Reply #65: They come here to work or to join their families. [View All]

[hunter]

Most of them have been here a long time.

Sure, there ought to be rules, but if you've been here for a few years working and paying taxes, or you are the dependent of someone who has, then we as a nation do have some obligation to you.

This nation has a vile history, continuing to this day, of treating immigrants as a disposable workforce, easily abused, and depressing the wages and working conditions of everyone, citizen or not. Raising minimum wages and enforcing labor laws would go a long way in solving the immigration problem. If immigrants can find good jobs and they are contributing to the economy there is no reason to exclude them. Citizens who have crappy low paying jobs have everything in common with immigrants who have similar jobs, and very little in common with the wealthy and politically powerful who have created these miserable conditions.

Some things the U.S.A. does to people are entirely obscene, such as denying legal immigrant status to kids who grew up here, attended school here, and don't have any real home but the U.S.A.

Just because other nations suck worse than we do doesn't make what we do right.