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Thread #90266   Message #1711950
Posted By: Bill D
06-Apr-06 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tancredo: Democrats' Best Friend
Subject: RE: BS: Tancredo: Democrats' Best Friend
We need an honest look at the immigration problem..legal AND illegal. Right now a lot of the arguments you see are emotionally driven and based on special interests...personal and organizational.

The fact is, although we DO need some specialized labor...seasonal and some otherwise....we do NOT need unlimited millions pouring into the country, draining medical & educational resources and creating demographic imbalances that will change the very structure of the laws, language, customs and economic relationships much faster and more unpredictably than we can accommodate.

   We need a fair, but controllable system for allowing seasonal labor, managed immigration, and reasonable green card regulation.

It is crazy to try to base a policy on some notions of 'political correctness'....or on unreliable statistics.

Far beyond the current security and contraband issues, we need to integrate immigrants (largely Hispanic at the moment) into the society under controlled conditions, NOT simply according to how many can crowd in. This means we have to have controls, awkward as it may be to enforce them.

   It upsets me to no end to see suggested policies based on various politician's ideas of what will get them re-elected!