Are you in favor or against immigration reform (amnesty)?

Answer 1

Against amnesty! There is a legal way to come to this country and everyone should follow the same rules.
Secure the borders, pass the fair tax and watch the illegals leave.

Answer 2

What I am in favor of and what I call reform is actually stopping the problem. NEITHER Bush's bill or the STRIVE act go there at all. BOTH want the new numbers on top, while glossing over the unimpeded stream still coming illegally.

Our schools are failing and our hospitals are closing and our insurance premiums are sky rocketing.

What about the rights of the people who BELONG here?

Where is that visa exit tracking system requirement as a trigger?

Why doesn't EITHER bill fund the full wall voted in overwhelmingly before the elections?

Where are the funds for more immigration judges?

Where is the citizen suit provision allowing citizens to force the government to enforce a law they want to enforce just about as much as environmental laws (where citizen suit provisions have been in laws now for decades.)

Not only is the government not building trust, it is eroding any hope in trust we might have had.

The rest, after major screening, NO twice illegal or gang members, is a matter of numbers. How will FAMILY of legalized immigrants not perpetuate the failure of our impacted schools? If Bush's family limit are adopted (and I think that is long overdue), how could the additional guest workers not be a problem? I agree that if they can't bring family and it is enforced, and if their employers must supply insurance, it would be better. However, as soon as Kennedy and unions throw that out the window, it is unworkable. Also, we need prevailing wage requirements so they don't undermine those here.

The status quo is not ok, and this adds more problems on top of it.

They aren't trying for a real solution. They are each trying to color a way to 'sell' their particular point, be it amnesty or slave labor. They are right that to us border security types it is really a numbers game once the inflow is solved, but they are treating us like idiots in what they are doing to pretend they have solved it.

And why is the fact that Mexico doesn't want the fence more important than the fact that Americans do want it?

Answer 3

I am in favor of a selective amnesty. "Enforcing the current laws" without any type of solution to the current people inside will only bring an even larger wave of illegal immigrants. Strict restrictions have proven to be a failure throughout the history of the country. The solution is in:

1) Securing the border and enforcing our laws
2) Use an eliminating process to keep only the illegal immigrants who pass certain standards, and legalize them.
3) Improve the current broken immigration system and reform it so that it is easier for immigrants to come into the country, while making sure that most of them will eventually return.

From the American point of view, the just thing to do is to enforce our laws and punish criminals. But the right thing to do is not always the most convenient for the country. We must do something that will make us move forward and maybe create a little guilt inside us, instead of feeling a sense of justice and be a failing nation.

Answer 4

i assume which you're utilising the term "immigration reform" as a euphemism for amnesty? that's deceptive, yet i'm going to respond to you besides. John McCain performs the two sides of the project on account that's an election 365 days. maximum folk from his state are against amnesty, so he's hoping to fool adequate of them to get interior the direction of the widely used and the election. i'm uncertain that George W Bush ever claimed to be against amnesty, so I have no concept why you assert he performed the two sides of the project. Reagan i don't comprehend approximately, yet i don't remember him ever taking important action against illegals. i'm hoping this solutions your question. do you comprehend what the fallacy of equivocation is? you're utilising the be conscious "conservative" to point many distinctive issues, yet glossing over which meaning is meant at any given time. the shown fact which you associate the be conscious "conservative" with a guy like W, who tried amnesty, would not recommend that maximum genuine conservatives are in want of amnesty, or maybe pretend to be. Amnesty is inherently unconservative, because of fact it might stress a radical substitute on society. The be conscious conservative is derived from the inspiration verb "to shelter." So what does amnesty shelter? are you able to respond to that?

Answer 5

In Favor.. Amnesty is not a reward, it is a pardon..
The violators did not have intent to break the law, they were compelled by their challenging duties to sustain their poor families in an ailing economy..
Illegal immigrants do not intend to burden the taxpayers, they would love to be productive members of a growing society.
If God can forgive us our trespasses we should be willing to forgive our trespassers..
Pardoning them helps them pay income tax which they are accused of avoiding..
Legalizing them saves the country's wealth being used to deport them and keep them away..
They are hard workers, they do not choose the jobs they come accross or demand better pay for those jobs..

Answer 6

I'm against amnesty. We tried this already in the 80's with Reagan, it didn't work. We have an even bigger problem now than we did then.

I wouldn't mind a guest worker program....... BUT the borders need to be sealed first and the government needs to prove that they are serious about supporting our immigration laws before we enact a worker program.

Answer 7

Against.

Answer 8

I am in favor of immigration reform.. LEGAL immigration reform.. but against illegal immigration (and against amnesty), I don't think people are taking into account all of the free programs our tax dollars are used to pay for illegals (food stamps, WIC, HUD, medical bill spin downs, Medicaid. etc..) but they never pay any taxes to help fund them.. who loses? WE do.

Answer 9

I am against amnesty for the illegal aliens....unless we're going to offer amnesty for the legal citizens of our own country who've commited crimes...and we're obviously not! We can't even get amnesty for the border patrol men who were just doing their jobs and are now imprisoned.

Answer 10

First of all, your question is a misnomer.
"Amnesty" has nothing to do with "immigration reform".

Amnesty has nothing to do with "immigration" at all, and never should have been applied to illegal aliens in the first place.

No illegal alien in the USA should ever be allowed to remain on US soil, scott free after violating numerous US federal laws, and state laws, by entering the USA illegally, living in the USA illegally, working in the USA illegally, using false IDs, working for cash and not paying income taxes, or using stolen social security numbers (a FELONY) to work illegally, using forged papers, fraudulently applying for public services with false information and false IDs etc...... in addition many of whom commit other crimes, including prostitution, drug smuggling, drug dealing, theft, burglary, car theft, defacing property, trespassing, rape, assault, murder, child molestation, credit card fraud, etc.....

I am against any kind of "amnesty", no matter what they call it.
CRIMINALS should never be rewarded for committing CRIMES.