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Originally Posted by BigDGeek
He's right, but I think his position on the issue is too soft for my liking.
The only "path" we should be discussing is the "path" back to these peoples' home countries.
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I agree with you BigDGeek, A lot of people on the facebook pages for local news media here in Houston as well as the local newspapers like the Chronicle, for example, take heat for saying that illegals should be sent home. There are a great number of Mexican-Americans in Texas that immigrated here the RIGHT and LEGAL way. I think too many people are making this an "Americans against Mexicans" fight when it should be an "Americans against Illegals from ALL countries" fight.
The waters get murky when illegals come here and have natural born children within our borders. Personally, I think the entire family should be deported, but then the child WAS born here so where do you draw the lines?
The biggest problem I have with this whole issue is that Washington has done NOTHING to protect our borders from the millions of illegal aliens that have crossed throughout the Southwest, yet they want to legalize 11 million people without fixing the problem that caused this mess in the first place.
I've heard the arguments that the illegal people come here and have a purpose, that they do the jobs that American's refuse to do. They work these manual labor jobs and get paid little to nothing to do it. What happens when those 11 million workers are legal residents and decide that minimum wages or less just aren't good enough anymore, after all, they're legal now and they don't have to settle for those types of jobs anymore.
What happens is they quit their jobs to look for better ones and our unemployment rates that are already extremely high gets higher and millions of agricultural, service, and construction jobs go un-maned and prices skyrocket, and millions more get on government benefits.
What happens to those millions of jobs that have been abandoned? Companies can either hire workers for living wages (fat chance) or they can import more illegal aliens to fill those spots. It's not too far out of a thought to imagine that 11 million MORE illegal aliens could replace the 11 million that became legal within a couple years time. After all, the government has still done NOTHING to secure our borders. Why should it? This problem hasn't affected the North East to the extent that it has the South West.
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