Write your comment in the form below. Be sure to 'Preview' your comment to make sure that it will appear as you want it to.
You Are Replying To This Comment:
Citizenship
By Bruce
Mar 13th 2007
at 9:08 pm EDT
It takes five years to become a naturalized citizen, why should we let the wetbacks wait only two years. And the person who goes about it the legal way pays taxes those five years. they're not sending half their income to Mexico.
Guest workers; anybody that thinks that guest workers will go back to the getto from which they came after five years has got rocks in their head.
Illegal aliens aren't doing jobs that americans won't do, they're competing american jobs by working for less than an american would. the employer either pays cash or has one employee on the books for every four employees. That way his compensation insurance is less, if someone gets hurt he's the one on the books. That's why workmans compensation insurance is so high. The employer doesn't have to pay any benefits, if one of the employees gets sick it's off to the emergency room. That's why hospitals are closing their emergency rooms.
So instead of a short cut to citizenship we should send them back to where they came from so they can improve their homeland instead of screwing up ours.
You Are Commenting On This Post:
Where do Americans Stand on "Illegal" Immigration?
59% of Americans believe that, if an undocumented worker has lived and worked in the United States for two years, he/she should be given a chance for legal citizenship rather than be deported.
While this seems like a basic issue of human compassion and smart economics, the number is far higher than I would've guessed. Maybe underneath all that conservative mouth-frothing, Lou Dobbs's Nightly Nativism, and growing economic inequality, Americans have retained a little faith in the American dream.
Please remember that Campus Progress' terms of use do not allow promoting or endorsing any particular political party or candidate for office. Posts or comments that do this will be deleted.
!
Guest workers; anybody that thinks that guest workers will go back to the getto from which they came after five years has got rocks in their head.
Illegal aliens aren't doing jobs that americans won't do, they're competing american jobs by working for less than an american would. the employer either pays cash or has one employee on the books for every four employees. That way his compensation insurance is less, if someone gets hurt he's the one on the books. That's why workmans compensation insurance is so high. The employer doesn't have to pay any benefits, if one of the employees gets sick it's off to the emergency room. That's why hospitals are closing their emergency rooms.
So instead of a short cut to citizenship we should send them back to where they came from so they can improve their homeland instead of screwing up ours.