CerealKiller wrote:ebrown_p wrote:I will not support a candidate that doesn't support a compassionate immigration policy that includes a path to citizenship for people who are living, working and raising families here.
If you freely feed all the cats that come to your door, you will soon have more cats than you can feed.
Socialism and unlimited immigration sounds great in soccer mom principle, but absolutely destroys a nation in practice.
The most important part of the immigration issue is compassion.
I don't buy the argument that you need to attack and harshly punish "illegal" people in order to control illegal immigration. Breaking families, hurting communities, demonizing ethnic groups and disrupting lives are not a good strategy.
A reasonable immigration solution will focus on exploitative employers and causes of poverty (i.e. NAFTA) while providing a path to citizenship for people here.
But this has already been debated elsewhere.... I was simply answering the question.