Any opinions about Bush's boarder  closing and new policies? Do illegals have rights?
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If we had had stricter polices regarding illegal and Legal aliens. 911 would have never happened. Long past due. Rights should be uniform for all illegals, whether they walk swim fly or drive to our Country. Try going to one of the other Countries and mass assemble in the streets demanding rights to a Country to which you are not a Citizen. How many of their Family members have perished to preserve our freedom or build this country?  You will find yourself put away in a cell, naked with about 50 others. \nAlso the boycott, was ridiculous! They were acting like terrorist! Demanding that we give them rights because, "they broke the Law". The world has gone insane!
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All we need are national guard on the boarder till more boarder agents are employed. However the only people that can put them there are the Govenors of each state or Bush. Call your Govenors and tell them what you think of this.\n\nI don't give a damn how poor Mexico is, It is not our problem. Mexico is getting bashes because they have been the most vocal and militant on the issue. And because they are swarming our boarders at over 8,000 per day. Most other countries are now using that boarder as well. 8 chinese were caught a week back. Our northern boarders are not as wide open. All illegal aliens need to go home.\n\n The definition of domestic terrorism from the US Code \nUS Code 802, Section 2331 Read sction 5 \nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002331----000-.html \n\n\nTITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 113B > § 2331 Prev | Next \n\n§ 2331. Definitions \n\n\nRelease date: 2005-08-03 \n\nAs used in this chapter \n(1) the term international terrorism means activities that \n(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; \n(B) appear to be intended \n(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; \n(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or \n(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and \n(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum; \n(2) the term national of the United States has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; \n(3) the term person means any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property; \n(4) the term act of war means any act occurring in the course of \n(A) declared war; \n(B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or \n(C) armed conflict between military forces of any origin; and \n\nTHIS SECTION \n\n(5) the term domestic terrorism means activities that \n(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; \n(B) appear to be intended \n(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; \n(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or \n(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and \n(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.\n \nhttp://www.alipac.us/
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I think it is a Karl Rove-esque political move by the bigoted wing of the Republican party (I'm glad that Mr. Bush does not belong to it frankly--one has to give credit where credit is due) to galvanize the support of a bunch of xenophobes.  I think it is legitimate for Americans, in particular the American lower and middle classes, to be concerned with the economic effect of illegal immigration, and I think that the Democratic party would--if it were in power--put forth a saner, more humane immigration policy that would allow for more guest-worker visas to be extended (to reflect the incredibly high demand for low-wage workers in the US), and at the same time secure the border.  But the rhetoric of the Republicans (in particular) is off-putting, callous, and contemptible.  I cannot, for the life of me, understand how they dare call themselves compassionate conservatives, when many of them are anything but compassionate.  The tragedy is that their ancestors came to the US--in all likelihood--during periods in which immigration policy was laxer, and it wasn't almost necessary to be a PhD student or a high-wage worker to come here legally.  And, of course, in some cases, their ancestors came here illegally.
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Shutting the door? Nah. Its Bush after all. \n\nReason why it may remain open is because illegal immigrants provide a lot to the American economy and the government knows that. Hence why it would never close. Sure, they may be taking jobs away from honest Americans, but all the companies care is that they are also cheap labour.\n\nIf US really wanted to shut the "open" door for "terrorists", they would restrict the flights that come into the US itself.
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I just wanted to let you know i LOVED your answer to jljack09 regarding President Bush and what was illegal or not illegal.  By far the best answer although Im sure he wont pick it for best answer.  Good job.
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jonboy_44(Above)-Did You Take Your MEDS Today??\n\nThis Is A NATION With LAWS-THAT IS The REALITY\nThis NATION Of LAWS Has BORDERS\nIt Dont MATTER HOW It Got To Be That Way\nTHAT Is The Way It Is\nThe INDIANs, The BUFFALOs, The WARs, The ESKIMOEs,\nIT DONT MATTER-Thats The WAY It IS\n\nYou Have The RIGHT To Be Here If \n1:You Were BORN Here\n2:You Take The Basic Nessesary Steps To Apply For A VISA And Then CITIZENSHIP And Are APPROVED\nTHAT Is The LAW In THIS NATION\nIF EITHER 1 or 2 Of The ABOVE Are In Fact TRUE\nThen You Are A CITIZEN Of This Nation\nAnd You Have A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT To Be Here\n\nTHATS IT-THATS ALL-There Are NO More Arguements About The RIGHT To Be Here In This NATION Of LAWS\n\nILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Have No Constitutional Rights\n\nYou CANNOT "STEAL" The RIGHT To Be Here As You CANNOT STEAL ANY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS\nIf You DO, You Are A FELON\nYouve BROKEN FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS\nIf You VIOLATE The FEDERAL LAWS Of A NATION, You Are A CRIMINAL\n\nIts THAT SIMPLE \nIf You Break Into A House To Steal Property, That Is An ILLEGAL ACTION, With A PENALTY If You Are Caught \nIf You SNEAK Across The BORDER Of A NATION To STEAL The RIGHT To Be There, That Is An ILLEGAL ACTION, With A PENALTY If You Are Caught\n\nILLEGAL ALIENS in America are here only because they are GUILTY of CRIMINAL VIOLATION  of our FEDERAL LAWS, Jumping our borders and living in a shadowy underground economy.\n\n They are morally culpable for shoving aside those who adhere to the law and enter these United States in orderly and Legal Fashion.\n \nSince when do criminals and cheaters receive pride of place for the blessings of liberty, over those honestly, earnestly and faithfully seeking to become American citizens? \n\nPresident Bush has called for a reasonable and civil debate over the issues of border security and immigration reform. But the American people understand there can be no responsible immigration reform UNTIL OUR BORDERS ARE SECURE.\n \n“Guest worker” amnesty programs ARE NOT a part of border security. Amnesty is not the answer. To grant amnesty to these trespassers is to say "You crossed our borders ILLEGALLY, You BROKE OUR LAWS and now we are REWARDING you with U.S. Citizenship -- Congratulations!" \n\nThis is unacceptable.
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Key provisions of the Senate's main immigration bill would create a "gold card" program for illegal immigrants who entered the United States before Jan. 4, 2004, and create a guest worker program to bring in more foreign laborers, according to Senate Judiciary Committee staff members.\n\nThe committee is to begin debating the measure Wednesday under a three-week timetable aimed at producing a final version for the full Senate by March 27.\n\nSponsored by the committee chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the legislation is designed to strike a middle course between a bill passed by the House that calls for tougher immigration enforcement and the wishes of pro-immigration advocates who call for permanent legal status -- and eventual citizenship -- for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.\n\nPresident Bush, defying objections from conservatives, has called for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws and the creation of a temporary guest worker program to ensure a steady source of labor for U.S. businesses. Under Bush's plan, qualified workers, including residents now living here illegally, could stay in jobs for up to six years, then would be required to return home.In a move to build support for Bush's guest worker amnesty plan, administration officials talked about how they would actually implement the program. Jaws dropped as the administration reps explained the centerpiece of the program, a "Gold Card" that would enable illegal aliens to enter the U.S. at will, and work at any job with no labor market or other tests needed but would deny them citizenship. "Gold Card" would be valid forever, similar to current "Green Cards" but illegal aliens holding a "Gold Card" would not be able to adjust their status through naturalization.
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What an informative article...but I am already against illegals in our country so this only reinforces not changes my stance.\n\nthanks!
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Your link drives to an add for a company that collects "a small fee" to send mail. Isn't this against the policies for Yahoo! Answers?\n\nRevised: Keep in mind that President Bush directs policy (he asked for Congress to do something about immigration in his State of the Union Address), but the people who are considering the new laws are your Senators and Representatives. These are the best recipients for any letters you wish to write at this time. Congress will take up the question again after their break having failed to get a law passed on Friday, April 7, as they had hoped. Any letters you write to them now are much more likely to get noticed!
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How can anyone think that having ID cards is a good idea.  Illegal or legal,  Has anything put forth by this administration actually worked? Saved us money? Where's the budget surplus now?  Illegal immigrants a probably the safesegment of the working poor in America right now.  We don't know who they are, they have no phone records.  No property and trackable income.  \n\nDo you think the National Guard will actually be effective in guarding our borders.   The only thing I know is a lot of nobid contracts are going to be given to build fences that wont ever be finished.  \n\nWhat a joke this administration has turned our free thinking?, capatalistic?, Country? into.   We are not any of those anymore!
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If it goes through, I just don't think the rules will be enforced.  \n\nWhy should we think that the illegals will step forward and get this national i.d. card and pay fines and taxes?  They have not respected our laws thus far, so I don't see why they would start now.  \n\nOh, and how can the illegals prove if they have been here illegally for 2, 5, 10 years or whatever.  It's ridiculous!\n\nAs far as border security, I think it's a Band-Aid.\n\nI have been a Bush supporter forever...but here is where we part ways.
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I think it is great. I think 5 years is more than enough time for illegals to get their things in order and gain citizenship or leave. It's not because I think we are better than them. It's because I live in Northwest-Arkansas. And for those of you who don't know. There is a sign on the US side of the Mexican border that says "Come to Northwest-Arkansas for work" Well, that's great...because half of the people I know...can't get jobs, because illegals are taking them. How is that fair? This is the first right thing that Bush has done. Why protest it? I DO believe that illegal immigrants should have the right to the American Dream, if they gain citizenship. But when you think about it, The money that is taken out of your weekly paycheck, that is supposed to go to the Social Security Fund, (to help you and your family out later on in life) is paying for their healthcare and their housing in some cases. So, tell me, how is it fair that the people who are citizens, get to pay for the illegal immigrants' needs and get nothing in return. Do you think  there will be any money left, when it is your turn to need the Social Security money?
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I recently read this article in the Chicago Sun Times.  It is both enlightening and scary.  I am living overseas temporarily, but I often wonder what I'll return to when I do come home.  The US is not what it used to be.  Here's the article:\n\nNo easy answers on immigration conundrum \nApril 9, 2006 \nBY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  \n \nHere's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork. \nGo ahead, try it. In Michelle Malkin's book Invasion, she recounts the tale of two fellows who in August 2001 pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in search of fake ID from the illegal-alien assistance network that hangs around there. Luis Martinez-Flores, who'd been living here illegally since 1994, took them along to the local DMV, supplied them with a fake address and falsely certified they lived there. The very next day, the two guys returned with two pals of their own, and used their own brand-new state ID on which the ink was not yet dry to obtain in turn brand-new state ID for their buddies. A couple of weeks later, all four of them used their Virginia ID to board American Airlines Flight 77 at Dulles Airport and plowed it into the Pentagon. \nThink about that. From undocumented illegal alien in the 7-Eleven parking lot to lawful resident of the State of Virginia in just a couple of hours. Wow. Say what you like about Luis Martinez-Flores, but he runs one efficient operation. \nBy comparison, say you've got two kids under 5, and you'd like to bring over a nice English nanny to look after them. Name of Mary Poppins. Good references, impeccable character. If you apply now, there's a sporting chance the process may be completed before your children's children are in college. \nGiven that the new immigration "compromise" bill retrospectively approves all the millions of people who've been through the super-efficient Luis Martinez-Flores immigration system but without doing anything to improve the sclerotic U.S. government immigration system, maybe it would be better just to subcontract the entire operation to Senor Martinez-Flores and his colleagues. It would certainly be cheaper. The extensive Undocumented American support network manages to run it out of the back of the car from a parking lot without a lot of air-conditioned offices full of lifetime employees on government pensions, and given that the net result is exactly the same people who'd be living here anyway, why not go with the lowball bid? Legal immigrants to the United States can only envy the swift efficient service Messrs. Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar received outside that 7-Eleven. \nAll developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." True. They don't stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you're an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what's supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like
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Bush and Pelosi have been discussing 'comprehensive reform', read, 'you give me guest workers and I'll give you amnesty'.  However, Homeland Security has said processing just the illegals here under the Senate Bill would create a 10 year back log.  At first blush that isn't good news for anyone legally immigrating.  However, Gates also immediately began pushing for skilled workers, and he has both clout and celebrity value.\n\nThe adminstration seems to be jumping on immigration as the only area where there may not be gridlock with the new Congress.  Question is how all of the populist Democrats who ran on border security to defeat Republicans will vote.
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there was some mexican guy on here about a week ago crying that  home depot and walmart stores in mexico caused his family business to shut down so that's why he came here illegally and no i didn't know that mexico protects people from all those places i will look into that but they cant buy property right or have anything to do with any government office and they cant be there illegally right?  i also know that mexico harbors criminals did you know we let people come here legally too ?
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Bush is trying to reestablish his approval ratings on behalf of his fellow Republicans who will be up for election this November.  The Republicans are concerned that they are losing their political base, so they will make overtures like this to at least act like they are serious about curtailing immigration (which is an important conservative position).  Truth is, they are not serious about immigration, and even placing the National Guard there won't stop it.\n\nIf they want to stop illegal immigration, then all they have to do is put of a few employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants behind bars.  This would have the immediate effect of employers refusing to hire illegal immigrants, and effectively shut down the reason they come here.  But it is pretty clear they won't do that either because illegal immigrants make up too much of the work force, and a drastic shut down like that would be bad for business.\n\nWhy not guard the Canadian border?  Because there are far fewer immigrants that come over the Canadian border.
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bush is not going to pass any amnesty law. the only thing that was said about it, is they are talking about guest workers visa. and no we do not need or have to learn Spanish. this is America, they need to learn English.