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Originally Posted by FibrillatorD
Gunnut, its not butting in line because they were never in line.
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Do you see what you're saying here? They were never in line. They didn't even bother with the line. So now we have 2 sets of rules? One for Mexico and one for the rest of the world?
How about this? Let's remove immigration restriction for a single country, say India. Any Indian who wants to come here can do so. No questions asked. We won't even bother with papers. Just come in and do whatever they want. We'll count them as "undocumented workers." After a while we'll bring them out of the shadows and give them a pathway to citizenship. Are you OK with that? All other countries need to wait for our immigration quota. Sit on the list and wait for a few years when their turn comes up. In fact, we'll make the wall so high and the door so narrow for Mexico that it's nearly impossible for anyone to come in from there. But we'll have an open-border policy with India. How do you like that?
India has 9 times the population of Mexico, I'm sure they can satisfy our need for labor.
Immigrants should have to earn their citizenship. Things earned are treasured. Things freely given away are taken for granted.
I'm not saying we don't let a single Mexican come over. I'm just saying I want them to go through the process. We need to secure the borders with high walls and armed patrols who have the authority to shoot people who taunt our border agents. We also need temperary worker's program. Mexicans should be able to go through a quick process to obtain a visa so they can work here. If they really like this place and want to stay longer, then apply to immigrate. Meanwhile, if they have kids here, the kids shouldn't be freely given citizenship. But the kids will be citizens upon the parents become citizens, and will be treated as native born citizens. If the parents just want to work here for a few years so they can retire in Mexico, I don't see the need to give their kids born here citizenships. They have no intention of being part of our nation.
Is that more clear?