Rick Casey is an excellent addition to the Chronicle news pages. Of course, he has been here a while now but I am continually impressed by his columns.
I've never seen a political march with so many strollers.
The marchers were overwhelmingly young men and women, late teens to thirties, and many were pushing babies and toddlers in strollers.
Illegal immigration may be the only crime that produces healthy families.
As conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote: "The anti-immigration crowd says this country is under assault. But if that's so, we're under assault by people who love their children."
A poll taken two weeks ago for Time magazine asked whether being here illegally should be made a crime or whether illegal immigrants should be given work visas, tracked for six years and given permanent residence status if they pay a fine and back taxes and learn English.
One-quarter wanted the criminal approach, but 72 percent wanted to give immigrants a path to legal status.
So to answer the reader's question: I stand with about three of four Americans.
We're against illegal immigration.
But when they act like young versions of our hard-working grandparents, we're for the immigrants.
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Publius has obviously never taken a class in logic or never been a debater. Perhaps someone else can show him his fallacy and explain what type it is. Ignorant opponents are usually ignorant on many topics.
If the law is so weakly enforced against employers and immigrants and the border and documents so weakly controlled that there are over 12 million people here without the proper papers how much of a crime is it?
It is a minor crime worthy of minor punishment because the United States has wanted them here to do the cheap labor and made it easy to break the law. (There are also many, many non-Latinos here illegally, I used to be friends with a British citizen who overstayed his visa for years.)
I support making those here illegally paying a fine and perhaps their citizenship being delayed until we get serious about immigration. I am also not in favor of an expansion of the guest worker program. I am not in favor of the guest worker program at all unless that can also lead to citizenship.
The Republican party is split in half by immigration - half saying deport and criminalize them all and the business half wanting low wage slaves with no rights.
The Democratic Party wants more secure borders, minor punishment for those here illegally and assimilation and citizenship responsibilities like all of us other immigrants. I also want that.
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