Si se puede si lo quiere...
On May 1st Mexicans on both sides of the Rio Grande are supposed to Boycott American businesses. They are trying to get blah to notice blah and incite change in blah.
Do I count? Technically I come from "illegal aliens". My great grandfather came over the river on a train during the Mexican-American war. He was 9 or so. On the other hand every relative i've known has been a citizen in good standing, with wuelita being the 1 exception.
Also, if they got rid of all the illegal immigrants I wouldn't be on that big green bus so really my consumer dollars aren't included in the point they're trying to make.
We'll see how it goes.
Sidebar: I grew up around these people and they are vastly more hardworking than anyone you'll ever meet, for the most part. As such, I am vaguely pro amnesty. Also Yolanda in McAllen makes the best tamales you'll ever have and Goddamn if she is here legally.
posted by Alfonso Lopez @ 9:20 AM
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I'm also pro-amnesty, but only because the bureaucratic red tape involved with "getting in legally" is ridiculous.
There's no practical reason why they shouldn't be here. The only solid counterargument I can find is that "they're breaking the law and the integrity of the law must be upheld." This is true, to an extent. I believe the immigrants' God-given, therefore inalienable, rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness trump the integrity of the law, which are man-made.
I've yet to hear a decent rebuttal to that.
So wait, do you think we should allow anyone who illegally comes over the border from here on out to automatically get citizenship? The red-tape is there and arguably ridiculous, but it, in it's own beffudled way, requires them to work, pay taxes, etc.
Crossing a river and sitting on welfare isn't an inalienable right. Even if the great part of them are here to make an honest living, we need some kind of seive and flow control, which is what the beuracracy is attempting to tract. Would that there was a better way, sure, but I don't think letting anyone in is the solution.
To say nothing of potential enemies to our country.
So wait, do you think we should allow anyone who illegally comes over the border from here on out to automatically get citizenship?
1) No and 2) that's a loaded question.
Obviously, you wouldn't want people who are simply looking to abuse welfare or commit crimes. "Anyone" is much too broad a term to use. Amnesty doesn't mean making the border competely open. Amnesty means forgiving those who have and doing something to make coming in legally easier and less bureaucratic and indicative of xenophobic undercurrents.
The red-tape is there and arguably ridiculous, but it, in it's own beffudled way, requires them to work, pay taxes, etc.
All citizens are required to work and pay taxes. Why should additional fees and logistical burdens be incurred? Immigrants have been and always will overwhelmingly be an asset to this country rather than a burden. There's no reason why acquiring citizenship has to be so difficult.
Crossing a river and sitting on welfare isn't an inalienable right.
Nor was it ever argued that it was.
Even if the great part of them are here to make an honest living, we need some kind of seive and flow control, which is what the beuracracy is attempting to tract.
That's a rather optimistic viewpoint, but I wouldn't give the government quite as much of the benefit of the doubt.
They have a responsibility, yes, but I question why they would want to regulate something that isn't even a real problem. Why even set arbitrary quotas on how many people from this or that country can become citizens? That number should not be arbitrary but instead should reflect how many citizens this country can support. The only people staging a vocal complaint to their presence, however, are the same people who sustain virtually no damages from the current amount of immigrants.
There is no practical basis for keeping them out.
Would that there was a better way, sure, but I don't think letting anyone in is the solution.
Solution to what problem, exactly? Save a handful of paranoid, xenophobic landowners in remote areas of Arizona and Texas, whose Quality of Life is negatively impacted by the immigrants?
To say nothing of potential enemies to our country.
Precisely why I'm waxing semantic over the term "anyone". If naturalization was an easier process, immigrants wouldn't have to come here illegally, allowing our resources to be reallocated such that we'd be more adept at keeping out potential enemies.
It would seem we agree.
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