Is Illegal Immigration Your Voting Point?

[DVC Sadie]

I see that 95 % of the disboards are against illegal aliens receiving drivers licences but is that a major factor in your voting for the POTUS?

I just thought it would be very interesting to see if the illegal alien situation would be a huge factor in the general election.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Yes.

 

[disneyjunkie]

Yes

 

[Fitswimmer]

It's one of them. The war in Iraq comes first, because it is a much larger drain on our economy and certainly more damaging to American families. Then, health care, because we simply cannot continue to function as a society as we have been-look at the teacher's strikes, the auto worker's problems we've been seeing. I don't have one friend or family member whose health care contributions aren't going up significantly for 2008. I'm not necessarily sold on anyone's plan yet, but I'm sold on the fact that we need one. Immigration is a solid number 3 on my hit parade.

 

[MoniqueU]

Tax increases, nationalized health care and then illegals. I am against them all.

 

[gina2000]

No, it's not.

 

[StrollPatrolMom]

I consider it a secondary national security issue so yes.

 

[MM27]

No it's not.

If people are willing to come here and work, then let them come. In my area there is a large Mexican population that wants to work and usually work with contractors. Why not give them a license if they are trying to better themselves.

It amazes me that people complain about the illegals that want to work but have nothing to say about the legals that think they are too good for the jobs that are available.

 

[profdsny]

Not in the least. We have been a country of illegal immigrants for 150 some years. It's not a security issue, it's an economy issue. And as long as we are going to continue to use these people, we should make them welcome.

 

[Gina]

I'd vote for the devil himself if he did something about the illegal immigration problem.

 

[Oreo Cookie]

It's number 5 on my list behind the Iraq war, healthcare, civil liberties, tax reform, and the illegal immigration.

I support finding a path to citizenship for illegals that are already here, and I believe we need to secure our borders. I do not think we should deport them, or throw them in jail. Most illegals are hard working people just trying to better their lives, and they support our economy more than they drain it. We need to get them out from the shadows.

 

[Honu]

Well, I'm not in favor of issuing driver's licenses to the undocumented, but I would never vote for someone that is in favor of building a stupid wall or other such nonsense either.

I feel for those crossing our the borders in search of a better life and I am more inclined to help them be here legally than just tell them to go away.

 

[What the Heck]

Not in the least. We have been a country of illegal immigrants for 150 some years. It's not a security issue, it's an economy issue. And as long as we are going to continue to use these people, we should make them welcome.

Yes, but it's a HUGE economic issue.

Up until the early 1990's when a certain president approved NAFTA, we could afford the illegal's. Now, however, with the jobs going out of our country, there are less and less jobs. America will very soon, possibly in our lifetime, become a country of third world jobs, with our countrymen moving to Mexico because they will have the jobs that NAFTA took away. Granted, when NAFTA was signed, it wasn't imagined that some jobs would be going even further away because of the internet, we didn't think we would be competing with India and the Phillipines and China and actually losing jobs to them.

No matter who is president, within a very short time we will be losing more jobs than we are creating, doesn't matter if it's democrat, republican, independent or communist.

 

[Peter Pirate 2]

No. There is no logical solution to the problem in the midst of so much illogical emotion. Best worrying about real issues like the war and education.

 

[Janet Hill]

but I would never vote for someone that is in favor of building a stupid wall or other such nonsense either.

Worked for the Chinese.

I'd vote for anyone who was willing to tackle the illegal immigration problem - maybe even Hillary. ....well maybe not.

 

[connorlevismom]

Tax increases, nationalized health care and then illegals. I am against them all.

Same here.

Kristine

 

[ntsammy5]

Not even on the radar screen. Too many other IMPORTANT issues

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Tax increases, nationalized health care and then illegals. I am against them all.

I will be happy to buy the first bricks!

 

[I'mNoPrince]

Yes


I have no problem with Immigration when done correctly.


And don't fool yourself once you give them a DL them make them citizens they won't be working those jobs anymore as they will have to paid a legal wage and thats not ever going to happen.

Thats also the reason no ones stopping it. Rules are on the books and they will throw me in Jail in a heart beat if I broke them but they all get a free pass and health care as well.

It's sickening that the criminals (and thats what everyone of them are ) get more rights then the law abiding.

 

[Caradana]

The people who are most vociferously against illegal immigration are the ones who feel most economically threatened by the immigrants. Look at the red states. If you're in a skilled job, and you are reasonably connected to your community, you have nothing to fear from an economic perspective. Personally, I have no interest in washing dishes at the local diner, so if an ambitious illegal wants to try and better her life up-to-her-elbows in caustic suds, I say, all the more power to her. I have nothing to fear from her. She isn't hurting me and she's trying to help herself.

I'm first generation American. My stepfather hung an eighty-year-old sign in his kitchen: "No Irish Need Apply." Isn't it amazing how we treat immigration like it's some terrifying new problem? Our country's origins are in a boatful of super-repressive British religious cult members.

A lot of people want to believe the illusion that legal immigration to the US is a meritocratic possibility, i.e. if a wannabe American goes through the right channels, he or she can legally come to the United States. It isn't. Unless you're rich, or advantaged, or particularly intelligent, or you win a random lottery, you aren't getting in. My friend Andrew is from New Zealand. English is his first language; he's got an American college degree he earned with an athletic scholarship; he teaches kindergarten with a work visa; he cannot get a permanent green card. He's been applying for years. If Andrew can't, who do you think can? Do you think a legitimate path to American citizenship seems feasible to the barefoot 20 year old who lives in a hut along the Rio Grande, can't read in Spanish much less in English, and is aching to live a better life?

"Bring us your poor, your weak, your wounded masses ..."

P.S. my big 3 issues: Iraq (http://planforiraq.com/), Stem Cell Research (it requires a sad kind of ultraconservativism to blatantly ignore scientific truth), and Budgetary Control (I'd vote for Jon Corzine if he could be convinced to run ... for whatever his flaws, he holds the line on the NJ budget)