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Teresa Serrano has been an adult for four years, and every day for those four years she has told America that its laws don't apply to her.
There is no right to live in the U.S. illegally. Send her home.
There is no shortage of 3rd world countries with abundant mineral wealth, rich soil and abundant cheap labor - all of them dismally poor, yet those that put their mind to it live extremely well.
This is just a peek through the door of what we are fast becoming since we see nothing wrong with importing poverty, systematically eroding standards and rabidly defaulting to the lowest common denominator in the name of social justice and civil rights. 3rd world countries hold a great lesson for us - stark and undeniably the crippling divide between the very wealthy and abjectly poor!
We are now a nation of investors and ever poorer servants. Bringing in more poor people serves only to make the rest of us feel better by comparison, while increasing the divide¬. This human Ponzi scheme needs to end.
We have to raise the bar on our leaders and get the US back on track. Absent any other viable agenda, the Tea Party will not only survive but must flourish if we as a nation are to continue to prosper.
Before we get all the mindless demonizing, vitriol and nastiness, I am not a Tea Party member and probably will never be since by default there are factions there that I am highly uncomfortable with. My Point? That does not mean that in the big picture what they are trying to do is wrong.
This is a good reason why foreigners should obey immigration laws.
I suggest she look for work in her country.
There are hundreds of millions of poor and struggling people in this world - many of whom "deserve" a chance. Given that we cannot help them all, the one thing we can and I believe are morally bound to do is to make our immigration policy as balanced and rational as possible, not set up to favor any particular region.
The EU has proven that open borders do not work for the reason that it gets abused to the great detriment of citizens. Systems get overwhelmed by freeloaders so many EU countries are reintroducing border controls to combat this.
Equally as we have seen over the last 30 years, any such system can and will only work if we are able to regulate effectively. Without the will and means to regulate we will simply exacerbate the mess we have now.
But, then, your reading comprehension can't be all that good, considering that part of her concern is her ability to stay near her family (mother, father and brother), who all live in the US.
Actually, I think it's a crying shame that Yale is contributing to this whole debacle.
It's for the money
So get documented. Or is that asking too much?
Try Denmark, which is part of the EU but has reinstated border controls and who charges illegals, their family and employers the cost of their deportation. Or the UK that has voted to deport illegals to the country of entry into the EU, or France that has deported Romanian Gypsy's en mass for illegal immigration.
took a Yale University enrollment position and opportunity away-
from another United States student and citizen.
What a remarkably wrong-headed policy.
But that would not fit your prejudiced model, would it?
if NOT her-
perhaps her opening WOULD have gone to an American citizen.
You ASSUME that which you cannot know to be true.
You can then hire an immigration attorney when you get an offer of employment. This will lead to residency. After that, three years later you can apply for citizenship.
I'f I were young and had an Ivy League college degree I would be looking to get out of the US. The American Century is over.
1. How people love to talk about money here: in restaurants discussing stocks, on the radio, on TV... reporting the Dow Jones but not famines. Having a social conscience is an unpatriotic mortal sin.
2. Kids are told they must give something back as if they are in debt to someone;
it's a throwback to indentured servants.
Slavery is supposed to be dead but a lot of people in the south still ain't too happy about that.
3. Any nation's greatest national resource is its people
but here in the US they are abused instead of respected and valued.
In education the must pay until they are in debt they cannot pay back. And who cares?
Education and health care are not seen as a government's resposability but taxes pay for wars?!!
Workers' rights are not considered, people fired on a whim
and anyone who complains is called a commie or unAmerican.
Ignoring the rights of millions of people because they look different or speak differently
even as we exploit them in low wages, dehumanize and demonize them
is the old 'slavery is ok' mentality dressed up in " It'sa complicated immigration issue" excuse for making millions of our neighbors live in fear and misery.
This is America. Don't be too quick to be proud of it.
Your glass must always be half empty, never half full.
The irony of your post is that this family CAME to America-
no one forced them to come here.
If America is SUCH a land of misery and fear-as you state-
than WHY would they come here at all?
You sound very young.
When you are young you learn things-
when you are older, you will understand things.
The first line of the post was astounding to me. It is dead on accurate. "America glorfies wealth and disrespects people."
One thing the right wing and left wing can agree on, is that the USA has peaked economically. We just disagree on who gets the scraps. The right wants a few people to get all the scraps, in the hop that some crumbs will come their way. The left (me) want to take a bite out of the rich's lobster and make sure everyone gets a decent meal.
If you want to know why I came here, it is because I was conceived here. My family goes back to 1640 at the earliest and 1888 at the most recent. With each generation we advanced in education. Now I have two well educated offspring, but I wonder what will become of them in this idiocracy.
It is classic Logical Fallacy of False Equivalencies.
She is NOT American nor are her parents.
She has been given many advantages by our kind hearted system.
She should "give back" to her native country.
Everyone is from somewhere else apart from the indigenous people of this country.
This "kind hearted system" is more than a fallacy, it is a delusion.
Young men are sent to kill people in foreign lands so oil tycoons can get richer.
Over 1,000,000 Iraqis died because of a "pre-emtive" strike of a nation that was no threat to us.
Kind system as in government????
Stop reading propaganda!
Illegals are not only entirely legal and at home with friends and family in their countries of origin, they also have full rights in them.
Moreover, people like “Serrano” and her brother are astoundingly blessed to have had an education at American expense, which they can now use to help themselves, their families, and their own country, reducing the need to send still more illegals to America.
Worse, providing amnesty to people in “Serrano”’s circumstances not only encourages an ever increasing tide of illegal immigration, but robs the poor countries of their most educated and ambitious citizens, furthering the poverty that exacerbates the cycle of immigration.
The fact that her parents chose to be illegals was their choice.
They and their families should live with the consequences of that choice rather than whine about them. Moreover, after selling their home in America, they will have what amounts to a fortune in their own country, in addition to bringing two highly educated new citizens home with them.
In the meantime, universities, like Yale, should be required to ascertain the nationality of ALL of its students to help in the effort to dissuade illegal immigration, with jail time for those who fail or refuse to do so.
Agreed !!!
Severely fine employers who hire illegal aliens, send those responsible within the company to prison, send responsible officials in sanctuary cities to prison, send responsible university officials to prison, send all who create the magnets that attract illegals to prison
Has that been accomplished? What makes you believe it can be accomplished? Ranting at the government is not accomplishing anything except making thoughtful compromise impossible.
The illegals from south of the border are not leaving. Telling them to leave is like Archie Bunker telling a lesbian to quit it.