Think About it. Immigration Reform. Everyone should be for it. As well as I can tell from the news, nobody is talking about reform, only what to do with the folks who have entered the country and are living here without documentation. It seems that we are really only discussing how to pretend they aren’t illegal aliens while providing a “path to citizenship”. The real question is whether we should provide amnesty every time permanent visitors are here long enough to create family and business relationships for which deportation would cause great inconvenience.
The last time we tried Reform, it was amnesty coupled with plans for closing borders and preventing hiring with fines for employers, and you may have noticed it just didn’t work as planned. It was 1986. No. I am not opposed to welcoming people from elsewhere in the world travelling to a place where there is opportunity for improvement in their lives. That’s how we or our forbearers got here. My choice would be open borders. If there is opportunity here, they will come. If not there will be no desire to sneak in. My anecdotal experience is witnessing families living in small quarters, doing what was needed to prosper independent of government aid while building lives and businesses with justifiable pride.
Yes. I do understand the problem of potentially creating an even larger group of dependents on government services. That’s one of the problems with the laws establishing the government as My Brothers Keeper . However, Immigration Reform is necessary. While there are reportedly 11 million undocumented residents here from other geographic areas, did you know there are currently more than 4 million people legally waiting for green cards? Some of these patient legal applicants have lived here for years, some investing money in business to prove their worthiness. Here is where we need Immigration Reform. Think About it.