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**Tadpole** · 05-01-2006, 05:28 AM

New bills have been recently proposed to crack down on immigration. Making it harder to get in, stay in, and making it alot easier to kick them out. Assuming they are illegal (one bill was proposed to make it a felony to be in the United Stated Illegally).

Protests today are expected to be the biggest since the Vietnam protests. Today is May 1, 2006. The point is to show the economic power of immigrants.
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My opinion:
The protests of legal immigrants should be listened too attentively. We all came from immigrants.

The protests of ILLegal immigrants should be kicked out immidetialty. They arent citizens, which means they dont have a say how we run our government anymore than they citizens of other nations do. Just becuase they are protesting in our streets doesnt mean they have a say. They came across illegally.

I have nothing against illegal immagrants. I think the ones that are here should have a chance to become citizens. And by no means should we ever ever close our borders. But we should protect them. If anyone wants to become an american citizen and protest. THen thats the what makes america great. However, jumping the border and protesting our governemtn is a slap in the face, if you ask me. Dont protest the laws if your not willing to follow them.

It isnt impossible to become a citizen. It is extremely hard to become one, but if everyone was let in to the one boat that everyone wants....then it sinks.

I dont think the idea of ten of thousands of people running across the border makes any feel safe. Regardless of citizenship. That alone should warrent strict border controls.

Control the borders, make everyone who wants in; go through the same screening process, never close them down but make it a funnel like the rest of the 250,000,000 citizens of the USA have to go through in order to cross.

Immigrants who are new citizens of the USA have as much to say about our government as you and I do. There is a big difference between an immgrant who is a US citizan, and an illegal immigrant.

Mexican citizens (the majority of illegal immgrants) do not have a say in our government any more than French or Russian Citizens do. No matter what street they protest on.