The Great Immigration Divide
by Miguel Perez
I've been saying it for years: The only reason we can't fix our broken immigration system is because on the issue of illegal immigration, there is no middle ground. But maybe I've been part of the problem; maybe I, too, should move to the middle ground.
On one end of the political spectrum, you have those who oppose any kind of "amnesty" for the country's 12 million illegal immigrants, even if they pay all kinds of penalties and go through a waiting process of a dozen years t ...
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Posted by: Cheryl
Comment: #1
Mon May 12, 2008 11:42 AM
I have no problem at all with immigration in general. In fact, I truly believe that immigrants are "saving" us from our own folly in regards to our lack of reproducing. Many nations are below replacement rate; we aren't because we have immigrants.
Cultural diversity is a beautiful thing; a gift actually! (I do not refer here to false diversity--accepting sinful lifestyles as diversity is an insult to truth).
I do have a major problem with people immigrating and then refusing to become American; refusing to learn English after 5, 10, even 20 years in this country. I have a problem with those who wave the Mexican flag in marches about immigration. Can you imagine if Americans went to Mexico and waved the American flag all over? Can you imagine us doing that in any other nation, actually?
I have a problem with Mexicans who come down hard on fellow Mexicans who become American citizens. My wonderful neighbor became American this past year. Her relatives and friends called her a traitor and worse. She said she merely told them one thing, "I don't see any of you crawling
over the fence to get back to Mexico".
God bless her.
We need to be open to immigrants; we also need, however, to demand that this nation be respected, and to set a time limit for them to learn the language of this country. We need to quit printing everything in multiple languages! My gosh, the amount of money wasted on this could go toward funding some classes in basic conversational English and perhaps toss in some classes on what America is about?!
We perhaps also need to encourage the people of Mexico to fix their country? It will only be fixed when the people of that very resource rich nation rise up and demand changes. Fleeing solves nothing. America also does not need to become a "little Mexico" and suffer the same problems here as there!!
Just my 2 cents worth.
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Posted by: JosephS
Comment: #2
Wed May 7, 2008 4:39 PM
I agree that there should be a middle ground somewhere. But one problem persists, and that in my mind is that if amnesty or some sort of prolonged path to legalization is adopted, it makes no sense to maintain laws that prohibit entering the US without the US government's knowledge. Granting amnesty without rescinding the laws that make that amnesty necessary makes no sense. Without rescinding them, nothing has been accomplished. What the ramifications of that would be I have no clue.
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