Immigration Debate - Johnston, RI

I support it. If we're going to circumvent our laws then I wont be arrested for anything right? What good are laws we can pick and choose? They are draining our resources. We need jobs for Americans
seeing as Washington saw fit to give most of ours away due to N.A.F.T.A.

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Sandra wrote:

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No enforcement of Immigration laws , no enforcement of civil rights laws . ARREST and DEPORT .

It's a travesty to think that a bird or a mouse can cross the border, but a hungry family can not. I respect our nations sovereignty and the need to keep terrorist out, but the Arizona law will simply result in ripping apart many hard working families trying to get ahead. Daddy goes out to work, and gets pulled over, and gets sent back to Mexico. What happens to the rest of the family. I think we all need to be hones and ask ourselves, had we been born in Mexico or Columbia wouldn't we try to cross the border and provide for our families. It's easy for us to say we'd immigrate legally..but unfortunately it's impossible for most to immigrate legally. What do you do when your little girl says...daddy I'm hungry, and there's no work in the village? The father is faced with the choice to steal for his child, or take a chance and cross the boarder and work for his family.

And if we don't open the boarders...who is going to pay for Social Security for all these baby boomers? Who is going to work in the nursing homes? All the baby boomers choose to use the pill, and our country is now aging like Japan and Europe. It's hard for the "only child" to pay for both his parents in the nursing home, and go to work and compete with India and China, etc. If we want to keep this country great, we need the cheap labor.

Vet wrote:

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No enforcement of Immigration laws , no enforcement of civil rights laws . ARREST and DEPORT .

It's not civil to split apart families, and send the bread winner back to Mexico. Isn't it time we took the intelligent approach, and fixed the immigration laws which make it nearly impossible for people to immigrate to America in the first place. We're not just talking about a handful of people...we're talking about millions of people.

Immigrants are fine as long as they are legal.