undoumented aliens – Coast Contact

As has been said by so many other people; we are all immigrants except American Indians.

There is a difference between President Obama’s granting of legal status to the undocumented and the amnesties of the past. The president’s executive action is only effective as long as he is president. He has the authority to reduce the government’s pursuit of illegal aliens. That is what he is doing.

His reason? His legacy. He obviously sees his action as a progressive solution to a problem that has existed since 1986 when President Reagan did sign an amnesty law passed by Congress.

The 5 million or so people who might be effected by Obama’s executive order are aliens who have held jobs and have families here for more than five years. We allowed these people to obtain jobs. We rarely punished employers who are fully aware that they have been hiring undocumented aliens. We did these things because those illegal aliens took jobs that most Americans won’t. All this because American businesses would not pay wages that most Americans will accept. Construction workers, farm laborers, and other blue collar jobs are dirty, dangerous, or in some other way are not acceptable to Americans. Illegal aliens are filling those jobs.

The GOP continues to be the party of NO. They have objected to every proposal made by Obama. With no ideas of their own the Republicans will provide the grid lock that has existed for the past two years.

For the sake of the nation the Republicans in the House of Representatives should approve the Senate passed immigration bill.

The vast majority of illegal aliens are poorly educated. They compete for many of the jobs held by poorly educated and limited capability Americans. That drives down the labor rates for the poorest Americans.

I have read the summary of the new immigration law being proposed in the Senate. There are so many trip wires in the proposed law it does not seem likely that this bill will ever become law. If it does, those entering the country illegally won’t receive “Registered Provision Immigrant (RPI) legal status” for at least five years and probably even longer.

The proposed law does nothing to prevent aliens who are bent on harming America from becoming legal residence and ultimately citizens.

19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother in the Boston bombing became a citizen just last year. Having gone to American schools he had learned enough to earn his citizenship.

Then there is Alejandrino Honorato who came to the United States in the early 1980s. He obtained amnesty thanks to the Reagan amnesty plan. He has a business that employs 60 people and that is good. However, he still does not speak English well enough to converse with a reporter from Businessweek. His story was told in the March 18-24 edition of that magazine. How did he obtain his citizenship without being able to speak our language?

What do these two people have in common? Neither really wanted to become Americans.

The Republicans want to compromise with the Democrats on legalization and citizenship of millions of immigrants because they are hoping to garner their votes in future elections. This has nothing to do with “doing the right thing.”