- Mon Mar 31, 2014 3:21 pm
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"But the fact that existing law is not perfect, or that something worthwhile takes time, is a moronic excuse for disobeying the law."-johnforbes
That someone might have to wait 60 or 70 years before their application is processed is not just some minor flaw that law-abiding people should simply put up with, you buffoon. You see yourself as the calm voice of rationality even as you are arguing people should simply acquiesce to an irrational system.
"For most, it takes decades to attain a reasonable level of affluence.
But the fact that existing law is not perfect, or that something worthwhile takes time, is a moronic excuse for disobeying the law."-johnforbes
Then you give us the very reason your silly argument for politely waiting 60 or 70 years to immigrate is idiotic.
At 70 or 80 years old you no longer have "decades to attain a reasonable level of affluence." now do you?
"Being Hispanic doesn't give a person a special license to break the law."-johnfoibles
Their being Hispanic also doesn't give you a special license to summarily exclude them from participating in the benefits of the life you have enjoyed either. You don't "deserve" them any more than anyone else does. You are here by a fluke of history, nothing more.
"Thus, if the flood of illegals coming across the border suddenly were able to vote and they started voting Republican..."-Insipid
What is it with you clowns that makes you chase red herrings with a dead-serious earnestness and believe they are relevant somehow.
Illegals can't vote. Neither can legal aliens. What will it take to get that reality through your thick skulls? You've got nothing else beyond your fantasies and fears, apparently.
"They want the instant increase in democratic voters. Plain and simple."-tvd
Of course they do.
And Republicans want an instant increase in Republican voters.
Well duh.
What has that got to do with handling the illegal immigration problem?
Maybe if the Republicans treated Hispanics as human beings instead of just trembling and pissing their shorts in fear, the Hispanics would vote Republican when they become citizens. Their conservative family values are closer to Republicans than Democrats.
I don't have all the answers and neither does anyone else, but I do know that the johnforbes/RealTool/Insipid plan of sticking your head into the sand and pretending that human beings are going to suddenly stop acting the way human beings have acted for thousands of years is not viable or intelligent.
You clowns insist that the only alternative to deporting 11 million people is to grant them all citizenship and the vote.
That's how truly ignorant you all are.
Maybe consider increasing the number of green cards issued each year and make more immigrants "legal" and tax-paying members of society. Nothing would actually change because they are already here and have been here for decades, except all those people would then join the tax rolls.
Maybe consider that the millions of immigrants brought here as children by their parents, those who didn't themselves break any law, those that have no life in their parent's native land and often don't even speak the language, could be granted permanent resident status and again join the tax rolls as active (but non-voting) members of the only society they have ever known.
Maybe consider that sometimes you need to compromise in order that the entire society may flourish.
Maybe consider that the U.S. of the 1950's is gone forever and we need to open up to a country made of a new fabric.
All I know for sure is that sitting around whining about "the way things oughta be" instead of dealing with the way things actually are and ignoring the massive numbers involved in the solution is not going to get us anywhere.