great, now Alabama is involved

[Desert Rooster]

I'm sorry but i find some of these comments offensive, these people have the jobs that americans dont want, so what is the problem?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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I agree.. if you are here illegally..

Illegal is a definition in itself. I agree. If someone is illegally in ANY other country I can think of, they're deported or jailed.
That said, we have a little different situation here because there are so many. And there is an economic case for some to stay. We need brave souls in Washington to make a plan and work the plan to resolve.
It's not a state issue. States don't have citizenship. Nation-states do.

 

[easttxchick]

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I'm afraid I have to speak up on this one. I went to college and also have quite a few years experience as a paralegal. I can't get even a part time job making minimum wage. Trust me, there are MANY people like me that would absolutely do "the jobs that the American people don't want" if we were give the opportunity.

 

[KristyHall]

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you mean ones where they take children forcibly and deny them their right to practice their cultural beliefs and speak their language?

 

[KenK]

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Come to Georgia, we are experiencing an extreme shortage of workers to pick peaches, watermelon and cantaloupe.

 

[redhen]

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you mean ones where they take children forcibly and deny them their right to practice their cultural beliefs and speak their language?

Thats a shame..

 

[Egghead_Jr]

It's all politics as usual. Arizona's laws are tough but due to the need for low paid workers are not enforced. The same will hold true in Alabama. Politician's get to pat themselves on the back and get re-elected but the industrial pressure for cheap labor and consumer pressure for cheap food will win out.

If illegal aliens is a problem, and indeed it is, then a way to combat that is to make it easier to be legal. What happens now is every few years a president gives amnesty to those from south of the border. Why not simply make it easier to become legal? One way to do this is to reduce the 3 year waiting list to 1. Then we can be back to hating the new to America Europeans that are taking our jobs (historically it was the Irish) instead of Hispanics.

In Australia the waiting list is 5 years. They are inundated with Asians and not liking it. Again, lower the legal time frame. Learn to hate another ethnicity than the one you currently do. << joke, not very good but then neither is racism. Illegal peoples do not contribute to a tax only a drain on social services. Therefore it's to every countries benefit to encourage legal citizens and enforce the restrictions, not ignore, on illegal.

 

[DuckLady]

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