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Illegal’s breaking the law or personal integrity

I am just tired of sitting on the sidelines of this issue, "We stole the west from Mexico, and we atom bombed Japan, stole humans from Africa and sold them as slaves and still discriminate against them, we under pay minorities and women. How long are we going to hold a grudge and not fix the problem? What country has a clean record? Where are the native people of Mexico? Are they not a mixture of the Spanish conquers and the native people? Why should Israel give back land that they won after being attacked by people who invited them to settle there and then when the land became productive and the buildings built attacked them? Why is China still in Mongolia? It is a world wide attitude. Wars have and will happen until each person decides to live according to a set of rules that benefit everyone but do not favor any one group or person. Why are we looking for an excuse to cause friction instead of working within the law to find a solution?

The people we are talking about are human beings and they should be treated as such. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and as a personal obligation treat others with respect. Government actions do not excuse or justify personal action. What Mexico does is up to the leaders and the political process there, what we do is up to US. The United States is based on government of the people by the people and FOR the people. The senators and congressmen in Washington are also breaking the law by even considering amnesty or changing the law so it is easier for “those already here to become citizens”. Is this not aiding and abetting a person in the commission of a crime. The first rule is obeying the laws on the books now, and then work for a change.

If the government employees, meaning the elected officials, here are not doing what is right it is time to replace them that is our obligation as the rulers of this country. They, meaning the elected officials work for us.

Who is also breaking the law here are the ones getting across the boarder having to run from INS then continually demanding the rights when breaking the law, not paying taxes, asking for services and Spanish everything. Breaking the law twice, they are here illegally and demanding services is stealing from the law abiding citizens here.

Would we want every group who has been wronged to protest and shutdown for a day what they could what is the result? Anarchy! How about the plight of the middle aged European male? The workers strike in this country was to stop the exploitation of them and to better the conditions they worked in. They were here obeying the law and another person or company tried to exploit them.

The Mexican government does not want the west back they would loose billions of dollars in revenue from the workers here sending money across the boarder. Look at the conditions in Mexico, free enterprise built the west to what it is today and like in Israel after the work is done some people now say “Give it back”

Let’s fix NAFTA so should a farmer want to continue to use human labor over the investment of mechanical picking of crops (which is cheaper, mechanical, but the initial cost is higher) could move his farm to Mexico, be funded by the way of a loan in purchasing the machinery, or use the suggestion below. Yes the crops are only one part of the jobs that is being done by these people and we don’t want to do the job or pay for the cost of a citizen worker to do the job of cleaning the hotel room or working on a cruse ship. We should allow the workers to cross the boarder documented by the technology available for our national security at all times, have them work here. Setup a transportation system using a high speed train, paid for by both the users of the system, the employers and the countries involved. Leave their families in Mexico but enable them to return home each night, allowing the boarder to be secured and their families to remain in the country, culture, language and environment of there choice. I spent some time in Windsor, Ontario Canada and there were workers that crossed the boarder each day worked in the United States and came home each night. The distances may be greater but it is a chance to fix this problem. And protect the workers from exploitation keeps the factories where they are. I am sure that some of the employers do not want to document the workers to avoid the costs involved with taxes, work environment standards, exploitation, and other issues.

On the other side should they want to live here they should go through the process and integrate into the culture here. By saying that I do not imply to loose their heritage, that has never been an advantage to our or any country. Take the best of the people who come here and work with each other but do not form a little Japan, China, Russia or Mexico but be American’s and work for the enhancement of OUR country. Receiving and giving respect for the culture we are each from but agreeing to live by the laws that give each person an equal chance. Make the laws for immigration sensible with the obligation to truly live here. It should not take years to immigrate but the ones coming in to stay or even learn at our universities have to be ones who want to better the world not just lookout for me and my culture and beliefs.

There is a danger here that by so doing the wages would be lowered here. Or perhaps this is what welfare should be changed to as found on the Fox news of the day web site http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193761,00.html: "You should send all of the 13 million aliens home, then you take all of the welfare recipients who are taking a free check and make them do those jobs," said Jack Culberson, a retired Army colonel who attended a Pensacola rally. "It's as simple as that."

It is a catch 22, if we pass the law securing the boarder what is the cost.

We are all just trying to realize the American dream or is it a dream of all people?

The fix to this problem is the Golden Rule unmodified by the politically correct, greedy and selfish individuals or prejudice of the day.

posted by That "Guy" @ 2:15 PM