This proposed immigration bill is harmful to the Legal Americn public. If something cannot be proposed that protects legal Americans, then nothing needs to be on the table. Enforce the law and get them, out.

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Among the opinion pieces you cite regarding the the monstrosity-in-progress Bush-Senate immmigration bill is one from the "New York Times" that references its own public opinion survey. The "Times" has invested a great deal of money and prestige in that manipulated research and had the effrontery to give manipulated opinion two days on its front page, one day in column one, page one, and the next, column two, page one. The reason for the investment in the study and for its prominent placement is simple: to reassure nervous members of Congress that public opinion is on their side. But of course surveys have a marked tendency to elicit the responses their designers seek -- both through the way in which questions are asked and which are posed and which ignored. Reading the "Times" "news story" about the survey it would appear the present legislation enjoys the strong support of the American people. But another survey, taken over precisely the same period by Rasmussen Reports, comes to a very different conclusion. Why? It poses a question the "Times" survey carefully avoided. If the American people are given the choice between solving the problem of the illegal population by attrition -- incremental whittling down and the engendering of self-deportation by creating an extremely unsympathetic environment through tough law enforcement -- they choose that alternative over ANY FORM OF AMNESTY by 79%. The "Times" simply avoids giving respondents the option and then boasts the results of the faulty dilemma its own survey poses.
Nor does the "Times" that attacks opponents of "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" as cruel bigots ever acknowledge that illegal immigration is hardly victimless; indeed, it represents a major assault on the jobs, wages and empolyment conditions of millions of the poorest Americans -- a cohort that includes a disproportionate percentage of African Americans. We owe precisely NOTHING to illegal aliens that have entered our country in defiance of our laws and have broken countless others to remain, including the theft of billions in public services -- not to mention seizing such rights as voting. We have never done justice to the millions of our African-American brothers and sisters who build the wealth of this nation in unpaid slave labor and have suffered systematic oppression for much of their history here, often internalizing that oppression in ways that are tragic. Let us set this wrong right at last -- rather than legalize foreign lawbreakers whose presence here will constitute another blow to the economic and social stability of black America.

The very simple way to accommodate the immigration problem is not by prosecuting or persecuting the myriads of illegals but by cutting off their source of sustenance by prosecuting their countable exploiting employers. Should these malefactors be forced to pay living wages, two desirable results will occur.
One, that the language barrier will give greater preference to English speakers and
Two, that consumers will be required to pay proper costs for goods and services rather than themselves profiting from illegalities.

When the slaves were freed, everyone said "OH MY OH MY who will toil the fields" well the field got toiled, and the slaves got free. Our economy will not go down if we use the method of Attrition. This will take a couple of years, but life will go on, and we will be a much better country for it.

When the slaves were freed, everyone said "OH MY OH MY who will toil the fields" well the field got toiled, and the slaves got free. Our economy will not go down if we use the method of Attrition. This will take a couple of years, but life will go on, and we will be a much better country for it.

Politicians again neglect Americans into a corner. Immigrant numbers are estimated, and even those are a small. country. Choose alresdy! Either their in or out,(preferably out). Regardless of which one, just so this arguing and posturing ends. Each of these issues tears this country apart, against each other. And the politicos choose the one which gets them elected. And once there, the lying and neglect start all over again.

DEAR EDITOR,WHY ITS TAKING SO LONG TO SOLVE THIS HUGE &VERY SERIOUS MATTER FOR YEARS TO COME & HAD 21 YEAR PAST TO DO BETTER FOR THOSE PEOPLE (CALLED ILLEGAL ALIENS)WHO THEY ARE HERE FROM 15 TO 21 YEARS, WORKING HARD WITH HONESTY,PAYING TAXES,WAITING THERE LEGAL STATUS (PERMANENT RESIDENT CARD) FOR MORE THAN 15 TO 20 YEARS WITH THERE "AMERICAN DREAMS" IN THIS "GREAT COUNTRY OF IMMIGRANTS".WHY NOT EVERYBODY THINKS THAT THIS IS A COUNTRY OF IMMIGRANTS BUILD STRONG BY IMMIGRANTS,LEGAL OR ILLEGAL IS EVERY BODY CAME HERE LEGALY? THINK ABOUT 30,40 OR60 YEARS AGO? WE HAVE LOT OF STORIES PEOPLE CAME HERE NOT LEGALY BUT ILLEGALY & ADJUSTED THERE STATUS HERE WITH NO FINE NO CRITICIZED,ABSOLOUTLY WITH HONOUR.THEY NEVER GAVE ANY HARDLE TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY--"COUNTRY OF IMMIGRANTS". SO I THINK FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO THEY ARE HERE FOR MORE THAN 7 YEARS BEFORE 9/11 INCIDENCE HAVE RIGHTS TO GET LEGAL STATUS WITHOUT ANY FINE IF THEY ARE PAYING TAXES & HAVE NO CRIMINAL RECORDS,LIVING HERE WITH MAIN STREAM OF THIS LOVLY COUNTRY--- THANKS LOT --PLEASE GIVE THIS MASSAGE TO ALL WHO THEY ARE SPORTING OR OPPOSING THIS TIME. "THE TIMETO FIX IMMIGRATION SYSTEM" FROM --GURDEV BAINS LONG ISLAND NY .

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