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Originally Posted by Eddies66
How long have people been coming to this country to seek a better life and how long have the current residents been bitching about it. We are a nation of immigrants. How many administrations and Congress failed to address a standard for processing people wanting to come into this country. How many administrations have failed to recognize that the countries that these people are coming from are corrupt. I lived in Central America and seen it first-hand. Example, Standard Brands has been in Honduras for over 100 years, have they done anything for the people of Honduras...NO. When Catholic priests starting telling workers to protest wages and working conditions, they were shot and labeled "communists" by local police, who were bribed by Standard Brands. We need to look at the root causes for people leaving their countries not wait until they are backed up at or border.
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There has been a process to immigrate to this country legally for more than a century. My grandfather did it. Tens of millions have done it. Allowing others to bypass the process is criminal discrimination. So is improperly loosening the process. The process could be improved. However, it is not in the best interest of the nation to dramatically increase the number of immigrants accepted, and certainly not to loosen the requirements. The first responsibility of the United States is to its citizens, and not to potential immigrants.No, the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty does not mean open the borders and accept everyone. That was never the intent.
It is not the responsibility of the United States to become a refugee camp for the world. It is the responsibility of the people of a nation to resolve the issues in their nation. The United States cannot go "fix"all of those corrupt nations, either. Attempts to "police the world" have ended badly as often as not.