I'm gonna bottom line this whole immigration thing

[Wren57]

I agree with your general stance on immigration but disagree with a few points (who would've guessed?)

Mexicans DO take jobs that other people don't want. Until you work on some jobsites that I have don't call me wrong... wearing a fully protective bodysuit with a respirator in a 115 degree building with poor circulation while scraping asbestos-laden floor tile for 10-16 hours a day at $8/hour doesn't appeal to most people... but it DOES to Mexicans. That is simply supply/demand in the labor market. Nothing wrong with capitalism... unless you're socialist.

And no they don't come here for citizenship, they come here for work because their home country is so pathetic it can't fix itself so it allows and even encourages people leaving... the vast majority of them just want to better their lives and their family's lives, so don't make them out as common criminals although they've broken an immigration law. This comes back to the "is it OK to steal an apple if you are starving and poor" dilemna. I say so long as you work for that apple, then yes.

Look, I'm not saying let all the Mexicans come into America with their Spanish and pinatas and let them run the place, I just think it'd be wise to let as many in as want to be in, so long as they are documented, get a job within 2 weeks and hold it for at least 6 months or get deported. They should also have to learn SOME english and learn the general laws. This would force them to be productive members of society and they would be paying taxes. If they commited a crime while in America they should be deported and not allowed back in.

Rebuttle?