Immigration

The Immigration Debate isn't really a debate. It's generally just a contest to prove how nationalistic one can appear. I no longer respect Governor Napolitano after hearing her pander to the right on Late Edition with Wolf Biltzer.

This issue is so clear. Illegal immigration is merely a designation given to an occurrence. This does not reflect it's general merits, just its status under our current laws. Any true immigration reform will restructure the program so that poor people (whose economic status is assured by the neo-liberal policies of the global north and its organizations like the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF) are no longer seen as criminals. The criminals aren't the immigrants and they aren't those who employ foreigners for low wages. The criminals are the Americans who think they deserve better than other humans because they were born within an imaginary line.

There will always be immigration from poorer countries into their richer neighbors. Creation of a guest-worker program is criminal. It is wrong to put limits on how long someone can stay in one place. Someone comes in, works hard, starts a family and poof! they have to go "home". Disgusting. Requiring people to return to their countries of origin to apply for citizenship is criminal. Haitians not being recognized as refugees, while the much healthier, safer and richer Cubans being welcomed with open arms is criminal. Requiring those who are obviously extremely poor to pay $5,000 to be legalized is not only NOT AMNESTY, it's nonsensical, it ignores the root of the problem and is just asking for more "illegal" activity. Who will be able to pay that?

Go watch Karen, a twelve yr. old at Palomino Elementary School who had her broken-arm taped to her chest and fell on it scream in agony, because she is not of a correct status to go to a hospital. "§$& our government. Where on this earth is there a compassionate government that governs a country I can move to? Sadly nowhere. We as a nation are still quite a bit more compassionate than most places. We should fight to keep it that way.

Jon Kyl seems to have surprisingly changed his tune from wanting to put illegals in cages to pushing for a guest-worker program. The problem is, the only real change for him is that 2 years of being in a cage called "poor in America" will now be followed by a forced-removal from the country and placement in a cage called "poor in country other than and poorer than America".

The worst thing is that under this program no one will leave, and in 20 years we'll get an even more ridiculously inhumane bill vilifying the needy from a yet more plutocratic government.

Stop the war on the poor!

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