Immigration Control
Hello and welcome. The purpose of "Immigration Control" is to offer an opportunity for lively discussion on the subject of immigration. Various areas on the subject will be posted and you will be able to reply, pro or con. Please, no foul language or flaming other posters. If you have an article you've written or found elsewhere you want posted please email it to: mvl270@yahoo.com Immigration Control is a production of Moe Lauzier's Issues of the Day.Friday, April 21, 2006
Different comments on Immigration Control
Professor Walter Williams:
"(Columnist) Thomas Sowell...questions calling for "guest worker" status for people who, because they weren't invited, are not guests at all but gate-crashers. Sowell argues that the more substantive arguments for flaunting our immigration laws are just as phony. How about the argument that 'We can't catch all the illegals'? That's true, but should we apply that principle to other illegal acts? For example, we can't catch every rapist or burglar, but does it follow that we shouldn't try?"
Ann Coulter
CNS News earlier this week:
Wes Vernon of Renew America
"The American people have made it plain they want our borders protected. . . . One organizationis urging each citizen to send one brick to Congress with a message to start building a wall on the border. One can imagine the message getting through if lawmakers offices receive thousands of bricks."
Columnist Thomas Sowell:
"If the Republicans wimp out (on the illegal immigration issue), that could so demoralize their base that Republican turnout in the fall elections could decline to the point where Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives."
James E. Richards, Reno Gazette-Journal, April 20, 2006
"(Columnist) Thomas Sowell...questions calling for "guest worker" status for people who, because they weren't invited, are not guests at all but gate-crashers. Sowell argues that the more substantive arguments for flaunting our immigration laws are just as phony. How about the argument that 'We can't catch all the illegals'? That's true, but should we apply that principle to other illegal acts? For example, we can't catch every rapist or burglar, but does it follow that we shouldn't try?"
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Ann Coulter
"Try showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing: 'I've seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and ballots into my native language? Thanks!' They would laugh you out of the country."
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CNS News earlier this week:
"Right now, unlawful entry is a civil violation -- technically not a crime; a majority of House Republicans wanted to elevate the violation to a misdemeanor; but Democrats proposed making it a felony -- to undermine the entire bill by making it appear too harsh, according its sponsor, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis)."
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Wes Vernon of Renew America
"The American people have made it plain they want our borders protected. . . . One organizationis urging each citizen to send one brick to Congress with a message to start building a wall on the border. One can imagine the message getting through if lawmakers offices receive thousands of bricks."
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Columnist Thomas Sowell:
"If the Republicans wimp out (on the illegal immigration issue), that could so demoralize their base that Republican turnout in the fall elections could decline to the point where Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives."
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James E. Richards, Reno Gazette-Journal, April 20, 2006
"America is not a nation of immigrants. . . . The U.S. was founded by the likes of Washington, Jefferson and Adams, who were all born on this soil. So was I, my father, his father and his father. We are a nation of American citizens."
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