The latest proposal from Congress is to make it a felony offense to provide ESL classes to undocumented immigrants, provide emergency medical services, or even give your friend a lift to the store if they aren't properly papered!
When people talk about birthright, drivers licenses, walls, amnesty, etc., what are they really saying?
Do they want all the millions of undocumented workers to stay or to go?
If they want them to go then they should say so.
But they never say that. They could deport everyone. They could raid hotels, fields, factories. They could stop every adult seen on a bicycle on cold workday mornings. They could pickup all the day laborers waiting on the designated corners that we all know.
Caravans of buses could be contracted and paid for by the Dept. of Homeland Security.
They could make them all go, or at least most of them.
So why don't they do it? Why don't they deport all the undocumented workers? WHY?!!!
Because, my friends, America's economy would be in a big crisis if all these workers left. These workers do essential jobs, their work is the foundation on which the rest of us thrive.
They even pay payroll taxes but will recieve no social security benefit, no refund and no credit. They pay state taxes and sales taxes, but have to endure mean and spiteful resentment of Americans for the minimal services they might use, even complaints that thier children go to school or might be able to pay local tuition rates at a college where they've been living and working for years.
So... let's be honest. Let's either deport all the millions of our neighbors whom we arrogantly label 'illegal aliens' as though they were creatures from outer space and not hard working people who we have depended on and who have contributed far more than they have recieved.
Let's either do that and deport them or else let's TREAT THEM WITH COMMON DECENCY AND RESPECT.
Deport them all now, or stop ALL THIS HYPOCRISY AND HARRASSMENT of immigrant workers. Give them thier papers, not because they need us but because we need them. And we need to stop ripping them off.
POLL QUESTION
Which is more worrisome:
EXAMPLE #1 NO VISA
OR
EXAMPLE #2 NO VISA