<p>“Here in NYC, at least, not all illegal aliens are Hispanic.”</p>
<p>Here out west, not all illegal aliens are Hispanic, as well. Are you assuming that holding the line on illegals should apply only to Hispanics? I don’t assume that. Asian stowaways are quite rampant, btw. The point about emphasizing the size of the Hispanic population is that they’ve reached such levels in the public schools that they are an overwhelming majority in all but the very wealthy districts, which are few. That majority creates a de facto Hispanic culture, priority, and language in the schools. That’s why post 99 rings true: it’s exactly what’s happening in my region, too. Doesn’t matter what the laws are: there’s educational anarchy & counter-culture dominating the publics by virtue of the size of the incoming population. And there really are non-Hispanic minorities in those same schools who are getting cheated major. But I’m sure in jonri’s view, this is perfectly acceptable, because after all the majority are supposedly being deprived of their homeland & they’re probably “brilliant,” thus this is a kind of ‘rough justice,’ as the term goes. And naturally Americans just need to learn to live with that.</p>
<p>QUOTE:
“we have thousands of illegal aliens who came to the US when they were very young. In most cases, nobody was thinking about where they would go to college. Mom and dad just wanted to put food on the table. Due to our lax enforcement, mom and dad were able to stay here for many years. The kids who came here as infants or toddlers are now young adults, who have no familiarity with their homelands and in many cases cannot read or write in their native tongues.”</p>
<p>(Where’s my violin? I’m sure I saw it around here some place.) AMERICAN Moms and Dads also just want to put food on the table. Where have you been? Do you not see how the economy has taken its toll on all classes, but especially those legal citizens in our own country who most think about where the next meal is coming from? You seem to have some notion that every legal resident here has abundance. Well, if they up & moved to a Third World, they would, by comparison, be wealthy, given whatever acquired earning power & possessions they’ve managed to achieve here. But in the U.S. standard of living & daily, required expenses, they’re thinking about whether they should buy cereal or bread tomorrow – or neither – given the rise in the cost of domestic grain, the cost of gas, etc.</p>
<p>QUOTE:
“I tend to think that any kid who is in the US by some age like 10, remains here continuously and isn’t “caught” before finishing high school at an American high school, should be given some very easy way to regularize his or her status.”</p>
<p>And I tend to think that they should not be rewarded with additional free rides as a validation of their PARENTS’ conscious deception, but that they, even as passive recipients of our largesse, should be given 5 years of mandatory governmental service in a variety of venues from which they may choose. If there were 10, at 18 they’ve been given 8 years of services. Five years will buy their parents permanent amnesty, allow them to demonstrate how grateful they are with such labor repayment, not make a mockery out of legal immigration, & keep their modest dollars within this country for that period of time. After their 5 years of gov’t service on a subsistence salary, their parents will earn automatic citizenship if those parents have been law-abiding as well. </p>
<p>I think that proposal is more than generous. The fact is, it is not the U.S. gov’t that puts the children of illegals at risk. It is the immigrant parents that put their own children in legal harm’s way by taking such a chance. Yes, I know why they did so: for economic opportunity. But they are not experiencing famine in Mexico, so I don’t quite define that journey to be as much of an act of desperation as I would the attempt from some other countries.</p>