Originally posted by: Vonkhan
I donated ... and then I read his views on immigration. Now I'm pissed that I donated
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And what was the views you did not like?
"About the Immigration issue - I really hadn't given it much thought before I started campaigning. I was really surprised when person after person told me it was one of their biggest concerns. I think my stance was just that we should enforce existing laws, so it's not all that extreme."
I told a story here about how my employer got a tip that a number of our employees were hired using forged documents. My employer contacted the appropriate authorities and the illegal workers were caught and deported. I thought it was a worthwhile story to tell the people in my community. Here?s why:
I didn?t work where I do when this went down. It happened before I got there. When I started campaigning a few months ago the people in my community would ask me where I worked and I?d tell them. They?d start in on me as the guy who hires illegal immigrants and tell me that I got busted for it.
I asked the people at work about it and they told me the story. Considering my community?s feelings about this issue, I needed to make it perfectly clear what the story was so I put it on this site. Without the proper context, it makes it sound like I?m responsible for busting illegal immigrants or that I enjoy it. Nothing could be further from the truth, but for the people in my community it means something different.
Illegal immigration, and even *legal* immigration, exacts an unnecessary human cost. Our immigration laws desperately need fixing.
As the Baby Boomers retire we are going to need more people to work in this country. After 2010, a huge swath of workers and middle management will begin to disappear from the U.S. workforce. The number of new workers coming onto the job market will fall below the job creation capacities of U.S. companies.
We need immigration. It just needs to be legal immigration and that?s not something we can fix at the state level. I encourage you to contact Congressman Dennis Moore about the need to reform our national immigration laws.
