Presidential election, 2016

[Warren Dew]

(01-14-2017, 10:56 PM)Odin Wrote:

(01-14-2017, 10:12 AM)flbones too Wrote: 1 million immigrants coming annually is too many. We already have 300+ million people. We need to grow from natural increase now, not immigration. A max of 100,000 immigrants a year is enough. All illegal aliens should be deported, they're violating the law.

So lets be clear, here, you want American children to live in Mexican slums just because of the immigration status of their parents? What about people who were brought over as small children, have no memory of their home country, and see themselves as Americans? Do you want to send those back to a country they do not consider their own? Because that is what will happen by "deporting all illegal immigrants".

It's fine if you are concerned about illegal immigration, but mass deportations of people already here are not the answer.

Are Mexican slums really all that much worse than American slums?  Not that they would be all that likely to go back to a Mexican slum; typically, experience living in American and whatever English is learned here is worth a significant amount with respect to employment opportunities in the home country.

And the American children aren't being deported; they can always be placed with relatives here, or with someone else that will take care of them, if you really think location of birth determines morality with respect to their treatment.

As for people who were brought over as small children and see themselves as Americans, would that that were a typical case.  Even legal hispanic residents born here often have the attitude, "you celebrate Fourth of July, we celebrate Cinqo de Mayo, what's the difference?"  That's not seeing themselves as (U.S.) Americans.  And with multilingual schooling rapidly becoming the norm, they aren't even learning English in school any more; assimilation is getting further and further from the norm.

Forced mass deportation may not be the answer, but the status quo isn't either.