Sunday, November 9, 2008
Amnesty
Since we have a new president and I've been talking with a lot of my friends about issues like amnesty bill and abortion, i think a lot of Americans don't really understand the idea of migrating to USA. You see, i do agree with passing the amnesty bill, so to cut it short here is what amnesty bill :"The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, or, in its full name, the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (S. 1348) was a bill discussed in the 110th United States Congress that would have provided legal status and a path to legal citizenship for the approximately 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States. The bill was portrayed as a compromise between legalization of illegal immigrants and increased border enforcement: it included funding for 300 miles (480 km) of vehicle barriers, 105 camera and radar towers, and 20,000 more Border Patrol agents, while simultaneously restructuring visa criteria around high skill workers. The bill also received heated criticism from both sides of the immigration debate. The bill was introduced in the United States Senate on May 9, 2007, but was never voted on, though a series of votes on amendments and cloture took place. The last vote on cloture, on June 7, 2007, 11:59 AM, failed 34-61 effectively ending the bill's chances. A related bill S. 1639, on June 28, 2007, 11:04 AM, also failed 46-53." What some people argue about is that why should we legalize people that broke the law by getting or staying in the country illegally, when others come here and stay here legally. Well for most of the citizens of the world, coming and staying in USA is not that easy. For a fact, besides other paperwork needed for getting a visa to come to USA you also need a bank statement in which you have to have a decent amount of money. It's not as easy to stay more or work legally in the USA either, since a lot of visa's does not allows you to work. Other issues like "illegal immigrants don't pay taxes" are supported by a lot of American tax payers, the problem here is not that they don't want to, but since they don't have a social security number, because they are illegal, they accept low payed jobs, because they can't do better, and because the employers don't really care about them, they are satisfied in paying them lower wages as long as it will increase their profits. By passing this bill, these illegal immigrants will get a social security number and be able to pay taxes, and have a chance for education and better job conditions and wages. They are already here, what should we do? Throw them out of the country is impossible, and what they actually come here to do that it is so immoral? Just work in hope for a better life for themselves and their families since their home country can't offer this. Also this bill promotes better Border Patrol, so we can stop more illegal immigrants to come in.
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