I am really not understanding who in this country believes that the majority of illegal immigrants are going to stand up and say "Hola. Estoy aqui. Put me in the back of the line because I dont' want to live in America for free and live off of the LEGAL citizens anymore. Heck, I even want to pay back taxes!"
How many will actually 'fess up and how far will America be run into the ground if this bill ever passes?
If this goes through, it will cost us BIG TIME! Welcome to the United States of Mexico. Adios.
2007-06-15 03:07:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
On the other hand, the fence idea, THAT I support!
2007-06-15 03:08:04 · update #1
mmm...chocolate.
2007-06-15 03:14:33 · update #2
It makes no sense, that's the problem.
2007-06-15 03:11:30 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The only people this bill makes sense for is Congress. Congress has been woefully lax in demanding that the laws be enforced in this area. This new bill will be no exception. Call it the path of least resistance if you will. By bestowing legal status on illegals they do not have to address the root of the problem. Congress knows that the fence is not going to keep illegals out. They know that many who are here are also not going to come forward, pay fines and then get in the back of the line. They understand that new ID policies will not be followed and employers will not be held accountable anymore than they were under the last end all/be all measure from the eighties. Or has everyone forgotten about how the I-9 form was supposed to put an end to illegal employment? Face it, they are not going to enforce the law no matter what it is. This new bill is just a means to appear as though they are addressing the problem, while understanding full well that it will never be enforced and many of them will be out of Congress and no longer accountable when it all blows up.
Bert: The Heritage Foundation estimates that this bill will cost the American taxpayers no less than 100 billion over the next 10 years if it is passed. This idea that we are going to save money by making them legal is ridiculous and always has been. In answer to your statement, yes I am willing to spend billions removing lawbreakers from our society as opposed to spending billions to reward them for violating our laws. It is going to cost us either way, it is just a question of how best to spend our money. As to your second point. Absolutely! Drop them on the other side border in whatever their home country is and it truly is not our problem and never should have been in the first place.
2007-06-15 10:21:32 · answer #2 · answered by Bryan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cost of doing NOTHING is far greater, both monetarily and in human lives.
Removing exploitable illegal immigrants from our country by turning them into legal, tax paying citizens who wont be exploited is gonna be tough on the businesses which exploit them, but HEY thats the price of progress.
If we do NOTHING, nothing gets done. The same crap the US Border Patrol has dealt with for years will continue. We will still stop the ones crossing illegally, spending millions of dollars in the process just to run them out, when they can turn right around and do it again.
Are you willing to pay BILLIONS to track down, arrest and incarcerate an estimated 20 million people? Then deport them to countries which could never handle that many all at once? Do we just dump them at the border and say its not our problem anymore?
2007-06-15 10:15:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask McCain he is the Bills sponsor. Kennedy has said he will not support amnesty. Also ask Bush and the Republicans who voted for the bill when it had in it Amnesty. I think law breakers should go back to where they came from. The only reason Republicans are caving in to Bush pressure is that the Corporations want cheap labor they can exploit with low pay and no benefits. Corporations and the Republicans also want to flood the labor market and drive down the standard of living for all Americans.
2007-06-15 11:20:03 · answer #4 · answered by jl_jack09 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have come this far in your analysis of this boondogle, then you are obviously smart enough to have come to the conclusion that its only the ones inside the beltway who matter.
They will get this thing done and they really don't care how us citizens are affected.
Personally, I don't care what the illegals do, as long as they go away and quit coming here. But, yeah, I get your point that these people are not going to do something which will cost them money or their jobs, especailly when they can hold out and get it all for free later.
The biggest issue, in my mind, is that these legislators think (know) that they can pull something like this on us citizens and get away with it. They keep getting elected! They must be doing something right!
Throw them all out!
Note to Bert T: You sound like one of those who wrote the bill. "Do something, even if its wrong!" Is that your message? There are plenty of other things to be done before we start allowing every single illegal in this country to stay.
Compassion is fine, but on this scale, somebody has to be fiscally responsible.
2007-06-15 10:19:01 · answer #5 · answered by MIKE F. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes NO sense!
And I doubt any more than a small handful will come forward on their own... And even then, I doubt they'll actually pay anything--these are the poorest of the poor, remember--it would be extreme financial hardship to pay that penalty. (I think it's only in the bill so they can say it's not really amnesty, and that later they'll revise it to remove even those small punishments.) Sigh. I need chocolate.
2007-06-15 10:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course it will cost us . The only good thing that might come out of it is the honest working people will come forward and pay the fine , it is true a lot of these illegals simply want to support their family and would pay a fine to be legal . So after the good people come up and pay the fine , we can deport the worthless people that are taking advantage of the system with no exuses or border patrol going to jail for doing their job
2007-06-15 10:12:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not to mention the fact that I seriously doubt that there are many illegal immigratns that are walking around with the $5,000 penalty they have to pay.
2007-06-15 10:12:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It does not make any sense to me. I wonder if they have put out a version of the bill in Spanish. That one might make more sense. Donde Esta?
2007-06-15 10:12:53 · answer #9 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It doesnt make sense. Thats why its failing to garner support.
Vince
2007-06-15 10:15:04 · answer #10 · answered by vinny_says_relax 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's a "I don't know what to do about the problem and start over" bill
2007-06-15 10:12:19 · answer #11 · answered by golfengineer3 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋