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[quote=Anonymous]My honest answer is that I am really disappointed in the immigration system.  I do believe we should accept refugees for asylum who are in critical danger and who have risked their lives in their country to speak out against injustice.

I also think that there is room in this country for many hardworking ambitious people who aren't highly skilled. But as someone who works in a field where people from all over the world come here to learn and can't work, it boils my blood that by not properly regulating employment of people we have allowed immigration to default to who comes and stays rather than having a sane system to make sure we can accept as many of the most deserving people we can, but not more.

I don't buy your stereotypes of illegal immigrants as parasites.  Most of them are trying to do the right thing, work hard and get the best for their families, abide by laws and live as part of society.  But we have failed the whole community of people who would like to come here by not regulating things and allowing a huge huge class of people living in the shadows for many years.

I'd like to see much more honest legal immigation of skilled workers, immigrants sponsored by citizen relatives and legitimate refugees and lots of space for a diverse set of people from all over the world who are aspiring to arrive here and do good things.  I'd like our immigration bureaucracy to work well enough that people don't cheat hte system out of mere frustration.  I'd like employers who hire illegal immigrants either via fake SSNs or under the table to be penalized for real. I don't see penalizing the immigrants themselves as useful.  I don't know what to do about the kids of illegal immigrants who got dragged into this mess against their volition.[/quote]

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