bradleybadly wrote:thegreekdog wrote:Because, really, immigrants help society... as we've seen in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Immigrants who are willing to enter this country legally and assimilate are helpful. Illegal immigrants who disrespect our borders, fly our flag upside down, tell us that we're on their land, and promise to shoot our police unless they get free entitlement money don't.
True enough, certainly...as long as you recognize that not all (nor, in my opinion, a majority...though I'll admit there are a large number) of the illegal immigrants take those offensive actions.
bradleybadly wrote:Hope I don't get banned
You've said nothing at all in this particular post that was worthy of even condemnation, never mind banning. It was a very good post, in my view, even though I don't wholly agree with you.
PLAYER57832 wrote:The problem then is kids. In that I think we need new solutions. Forcing parents to leave kids behind in conditions that are too often less than excellent, that too often wind up being far longer than parents initially intent. I propose a couple "out of the box" solutions. One is just to let the kids come here, be educated in our system, BUT require their parents to pay for that education. Because the workers are mostly low wage earners, it would be assessed as a tax that employers would pay. Part would be an extra payment, so that hiring someone not a citizen would cost an employer just a bit more (something like 25 cents and hour more for lower wage earners). I would require that anyone coming here have insurance. The minimum type of insurance would cover emergency care and transport back to the home country. Tied in with this, I can see creating hospitals just over the boarder specifically geared for this population, but that would have to come up more or less on its own. (insurance for coverage at those places would naturally be cheaper). In some cases, because kids not born here might not automatically get US citizenship, while they would absolutely learn US standards, citizenship requirements, etc just like any other child, there might be a program designed in conjunction with the Mexican government to "orient" the kids to Mexico and so forth. In other words, these kids would be equipped to be US-friendly citizens of Mexico or to become Mexican-friendly citizens of the US, depending. Neither country benefits by having a generation of kids who is not allowed to stay here, but is unable to live truly in Mexico.
Some pretty good ideas here.
