second wave of immigration?
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There will always be immigration both legal and illegal.
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Some yes, some no. \n\nI think those that have been here for 15 years, can pass a literacy test and swear alligiance to the US and who can substantiate that they have worked most of their time here or are a spouse of a worker I think they should be granted amisty . The 15 year period has to be unbroken. That is no deportations or arrests during that time period. I also feel they must renounce citizenship in the country of origion. Something we don't do for most imigrants but the fact they arrived here illegally I think is justification for more stringent requirements. \n\nFor those here less than that or ones we keep deporting and catching again. No I think we should grant them no amisty. I feel that the majority of them do not want to be Americans except for economic gain and do not believe in the US. Nor that they would have anything like the tolerance we have for them if the posisitions were reversed.  I think they would throw us out on our ear in a heart beat. Often they do even here. Try to get a job working at a place where mostly illegals work. If the boss is an illegal you'll find that the job is not availible for people of a different ethnic group. \n\nI think blanket amesty would be to revive racial/ethnic/religious prejudice in the nation. I think we will fragment along these lines and encourage even more enemies of the US to come here. While the majority of illegals come here just for work. They have been recruited en masse by legals once here by various racist organizations such as LULU. \n\nI also think that unemployment will reach new heights as most of these former illegals will suddenly want better paying jobs that do not exist and be replaced by illegals. With our welfare system already near collapse this would be just enough to end most social services for the poor for all Americans I feel. \n\nThen there is a secondary issue. If we allow these people to become Amercians in mass. It opens the door for relitives to come over here outside of quotas. So if we give 3 million illegals amesty then we have just brought over 10 million other relitives of these 3 million. I don't think the US could survive such an influx of people, especially when the bulk of them will be of a single non-English speaking ethnic  group. Remember legal US citizens have the right to bring over direct family members legally and unaffected by quotas.
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You might need to consult an immigration attorney.
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Immigration and water usage
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I've heard similar.\n\nI heard that they're looking to allow professionals to emigrate, but make it harder for others.\n\nIn other words they only want to let in people that are gonna improve their economy, or their health service, etc...
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It's relatively new since controlled immigration and the concept of legalising immigration is also relatively new.  Were we worried about this fifty years ago?  No, because immigrants did not want to emigrate here as badly.  Now, with labour becoming increasingly less expensive in other countries, we called in more immigrant workers to help boost the economy in the U.S. (yes, people, it was actually originally produced to boost immigration so that in the long run, the economy would boost), and it actually worked.  The only problem now is that corporations are now moving overseas to find cheap labor, or hiring ILLEGAL immigrants for cheap labour, and that's hurting the economy.  It's not immigration that's the problem - they have the same expectations and are legally bound to same rule that Americans are bound to when it comes to employment.  It's the problem of labour allocation (moving to other "cheaper" countries like China and boosting its economy, instead of our own) and hiring ILLEGAL immigrants.  I think we need to stop judging the legal immigrants - they came here for the same reason the original "Americans" came here, to make a better life for themselves and to work for fair wages.  Start blaming the employers of illegal immigrants and the corporations that are investing in underdeveloped countries.
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It is a good question. However, the way that you have it worded makes it a bit ambiguous and confusing. Are you talking about two different immigration reforms (i.e., "a past immigration reform" & "the current immigration reform")? If so, it is better to refer to the two different reforms by their formal names, such as "The Immigration Reform Act of 19##". If you are talking about just one reform, you will need to make the statement less ambiguous. Hope this helps. :)
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Current proposals include English fluency for citizenship.\n\nSimilar objections are raised with every new wave of immigrants, but they will be absorbed as was the preceeding wave. \n\nI lived in a multicultural environment as a child, and enjoyed it all.  Many Italian mothers and grandmothers spoke only their native language, but my Irish grandparents came with English and Gaelic. Those Italians who were not home-bound by culture quickly learned English on the streets, and in school. At home they spoke to their elders in Italian. My Russian Polish Jewish stepfather, born in the U.S., could communicate in many languages, but most often Yiddish.\n\nWe all learned and experienced ceremonies, holidays, customs, foods, dances and songs from one another.  When we spent our summers at the seashore - no A/C in those days - we performed those songs and dances with and for one another.  \n\nToday, all of us feel assimilated, and appreciate the many gifts passed down from those who braved the unknown to come to America.  None of us are terrorists or criminals, nor are any that I still know xenophobic or racist.  We are mostly tolerant, socially progressive and fiscally conservative.  Politically we are split 50/50.\n\nJust as in the late 1800's when our grandparent's lived in the Irish, Italian and Jewish ghettos of NYC today's immigrant finds comfort and safety in being with "his own kind."  Over time many diverse interests replace language and skin color as reasons to be neighbors.  Today my neighbors' lineages are: a Dane with an Irish wife, a German with a Portuguese wife, a Norwegian with an Irish husband, an English pair, and the Irish in my home.  So too will it be for the wave now arriving.
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That is appalling.  I hadn't heard of that.  You're right - it is just an invitation to illegal immigrants to come in and all they have to do is stay low for 10 years and they have it made!  Nothing like encouraging illegal immigration - come on in!
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You should check 1986 (was that the year?) when a few million illegals got granted amnesty.  Now we are having the same problem.  So if the U.S. grants them amnesty, how many more times are new illegals going to pour in and do the same thing?  Look for research articles in library databases.  Find news articles, books, interviews.  Etc...
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Yes its true. They are very much needed no matter how much those legal citizens deny it. They might find out only if those migrant workers go on mass leave.
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Many people are FOR immigration-- legal immigration that is.
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I recently read this article in the Chicago Sun Times.  It is both enlightening and scary.  I am living overseas temporarily, but I often wonder what I'll return to when I do come home.  The US is not what it used to be.  Here's the article:\n\nNo easy answers on immigration conundrum \nApril 9, 2006 \nBY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  \n \nHere's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork. \nGo ahead, try it. In Michelle Malkin's book Invasion, she recounts the tale of two fellows who in August 2001 pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in search of fake ID from the illegal-alien assistance network that hangs around there. Luis Martinez-Flores, who'd been living here illegally since 1994, took them along to the local DMV, supplied them with a fake address and falsely certified they lived there. The very next day, the two guys returned with two pals of their own, and used their own brand-new state ID on which the ink was not yet dry to obtain in turn brand-new state ID for their buddies. A couple of weeks later, all four of them used their Virginia ID to board American Airlines Flight 77 at Dulles Airport and plowed it into the Pentagon. \nThink about that. From undocumented illegal alien in the 7-Eleven parking lot to lawful resident of the State of Virginia in just a couple of hours. Wow. Say what you like about Luis Martinez-Flores, but he runs one efficient operation. \nBy comparison, say you've got two kids under 5, and you'd like to bring over a nice English nanny to look after them. Name of Mary Poppins. Good references, impeccable character. If you apply now, there's a sporting chance the process may be completed before your children's children are in college. \nGiven that the new immigration "compromise" bill retrospectively approves all the millions of people who've been through the super-efficient Luis Martinez-Flores immigration system but without doing anything to improve the sclerotic U.S. government immigration system, maybe it would be better just to subcontract the entire operation to Senor Martinez-Flores and his colleagues. It would certainly be cheaper. The extensive Undocumented American support network manages to run it out of the back of the car from a parking lot without a lot of air-conditioned offices full of lifetime employees on government pensions, and given that the net result is exactly the same people who'd be living here anyway, why not go with the lowball bid? Legal immigrants to the United States can only envy the swift efficient service Messrs. Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar received outside that 7-Eleven. \nAll developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." True. They don't stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you're an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what's supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like
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What an informative article...but I am already against illegals in our country so this only reinforces not changes my stance.\n\nthanks!
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not too much......some are trying to justify illegal immigration with history.......-----it is funny how history repeats itself!!!!
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While pondering  the plight of those 'poor souls' referred -to in the question, consider whether they are worthy of any more pity than any other poor souls waiting for legitimate entry into the USA. Also, while we are at it, maybe we should be taking a hard look at the wisdom of continuing with an immigation policy that dates from a time when our country needed more people.
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Yes, I love it!  I look on the internet news daily for more stories like the one about the mayor of Hazelton, PA, or Sheriff Joe in Arizona, or big unexpected roundups of illegals in different cities.  It does my heart proud to see the citizens of the USA standing up against this injustice that the government has allowed to occur and get out of hand - illegal immigration.  I believe the power of the American citizens is now snowballing against illegal immigration and whether the Federal Government wants to or not, they are going to have to listen to the people whom they work for, and act accordingly.  The days of the freebies and handouts for illegal immigrants are quickly coming to an end and the smart ones will start planning their own voluntary self-deportations now, rather than wait until they are found and shipped out, possibly leaving family members behind in the USA.  Better they start planning and get themselves organized for an orderly return to their home countries before they get caught by immigration officials or the police or their landlord or their employer.  This way, if they have lived cleanly in the USA so far, without committing further offences since they first illegally came over the border, they have a hope of returning legally one day, if they go home now and apply to immigrate to the USA through the proper procedures.  WAKE UP ILLEGALS!  Do yourselves and your families a favour and return yourselves in an orderly fashion now, while you still can.  Otherwise, don't cry and whine when you get caught and shipped out on a moment's notice, when you aren't ready.  The jig is up!  Amnesty is NOT coming!!  Wake up and smell the coffee!