To Be Illegal OR Not To Be Illegal? Aliens That Is...
I’ll admit that I haven’t been following this immigration thing too closely, but what I have heard is pretty cut and dry. If you live here you should be here legally and if you’re not then you should be deported unless there is an extreme humanitarian reason why you came here illegally and even then you should be forced to undergo a legalization process.
The other thing that irritates me is when immigrants choose to speak a language other then English in public. I feel like if you reside in a country then you should speak their language. If you’re visiting that’s something entirely different. Residency should require some kind of English speaking criteria and training.
I have heard miscellaneous parts of conversations about how our economy depends on the illegal aliens that are here working. I even heard an analogy about how social security depends on them, because they pay into it but never take out of it because they’re illegal. That doesn’t tread water though, because they just take out of it in other ways and usually in more dramatic fashions. Someone has to pay the illegal aliens medical bills when they take the ambulance to the hospital so they don’t have to pay for the taxi cab and when the emergency room treats them, but they don’t pay. Of course, this is a generalization and is not limited only to illegal aliens, nor do all illegal aliens do this.
Someone even said that illegal aliens do the work that most American’s refuse to do. Even if that is true, it is not an excuse to forego the legal process of residency. This is pretty simple stuff and in today’s world it is even a matter of homeland security. Every single immigrant should undergo an intensive and exhaustive background investigation, regardless of their country of origin. We can’t afford to not protect our borders.
Is there a side to this that I haven’t heard of or that I am missing that might change my perspective?
The other thing that irritates me is when immigrants choose to speak a language other then English in public. I feel like if you reside in a country then you should speak their language. If you’re visiting that’s something entirely different. Residency should require some kind of English speaking criteria and training.
I have heard miscellaneous parts of conversations about how our economy depends on the illegal aliens that are here working. I even heard an analogy about how social security depends on them, because they pay into it but never take out of it because they’re illegal. That doesn’t tread water though, because they just take out of it in other ways and usually in more dramatic fashions. Someone has to pay the illegal aliens medical bills when they take the ambulance to the hospital so they don’t have to pay for the taxi cab and when the emergency room treats them, but they don’t pay. Of course, this is a generalization and is not limited only to illegal aliens, nor do all illegal aliens do this.
Someone even said that illegal aliens do the work that most American’s refuse to do. Even if that is true, it is not an excuse to forego the legal process of residency. This is pretty simple stuff and in today’s world it is even a matter of homeland security. Every single immigrant should undergo an intensive and exhaustive background investigation, regardless of their country of origin. We can’t afford to not protect our borders.
Is there a side to this that I haven’t heard of or that I am missing that might change my perspective?
posted by Troy at 6:21 PM
1 Comments:
Today it was announced that there has been a tenative bipartisan agreement reached on this issue that addresses both sides of this issue.
However, if this goes forward in it's present state it will be a compromise against law enforcement and no matter how nicely packaged it is, it still provides ammnesty.
True, we're a nation built on immigration, but there has to be a process. If we provide ammnesty for this law, what will stop the illegal immigrants from violating all the other laws of our nation? Violating the law at the time of immigration should be a huge red flag and automatic disqualification for immigration.
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