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Originally Posted by JustJess
1. Land mines? Really?
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Yes, really. As opposed to a manned wall with armed guards shooting to kill, or some other prohibitively expensive solution. We have the landmines made and ready so the costs would be small. We'd only need to mine the border maybe 300 yards wide. Land mines would give the same result as border guards with shoot to kill orders for a fraction of the price.
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I wonder how you'd feel about that if it'd been YOUR ancestors that everyone wanted to kick out. Do you think they were all here perfectly legally? Have you not noticed the increasing bureacracy and bullshit hoops people have to jump through to become citizens of our country?
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Yeah, they were all here legally, seeing how they didn't break any laws to get in.
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2. Of course laws are supposed to get changed with protesting and walk outs. What else is the point of protesting if there are never any results? It's a basic tenet of American principles!
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We vote. The whole point of protesting is to miss school and work and maybe
feel as if they are taking part in something big.
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3. The laws need CHANGING. Do you have any idea what it's like? ANY IDEA? Between the government's pisspoor planning and inability to streamline any sort of processing, and the plethora of ridiculously bad legal advice, people are getting screwed left and right, no matter what.
4. If you made FOUR DOLLARS AN HOUR, you would qualify for free health care and no taxes too. Except all those sales tax items, of course.
5. Ask the businesses that hire illegals if they would rather hire legally. Ask 'em if they want to start paying at least the (ridiculously low) minimum wage. Ask if they want to pay taxes and unemployment insurance and FICA on legals rather than paying nothing to illegals.
Now imagine someone who just needs a job, has very little literacy, and has no help with this process attempting to become a legal resident of the United States. And before you start making cracks about foreigners not being able to read/write in English, let me remind you that 1: there is no Official Language in the US (and a good thing for many of our forebears); and 2: Many born Americans are unable to read/write enough to handle a process like this.
So, in essence, get off your highhorses. We live in a glass house here, and we shouldn't be so quick to throw stones.
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So your solution is amnsety? Fine. then I want amnesty from the next 5 years of tax payments. Why should someone who BROKE THE LAW to get here receive amnesty and I shouldn't?