Fear Greets Immigration Accord
The Seattle Post Intelligencer may or may not know it, but an article from them is a perfect reason to apply the crushing sanctions against employers who hire illegals and reverse the flow of illegal immigrants. At the same time a ‘comprehensive’ deportation effort for those not leaving voluntarily and denying any future application for citizenship for those requiring deportation. And if you read this far, you are of course in agreement with this or think I’m a racist or worse. The word is close, but I’m a realist not a racist.
The article I mentioned first features a Mexican man in his 30’s. He works as a welder in the US. He is not thrilled with the news from Washington today regarding the amnesty, yes amnesty proposal from President Bush and some member of the Senate. He and his family are from southwestern Mexico. He’s been here three years and while reading the story translated to Spanish and using a translator for the interview, he stated the 5000 dollar investment in citizenship was ‘mucho, mucho dinero’. He continued to complain about every element mentioned in the new proposal.
His complaints were echoed by La Raza and other special interest advocates. The remainder of the story repeated the typical rhetoric by both sides of the story. The last point to mention from the article is the 8 to 13 year waiting period for Zcard citizenship is the Achilles heel of the plan for illegal advocacy. The Zcard amnesty makes the illegal into legal immediately. But the waiting period does not begin until the border is secure and the ‘high tech’ employer verification system is completed. And we know what the chances are of that. So this plan truly is amnesty because illegal aliens will be made legal immediately and the required waiting period for citizenship may never start.
And yet people like the 30 year old man from Mexico wonder why people like me are not thrilled with them. He is from Mexico. He started a family. Perhaps he did not have the means to start a family but he did. He comes to the US illegally and takes a job. He did not learn English before coming here. He has been here three years and still uses Spanish translations and translators. But when held to account for his actions or accept the consequences of violating another country’s laws, he feels no obligation to comply but complain.
And I would like someone to try to convince me that I am wrong. How did his circumstances and his choices become the responsibility of the United States and its citizens? How does he feel no obligation to make things right? How does he knowingly enter the US illegally and when a proposal is given for him to gain citizenship, he first complains about the cost? How does taking no responsibility, violating laws, making choices you can’t afford and complaining about it make us responsible? I still recommend the actions in the first paragraph. This is not about a nation of immigrants or altruism. It is about money and how one gets it. That would depend on your part in the scam.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
Fears greet immigration accord
Rights groups say proposal would tear families apart
By SCOTT GUTIERREZ
P-I REPORTER
The 31-year-old welder shook his head as he read the news Thursday of proposed immigration reforms that could affect him and the future of his wife and child still in southwest Mexico.He clicked a mouse and read the MSNBC.com story — translated into Spanish — on a computer at the South Park community information center. His eyes stopped when he saw he would have to pay $5,000 under the proposal to buy a path to citizenship. “Mucho, mucho dinero,” he said….