Legal Immigration

As of Tuesday, July 10, 2012

It is odd to me that some people, no matter how many times they are told, just cannot get it through their heads that conservatives, including Republicans, are pro legal immigration.

I have never heard a single one of my conservative friends say anything else. They feel many people who come here illegally are often unskilled, needy and a burden to our social safety nets. Can you say Arizona?

They feel that illegals often do not always share American values and are here to take advantage of our easy-to-circumvent laws. They do know that the legal immigration system that they support is set up to help America as well as the immigrants coming here legally. The only reason to say anything else is for political gain and to divide this country. I say shame on those people.

It might help if we did not use the phrase “illegal immigrants,” as that’s an oxymoron when it is “breaking and entering immigration.”

In fairness to my liberal friends, I should point out many, if not most, of them also want legal immigration.

An old Chinese proverb says, “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

Dick Korn

Pinehurst

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The_AnonymusProfit 10 months, 1 week ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN

MikeNC 10 months, 1 week ago

Every four years, illegal immigration is a campaign trail issue, followed by the next three years, of the campaign trail issue, to no where. We do need to provide an amnesty route for illegals already here, because Washington has allowed this influx of anywhere between 8 to as high as 20 million illegals. Heck they can't even get a straight number, because the people are ILLEGAL. But we also need to secure our borders, once this amnesty provision is implemented. And call it the "end of the trail." Diane

DaveyNC 10 months, 1 week ago

Well said. Legal immigration is a necessity for a healthy country. Illegal immigration, not so much.

bufordsplay 10 months, 1 week ago

Andrew Sobiero recently remarked that iIlegal Aliens have a "Moral" right to be here. Sorry Mr. Sobiero but it is WE , the legal citizens of this country who have a "Moral" right to decide who comes here and who does not and any other system is anarchy. Thank God those who share Mr. Sobiero's views are not in charge.......Oh wait, they are....yikes!

fugitiveguy 10 months, 1 week ago

"It is odd to me that some people, no matter how many times they are told, just cannot get it through their heads that conservatives, including Republicans, are pro legal immigration."

Liberals know this, they also know that supporting voter ID has nothing to do with keeping black people from voting, they also know that conservatives don't want dirty air or water, they also know that we don't want actual poor people, old people and little children to do without food or medical care. Its their oldest and most effective trick in the book to keep certain voting blocks to pull the lever for them. Their arguments against so many conservative principles ae so nonsensical and unconvincing all thats left is to demonize the opposition. They like to label us as wingnuts, radicals and extreme. Any regular reader of these threads or the most popular liberal blogs would dispel that notion out of hand. How does one have a dialogue with those who so often stoop to such heinous tactics?

fugitiveguy 10 months, 1 week ago

"Andrew Sobiero recently remarked that iIlegal Aliens have a "Moral" right to be here."

I too was once young and I suppose I thought I had it all figured out too. Once he has had to support himself and endure the pressures of a life without the parental safety net my guess is he may see things slightly differently. Also spending a few months or so living and working in one of the besieged border towns might be an eye opener for him.

JimRussell44 10 months, 1 week ago

In light of the fact that we "Americans" came to this country and took it from those who were already here, I find the comments made by bufordsplay to be ironic.

Courseaire 10 months, 1 week ago

But then who am I to get to cut my lawn at a cut rate price?

fugitiveguy 10 months, 1 week ago

"In light of the fact that we "Americans" came to this country and took it from those who were already here, I find the comments made by bufordsplay to be ironic."

Thats one way to look at it. I look at it this way, I came here in 1963. I have taken nothing from those who were already here. I suppose this is true for anyone who is alive today. It seems silly that this point keeps coming up with regard to the situation of illegal immigration. Similarly, I have no guilt regarding slavery. All those who enslaved are long dead, all those who were enslaved are long dead. Its a sad chapter in our national history except for the fact that we long ago as a society put a stop to it.

MarkinMiami 10 months, 1 week ago

I'm Republican and fully support legal immigration. Legal immigrants are as pro America as all of us. My ex came over from Jamaica LEGALLY and busted her ass to get through nursing school all while having a child and dealing with a marriage. She has always stated that if you can't make it in America then you're either lazy are just aren't trying hard enough.

Bflat 10 months, 1 week ago

There are those in my family that were already here before anyone "came over" and there are some that came over from England. At that time there were not laws to prevent illegal immigration into this country. Go ahead and look it up. I'll wait. While you're at it, look up "Land Grants." Some in my family still own land that goes all the way back to that time, handed down through generations.

cantstandya 10 months, 1 week ago

I'm assuming not many of you that are commenting are in the construction industry,or if you are you own a company that hires "Immigrants from our southern neighbors" or you are retired and have no reason to be mindful of how many come here,legal or not,we used to have laws that limited number of any immigrants,and I have friend that did wait for years and through much exspense to gain citizanship,while you advocate for them and request we research info you might try doing some yourself,they also have brought gang activity throughout the areas they take up in,many are in the drug trade and illegal document business,many avoid our taxes through many of those false documents,and going back if one feels need to do so will show that when we have laws that are put in place to protect our borders those laws should be enforced until they are changed,so far that has not taken place,only Obama has the arrogance to re write our laws to pander for votes,if you all care to hand over this country so be it,myself I will protest their entry and amnesty in any manner in which I can,our country is overran with these illegals who are being allowed to stay yet my tax dollars are being taken to fund a immigration control agency that has it's hands tied by politicians and advocates,I feel no sympathy for any illegals who stand in our streets making demand and professing of their illegal entry here and telling us they will not leave,this article has the stench of another advocate offering up that which is not theirs to give.