JeanE,
It’s hard to know what you’re talking about, since you seem to mix “immigrants” with “illegal aliens” and I can’t see where you split the two disjoint sets.
What you have described, legalizing the illegals here, will destroy the United States. Destroy it, literally.
McCain refuses to back down from this, even today, and makes some silly claims that somehow the flow of iilegals could be stopped by having a border fence. That is just untrue, as we give tens of millions of tourist visas every year, and any number of those “tourists” could stay on their trip and become the next illegals. This would bring us back to the situation we are in, in no time, and the solution would be … legalize them?
I have not seen such a total disrespect for the sovereignty of the US and the rights of American citizens as you people seem to feel is “reasonable”. Psst: We don’t need illegal labor, and once we legalize them, they cost the same as Americans – thus drawing more illegals to fill the vacuum.
McCain refuses to support interior enforcement (which would be his job as President, not getting legislation passed that would legalize the illegals) and without interior enforcement of OUR laws, we will not have a US to talk about before long. Make no mistake, this is not hyperbole on my part, but a very serious issue that you and the rest of the McCain supporters like to shrug off without a thought.
This is exactly why I find McCain to be a danger to the very existence of our republic, and your explanation (along with the explanation I always hear out of McCain and his supporters) proves that nothing will change any of you. This is why, in addition to other issues, I have such huge problems with McCain in the Presidency. It is a suicide pact to elect him, plain and simple.
But, since you are defending McCain’s desire to open the US to the entire world, tell me, after you get your amnesty, and the fence is built, and then we find huge flows of illegals through visa overstays and temporary worker overstays and whatever other means they find to get here, what will be done about the next 20 million illegals that decide they have the right to live here? What are you going to do about them? Obviously, it can’t be what you just described as the solution for the 20 million we have now (plus the tens of millions of “family” that will have come along to keep them company), since that would just be an admission of the total capitulation of US sovereignty, but I’d like to know what you really think would be done. Seriously.
And, by the way, McCain is much more adamant about legalizing illegals than any of the other candidates. His campaign spokespeople are talking about legalizing the illegals today, on TV. I know that all of the potential candidates want to do the same, but McCain’s the only one stupid enough to keep saying it, and I consider it a mortal threat to our country. I don’t think you people realize how truly serious a situation this is because you talk about it as if it will be done and forgotten. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Frankly, the only hope for the US, at this point, is a deep recession that will drive the illegals out of the country (as the illegals are extremely mobile when they see a few bucks somewhere else), since we cannot count on the government to actually do its primary job and we cannot count on the GOP to defend the notion of US sovereignty.
This is all very sad.
