What should be done about illegal immigration?

Interestingly enough, today's front page of the Seattle newspaper featured a photo of the crowd waving five & dime store American flag miniatures, but at the forefront of the picture was a huge red banner bearing the image of none other than Che Guevera. A couple of rows back were signs which seemed to suggest illegal Mexican immigrants were, somehow, political refugees.

The whole time I watched the parade, I never saw such banners or signs so it's possible that the front page pictures spoke more to the editorial bias of the newspaper than the prevalent sentiment among the marchers.

Foxfyre,

You are awfully deluded. Which of your categories does the ADL fall into?

Quote:

"As a community that has suffered the consequences of a restrictive immigration policy, we are committed to ensuring that America's immigration policy is fair, humane, and serves our nation's interests," said Barbara B. Balser, ADL National Chair, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.

The ADL leaders stressed that, "the tenor and outcome of our national debate over the fate of undocumented persons in the U.S. will speak volumes about how America welcomes and embraces foreigners from many lands who come here seeking refuge and opportunity."

Following the resolution's passage, ADL joined other Jewish organizations in a letter calling on Senators to adopt an immigration reform package that addresses the reality of the large population of undocumented workers living in our communities who currently lack meaningful rights under our law and are subject to exploitation.

ADLUSA

All people who - according to Foxfyre "may or may not have the best interests of the United States at heart".

When I go to a demonstrations, the last what I think about is the interest of Germany - I demonstrate to express my own opinion.

We should probably take lessons from the Germans I suppose. How do you manage to get everybody there to think alike on these things?

I think I might be on pretty solid ground, however, and think that those who favor people being law abiding in this country probably significantly outnumber all those who are advocating that people break the law.

Foxfyre wrote:

I think I might be on pretty solid ground, however, and think that those who favor people being law abiding in this country probably significantly outnumber all those who are advocating that people break the law.

But when laws are unjust, it can be in the best interest of the United States that its people break them. Incidentally, the United States seems to agree, or else it would not have devoted a national holiday to celebrating one frequent breaker of unjust laws. Some of us, including myself, believe that American (and European) immigration laws have become unjust to the point of justifying civil disobedience against them -- and certainly demonstrations against them.

That's cool.

So now our debate is a) ...
...
This is what the debate should be, and, until that issue is settled, there is simply no constructive way to deal with any of the other side issues.

So now our debate is a) are our immigration laws unjust? Most Americans believe they are not. And most Americans at this time do not agree with people breaking them and most Americans do see an injustice being done to many who are trying to operate within the law.

This is what the debate should be, and, until that issue is settled, there is simply no constructive way to deal with any of the other side issues.

So now our debate is a) are our immigration laws unjust? Most Americans believe they are not. And most Americans at this time do not agree with people breaking them and most Americans do see an injustice being done to many who are trying to operate within the law.