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Originally Posted by jms62
Fair for all except our kids who will have even a more difficult task finding a job.  Fair in a Depression no less? |
These ARE "our" kids. They don't know they were illegal. They made no choice. They have no fault in this. They had no choice to come here.
These children grew up as American citizens, as your and my children did, pledging allegiance to our flag, playing soccer, eating McDonalds, living life as an American. They are your childrens friends and schoolmates. They have served in our military and given years or their lives or limbs. They work and pay taxes.
Their illegal parents pay taxes (Medicare, Social Security) into a system, taxes they will never get out and we get in the pool for free. Their illegal parents pay taxes daily: property taxes through rent, taxes on the gasoline they purchase, the food they purchase, the items they purchase. I agree, those that choose to be here illegally as adults should be deported.
These children deserve no deportation, no tearing of the life they know to bits, being taken out of their homes, friends, schools and neighborhoods to be sent away to a strange country. They are American in every single same sense that my parents, the children of legal immigrants, were. They deserve the right to be allowed a path to legal citizenship - they are already Americans, our fellow Americans.