What should be done about illegal immigration?

If you don't want millions of people in the country illegally, you will be happy with the Senate bill.

Its two main features; border security and a pathway to citizenship for people who have made lives here, both address the problem of people living here illegally.

It's the people who don't want millions of Hispanics living in the country who are the bigots. They are against this bill.

Simpleton is they name.

let in small numbers of people from everywhere else come in legally as before.

Children who were brought to this country didn't have a choice.
Ignorance is bless.

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let in small numbers of people from everywhere else come in legally as before.

As before what?

I am in favor of small numbers of people from other countries being granted entrance as occurred historically

granted entrance as occurred historically

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I am in favor of small numbers of people from other countries being granted entrance as occurred historically

In what period of our history do you think this happend?

Brandon doesn't know American history on immigration. If he did, he wouldn't make such ignorant statements such as

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granted entrance as occurred historically

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History is a good defense against the rhetoric of bigotry.

I usually don't waste my time with people who lack historical perspective of anything they post. I call what you post mostly bull ****!

The history is important (which is why you made reference to it in the first place).

The current wave of immigrants is no different than past waves of immigrants. The charge that immigrants have no "compulsion" to learn the language was first made about German immigrants in the 18th century (famously by Benjamin Franklin). It was also said of Irish immigrants, Asian immigrants and Jewish immigrants.

If you knew the history, you the lies of the anti-immigrant know nothings were false.

Like always, by the second generation immigrants assimilate just fine.

History is a good defense against the rhetoric of bigotry.

who will essentially form pockets of their home country in my country, people who come here from one area in numbers so great that they feel no pressure to adopt our language and culture.

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who will essentially form pockets of their home country in my country, people who come here from one area in numbers so great that they feel no pressure to adopt our language and culture.

no Irish
no Germans
no Italians
no Polish
no Europeans of any sort

nobody

how do you think any group of immigrants behaves when it first arrives?

No. You were provided the answer by another member, but you just ignored what he said. You were dumped on, and now you feel hurt. But no more than the immigrants who come to this country to advance themselves and their children. This "is" the land of opportunity, and most people on this planet understand this simple fact.

If you lived in another country, especially a third world country, you would also want to come here - to bring your children, because there's nowhere else on earth that provides people who work and study hard a chance at living a pretty good life on this planet.

My grandfather brought his new wife to this country in 1896, because the people in Japan were starving without any work to earn income.

Fast forward to today; our family is made up of Brits, Germans, Italians, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, black, and Polynesian. Japanese-Americans were the second largest Asian immigrants in the US before WWII; we are now the smallest Asian group in the US.

That's because the Japanese economy grew to become the second largest economy in the world after WWII, and their citizens didn't need to migrate to other countries to earn a living.

capish?