Is amnesty the answer to the millions of illegal immigrants in the US?

Answer 1

The answer to your question is no. No now, no tomorrow, no next week, no next month and no next year. If you allow amnesity for one, you've got to give it them all and that leads to it being taken advantage of and having our country filled with people standing there with their hands out saying: Let me in.
The hard truth is we need to cut off entry into this country at a certain rate. If you keep allowing all these foreigners in here who don't pay taxes and get free government money and get free health care and keep having more and more children to infiltrate this country then pretty soon you might as well just kick all the Americans out and hand over the country to the foreigners.
"Land of the free" has taken on a whole new meaning now days. Free government loans, free health care, free education, free this and free that. Meanwhile, Billy Joe and Betty Sue American can't afford to go to college and have to spend the rest of their lives working at McDonald's because they got passed over while some foreign kid gets his free ride all the way to whatever college he chooses. It's garbage and it needs to stop.
I don't believe any illegal foreigner deserves any free pass. There is enough of that going on everyday when Joe Law pretends not to notice illegal alien #2 until of course illegal alien #2 runs down a kid while intoxicated. Then. well oops he's not a citizen. What can we do? Well, gee you knew he was illegal and you knew he broke the law the last 12 times you stopped him, but now all you can say is oops?
If these illegals want to be part of this country, then they can sit in jail and be tried and go to prison or die just like an American criminal. If employer A hires Manny for .50 cents an hour and gets caught, then that employer must be registered just like a sex offender and if employer A violates the law a 2nd time he must pay a huge fine. If he thinks he's above the law, then his 3rd violation is no more business.
It's not about them coming here to take jobs others don't want. it's about them not following the rules like the rest of us.
If you want to live here so bad, stand in line and fill out the paperwork in ENGLISH, like every other immigrant.
I am so sick and tired of this subject and the inability of the
U.S. government to have the balls to say. We are finished messing with you. If you come here, you better expect to be punished. Forget the A.C.L.U. forget all that liberal garbage. If you break the law. You must be punished.

Answer 2

If you seperate "amnesty" out from the rest of the issue-it soesn't sound like a very good idea. Butplace it in context, its another matter.

Note that we've had amnesty programs before--notably in the late 1970s. The outcome--as far as those immigrants was concerned, was positive: they were mostly law-abiding, hard-wrking people, and many eventually went on to become good citizens.

But that example also shows why we MUST not just grant amnesty. At the time a "guest worker" program was proposed--and rejected. Which is why we now have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country.

For my part, I frankly don't care about the "humanitarian" rhetoric from one side or the "law-and-order" rhetoric from the other. That meaningless wrangle has paralyzed reform of the policies for years--and is the primary cause of why we are in this mess. I care about fixing the problem--and ONLY about that.

So--what will WORK?
First: we cannot realistically find and deport 12 million people. Nor can we realistically keep them from filtering back in if we could manage to deport them. Nor would it be in our best interest. These workers perform-as immigrants in America have always done--an important economic function by takiing low wage jobs as they learn and assimilate into American culture. Abruptly removing 12 million workers will bring economic chaos.

So: Amnesty-AND a guest worker program so that we DON'T have this same mess in another 20-30 years.

But "amnesty should not be a "blank check"--and it wasn't 30 years ago. It did not "grant automatic citizenship" but only what is now called "a path to citizenship." It was for a limited period only. And it did not extend to those illegal immigrants who had broken other laws.

Such an apporach will WORK. It won't satisfy everyone's ideological preferances (including mine, on some points). But so far, I've yet to hear anyWORKABLE alternatives.

Answer 3

"I want immigrant workers to come here LEGALLY and be paid HONEST wages, not kept as virtual slaves". That's preciselly what the so-called "amnesty" is all about. Because there is just not legal way for them to come here and be hired. They provide the workforce America need and they don't always make the lowest wages, I know some of them make 18 bucks an hour or so building houses, of course some American citizens would rather take a $9/hr job at walmart because they're inside an air-conditioned room and not under such an intensive kind of labor.

Answer 4

I just posted a similar question. As a retired Police Officer from the Ca. Az. Mexico border I am so mad. They came here illegally. This is just a subterfuge by the White House And the Senate to make us think they are doing something. The illegals are not going to come forward and pay a fine and do what the law requires. They will just keep doing what they are doing. For cripes sake they won't even register their cars. What makes the idiots inside the Beltway think they will register themselves. This will just increase the flow like it did last time.

Additional. The Tax Payers Union has documented that for every illegal family that is returned to nation of origin it saves the American taxpayer $18,000 a year in Government services.

Answer 5

NO! My grandparents came to this country legally, through Ellis island in 1912.
they learned English, spoke English and were Americans who just happened to speak with a French accent. They always said they were Americans. Nothing else. Just Americans!
They took the oath & the constution test and they became proud American Citizens! They left "The Old country." Behind them. I am proud to say that they did it that way!

Answer 6

In short, No. If you give amnesty to 20 Million Illegal aliens, you will have to do the same thing 20 years from now. it's like you are rewarding bad behavior.

Answer 7

only if you can obtain total control of the US border for the foreseeable future first

I do not support illegal immigration in any way shape or form, but I have to add that I think it is naive to think we can deport 20 million people, that is NEVER going to happen, the solution is to first do whatever is neceessary to prevent any further illegal immigration and then make these people US citizens.

I think this is the only realistic solution.

Answer 8

No...

End birthright citizenship for illegals who give birth
End free welfare
Taxpayers should not have to pay for illegals who use roads, hospitals, social services, clinics, schools, etc..
Punish job companies who high illegals, make them job companies fire them all..
Enforce visa rules... Almost all of the high jackers on 9/11 at expired visas..
Physicall secure our boarders, close them off, like the Americans have been saying for years..

We need to make them not want to be here..

Answer 9

No, didn't work with Reagan but got worse the same will happen with Dubya.

Answer 10

NOOOO send them home and let them come back when they do it legally. Why reward the law-breaker?