Amnesty for illegal immigrants will not happen this time.....................

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:14:00 GMT, Jose
wrote in ::

While children of illegal aliens are currently considered to be US
citizens, perhaps it's time to amend the law (retroactively) to
exclude the children of those who cross the US border ILLEGALLY from
that right.

It's the children's fault?

If the US immigration law hadn't been broken by the parents, their
children would have been born outside the US, and been ineligible for
immediate US citizenship. To reward criminal conduct is unjust (with
the apparent exception of the Bush administration).

That is a poem on a plaque where immigrants came ashore and
were kept in isolation quarantine for weeks while their
health and skills were checked. If we had a Ellis Island
along the Mexican border, it might apply.



"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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| Give me your tired, your poor,
| Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
| The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
| Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
| I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
|
| "Larry Dighera" wrote in message
| ...
| On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:14:00 GMT, Jose

| wrote in
::
|
| While children of illegal aliens are currently
considered to be US
| citizens, perhaps it's time to amend the law
(retroactively) to
| exclude the children of those who cross the US border
ILLEGALLY from
| that right.
|
| It's the children's fault?
|
| If the US immigration law hadn't been broken by the
parents, their
| children would have been born outside the US, and been
ineligible for
| immediate US citizenship. To reward criminal conduct is
unjust (with
| the apparent exception of the Bush administration).
|
|
|

Jim Macklin wrote:
That is a poem on a plaque where immigrants came ashore and
were kept in isolation quarantine for weeks while their
health and skills were checked. If we had a Ellis Island
along the Mexican border, it might apply.

It was also written at a time when world and US population were much
lower, still mostly agrarian, and the US was much less socialistic than
it is today.

Ellis Island was a route for legal immigration. The major compalints
today are about IL-legal immigration, and what happens after that.

And to keep it in-group,
Jose asked:
... and how many children of illegal immigrants will learn to pilot
them, fuel them, or service them?
That depends on how long they get to hang around, the income status
they and their parents reach, etc. If the children were born here and
are therefore citizens (something that might need to be changed), then
they have a fair enough chance at gaining the income necessary to join
the club.

They'll have to work hard though. I hear today that our schools around
here let out at 2PM. No wonder we are not competitive.

Jim Macklin wrote:
That is a poem on a plaque where immigrants came ashore and
were kept in isolation quarantine for weeks while their
health and skills were checked. If we had a Ellis Island
along the Mexican border, it might apply.

Close enough for the cigar, especially since many people connect Ellis
Island with the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island. But this is
closer:

The New Colossus is a poem that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
wrote in 1883 for the Statue of Liberty, New York.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:14:00 GMT, Jose
wrote in ::

While children of illegal aliens are currently considered to be US
citizens, perhaps it's time to amend the law (retroactively) to
exclude the children of those who cross the US border ILLEGALLY from
that right.

It's the children's fault?

If the US immigration law hadn't been broken by the parents, their
children would have been born outside the US, and been ineligible for
immediate US citizenship. To reward criminal conduct is unjust (with
the apparent exception of the Bush administration).


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:49:56 GMT, "Steve Foley"
wrote in oReXf.117$v9.69@trndny01::

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.


Who wrote that? Is the lady with the lamp who graces the entrance to
New York harbor a French-horse? :-)

I believe the US has absorbed its share of immigrants over the
centuries.

It is anachronistic, negligent, perhaps reckless, and definitely
irresponsible for the world's leading nation to fail to appreciate the
necessity of controlled and documented movement across its borders.