Protecting undocumented students (families) in DC schools
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Anonymous
PP, you are confusing me with someone else. I posted only what is in bold above. You should also know that I am brown and come from a Spanish-speaking family. My ancestors all became US citizens in 1917. They had been Spanish subjects until 1898. Nevertheless, I am still opposed to illegal, i.e., against the law, immigration, and I am quite certain that my stance on illegal immigration is not motivated by bias against brown Spanish-speaking people. |
Anonymous
New poster here. Lots of people in my family, including my children's grandparents and additional family members we are very close to would love to live in the United States. But, they don't. It's the law, and so they stay in their home country and we visit each other. Undocumented people in the US having children and then expecting the right to stay here in this country because they did so illegally shouldn't be shocked by the application of well-known law. Their kids may have the benefit of being US citizens, and that's the gift the parents received by breaking the law themselves by entering the country illegally and then having children here. But that doesn't mean it is the gift that keeps on giving, with the parents who made the illegal choice to come here also getting the moon double of staying with their kids to preserve family togetherness. You are right that there are no people who are illegal, and that is a terrible term. But there are a lot of undocumented people, and they have no right to remain in the United States, regardless of whether or not they chose to have children born here. I have a family togetherness is such a priority, these parents, who knew what they were doing before having children here, could take their children back with them. Or they could choose to have their children stay in the states with family members or others, or the kids could move temporarily until they are old enough to be on their own in the US. It's the parents who came here undocumented, and decided to have kids here, put their kids in this situation. It's not our government, which is clear about its rules, and has been cleared that their pools may change in either direction over time. |
Anonymous
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I am so tired of the charge that if you support measures to curb illegal immigrants that automatically makes you racist.
America is a land of immigrants and that has been one of its greatest strengths. However, unless you are ready to issue an open invitation to the world, there must be some restrictions on the flow of immigration. This means the greater our tolerance for illegal immigrants, the less opportunities we can offer legal immigrants. Yes, I'll grant you most of them are hard-working, tax-paying people who just want a better life for their families. Do we think their fellow countrymen who wait years to immigrate, following the lawful process would do less? What about the Chinese who live in a politically restrictive country? What about the North Koreans who not only live under communist restrictions, but one where the head of the government is generally acknowledged around the world as unstable, whose policies have caused food shortages? What about the Syrians whose country has been so wracked with war that the flood of immigrants is de-stabilizing the EU? What about the countries in Africa where young boys are forced to be soldiers, or the countries in the Middle East where girls are forbidden to go to school? I bet their parents would be happy to pay taxes to keep their children safe? What about the Sudanese who have been undergoing a genocide for years? Something tells me they would embrace the opportunity to work and pay taxes just for the chance to survive. No, I don't want anybody to suffer, least of all children. Unfortunately there is suffering, great suffering, in this world. I don't blame the illegal immigrants for trying to make better lives for their children - in their shoes I might do the same. I don't know what the answer is to curtailing illegal immigration, but I don't think it racist to say that other Latinos (and Africans, Asians, Arabs, etc.) are just as deserving (more so if they follow the rules that we give them for immigration) and would be just as productive contributing to our society. |
Anonymous
What a stupid comment. I am here legally and probably more successful than you anyway you may want to see you. Have a nice life, and please try not to commit any actual crime given your angry state of mind, or you'll end in jail for life. |
Anonymous
Not angry at all, actually, and wasn't referring to your personal situation, which I don't know anything about of course. Was merely responding to the hypothetical visa overstay scenario under discussion. They are not a murderer or anything close to it. Still, they have to go back. Appreciate your concern. I expect I will be able to avoid jail in the future. Blessedly, advocating for enforcement of immingration law is not (yet) a crime. |
Anonymous
On the other hand if an illegal commits a crime they will deported |
Anonymous
+1 I would add regarding the difficult question of how to handle the illegally-present parents of children born here, that this was never the intended consequence of birthright citizenship. The purpose of birthright citizenship, as I understand it, was to ensure that all former slaves had citizenship. If the drafters of that amendment could have foreseen our current problems then I am sure they would have added a caveat. There are very few OECD countries that allow citizenship by birth regardless of the status of the parents. I believe Canada does, and the UK does or it used to. No continental European country grants citizenship to the children of people who are in the country illegally. It is kind of insane if you think about it. |
Anonymous
| Maryland residents are a much bigger problem than undocumented students. |
Anonymous
| How can illegal families even afford to live in DC given how expensive it is here? Through subsidies that should probably be restricted to legal citizens and residents who have lived here for a while? |
Anonymous
Of course. And I think most immigrants are completely OK with that, especially if the crime is violent or poses a threat to others. We come here to work and to be safe. |
Anonymous
Nope. The magic works this way: 1) work hard, often in several jobs 2) most important: be frugal. For example, share housing with another family (or with your extended one). Don't waste money on frivolities. |
Anonymous
Sort of. The method above is usually used by men and women who are single while in the US (they may have a spouse and children back in their home country) What then often happens, is they have a child (this is where the term anchor baby originates) who is a legal US citizen and is entitled to welfare services such as food stamps, WIC, etc and the parent collects those benefits on the child's behalf. They might still continue to live in a shared housing situation and be frugal as well. If the govt moves to deport the illegal parents, often this is avoided by claiming something like "family preservation". |
Anonymous
Oh my God. This is unbelievable. Please post proof that your ancestors came here legally. I'm pretty sure they did not. Also, you all sound racist. I feel bad for your children. |
Anonymous
We are mixing things here, but it's a good conversation. OK, imagine they give birth to an American kid. Yes, that means they can collect food stamps. But NOPE, it does not mean they stop working as hard as before. They continue with the multiple jobs, and with the frugality, precisely motivated to do their best for said kid. Net net, any study shows that immigrants add more to our revenues than they get back (because they rarely use entitlement programs, especially if they are undocumented) |
Anonymous
I'm sorry, just SHOCKED that this is posted by a DC resident. For what it's worth, I am a US Citizen. I guess since I'm not poor and uneducated like the racist and xenophobic pps, it might explain my attitude. This country needs immigrants. By limiting birthright citizenship to only those who can prove the parents are here legally, you create an underclass of second tier citizens. Even though YOUR family might have come here illegally, you are somehow given rights that more recent immigrants won't be able to enjoy. Finally, idiot, the framers of the constitution did not do birthright citizenship to give slaves citizenship. They were slave owners themselves and considered blacks to be chattel. Might want to crack a book for once. They allowed for birthright citizenship because THEY needed it. They showed up and took the land from others. Come to think of it as an American Indian (don't care if this outs me) only I am here legally. The rest of you xenophobes are not. So if you want to kick out the Mexicans, see yourself out the door as well. |