Comments on: The Truth About Immigration

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:42:25 +0000

You move, me

By: chris ravella

chris ravella — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:36:22 +0000

Hey just thought I’d add mt 2 cents. Not sure where to start or don’t want to really stir the pot. Also I’m not trying to sound heartless.
I have two comments, first if we don’t slow down or stop illegal immigration our border towns and our health system, in which we all know has its issues, will continue to have a strain. The border towns and other area in which illegals settle, slowly loose value and crime and other problems accrue. Not saying the Americans is perfect by all means but I’ve lived in these areas and seen it first hand. I really feel there is a simple solution.
As we have a number of about 12 million that are all ready here,common since would see you cant just get rid of them. I feel we can fast track them to citizens but at a penalty. Once they become citizens they now have to file taxes. Any monies from filling taxes would be kept as penalty and put back into the health systems or schools, for the first 5 years of filling. Simple done press on.
Secondly, during this process we lock the borders down,completely. Why does that sound barbaric, I don’t think it does.The numbers that amass each month are staggering and litterally put a strain on the American people and health system. I would put the National guard down there and have them control the entire border. The Soldiers would be sent down by batallions for 5 weeks tours once a year, and would not deploy over seas unless volunteered. There would be enough batallions to control assigned areas. Also the average soldier would be armed with non-lethal weapons to avoid any unnecessary incidents. They would be back by border patrol with law enforcement weapons.
I don’t feel these two ideas are radical or difficult to do. You can feel sorry for them all you want but they are breaking the law. We have have the right to defend or borders from an invasion and that’s what it is. We can stop it, take a step back and help the ones who are here and make it work with the governments in question to create a way that doesn’t promote a mass illegal movement to our country.
Sorry I don’t feel the same way this blog site is voicing but i also think its why America is great,we can disagree and still live in peace with each other.

Thank you Sgt Ravella, Chris

By: The Open Door — The Character of Our Country | Dog Canyon

The Open Door — The Character of Our Country | Dog Canyon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:05:19 +0000

[...] a free world, all the doors are open. We enter and we leave. As Genevieve Van Cleve wrote in her tribute to the truth about immigration, “People [...]

By: Kay Pils

Kay Pils — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:31:21 +0000

Wonderfully written, Genevieve. Yes, we all do move at one time or another, affecting the system wherever we go. To be welcomed is a great feeling and to be the welcomer is living life graciously and selflessly. To treat the world like you would liked to be treated — Imagine!

By: Laura Lane

Laura Lane — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:17:26 +0000

Beautiful Beautiful writing!
Very moving. I look so forward to reading more.

Laura Lane

By: Laura Lane

Laura Lane — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:16:27 +0000

Beautiful Beautiful writing!!!
I love your voice and style.
Very moving, thought provoking.

Hope to read more,

Laura Lane

By: amy

amy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:42:28 +0000

I taught English as a Second Language for 10 years and I wish I’d collected written accounts of my students. So many of them had endured situations, unimaginable situations…and they had not only lived to tell about them, they had risen above them and put their energy into positive endeavors.

By: Kathy Thomas

Kathy Thomas — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:42:13 +0000

Very powerful and thought provoking.

By: James Orr

James Orr — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:40:41 +0000

People will move. We can help them in two big ways.

1) The best way is to remove their necessity to move, by:

a) helping them establish good infrastructures so as to become self sufficient, and
b) and removing their tyrants.

2) In the interim, open our arms and our pocket books to help them survive.

By: John Johnson

John Johnson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:04:01 +0000

If you offer them a job, free education, free healthcare, and a driver’s license, you bet they will come. Why wouldn’t they? I would. The question is do we want to pay for it to the detriment of our own? If not, secure the borders.