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President Bush reinserted himself into the divisive debate over immigration on Monday, speaking favorably of a stalled Senate compromise that would put a vast majority of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
I have been doing some thinking about this. If we had a choice of letting the 11 million current illegals stay under an amnesty program or deporting them and letting in 11 million legally which plan would benefit the US more?
I am of the opinion that we are better off with the current 11 million.
The current 11 millions mostly came here to work. As illegals the vast majority don't expect or hope for social welfare handouts. While of course some do some form of identity theft in order to get benefits, the vast majority don't. The ones here now work and send a huge amount of money back to Mexico. If we let them stay they can bring their families here and they will keep their money here. The ones who are here have a head start on learning English and the customs of America.
I don't think that many illegals are criminals in the sense of being bad people. They see work here that pays a much higher wage than in Mexico and they saw the easy border crossing and the de facto acceptance by the US government in letting them in and staying.
So rather than let in new immigrants who would immediately get government benefits and may come here with that in mind, I think the ones who are here should be alllowed to stay under rules of background checks, no criminal activity, etc.
And I think that in order to help American workers the newly legal immigrants should get equal government protection under the law so they get paid a minimum wage and are not abused by employers.
And we should seal the borders to new illegal immigration.
President Bush reinserted himself into the divisive debate over immigration on Monday, speaking favorably of a stalled Senate compromise that would put a vast majority of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
I have been doing some thinking about this. If we had a choice of letting the 11 million current illegals stay under an amnesty program or deporting them and letting in 11 million legally which plan would benefit the US more?
I am of the opinion that we are better off with the current 11 million.
The current 11 millions mostly came here to work. As illegals the vast majority don't expect or hope for social welfare handouts. While of course some do some form of identity theft in order to get benefits, the vast majority don't. The ones here now work and send a huge amount of money back to Mexico. If we let them stay they can bring their families here and they will keep their money here. The ones who are here have a head start on learning English and the customs of America.
I don't think that many illegals are criminals in the sense of being bad people. They see work here that pays a much higher wage than in Mexico and they saw the easy border crossing and the de facto acceptance by the US government in letting them in and staying.
So rather than let in new immigrants who would immediately get government benefits and may come here with that in mind, I think the ones who are here should be alllowed to stay under rules of background checks, no criminal activity, etc.
And I think that in order to help American workers the newly legal immigrants should get equal government protection under the law so they get paid a minimum wage and are not abused by employers.
And we should seal the borders to new illegal immigration.