Immigration Roll Call

[Ebowed]

I support open borders and loosening all immigration laws.  I also favor amnesty for illegal immigrants in the US.

[minionofmidas]

Me2.

[DanielX]

I don't. I favor minimal standards for entry. Legal entry should be readily available to non-criminals/terrorists -bujt illegal entry is still illegal and should be treated as such.

[Platypus]

I favour a strong increase of skilled immigration from countries like India, and a higher refugee intake, but a lowering of immigration-without-skills. Of course, with the US it's rather different, it's become reliant on cheap Mexican workers, and it'd be very hard to stem the flow anyway.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I favor the right for anyone to come into this country, but not without a good background check. 

[KillerPollo]

I favor the right for anyone to come into this country, but not without a good background check. 

You're an AMerican. You should have no say in this! anyways, open borders connecting the Tri-country North America, kinda like the EU would be ideal.

[The Duke]

I've usually been pro-immigration, but I'mstarting to reconsider.  The suthwestern US is beginning to have trouble sustaining its population.  In LA, you can't drink the tap water and it takes me 1.5 hours to get from Westchester to Downtown.  Its getting real bad out here, density wise.

[Jake]

I support a six month halt to immigration starting now, a national ID issued to those citizens of this country with random sweeps of homes and deportation if you cannot prove citizenship, and a full lockdown of both borders except for designated control points with an armed citizen militia on patrol with shoot to kill orders.

[7,052,770]

I support a six month halt to immigration starting now, a national ID issued to those citizens of this country with random sweeps of homes and deportation if you cannot prove citizenship, and a full lockdown of both borders except for designated control points with an armed citizen militia on patrol with shoot to kill orders.

um wow....

[Bono]

Only qualified workers should be allowed in.

[A18]

Only qualified workers who support a flat tax, cutting government spending by 50% or more, and abolishing Social Security should be allowed in. Hating FDR is also a plus.

[A18]

I support a six month halt to immigration starting now, a national ID issued to those citizens of this country with random sweeps of homes and deportation if you cannot prove citizenship, and a full lockdown of both borders except for designated control points with an armed citizen militia on patrol with shoot to kill orders.

Replace six months with six decades, and it might be a good idea.

[Bono]

I support a six month halt to immigration starting now, a national ID issued to those citizens of this country with random sweeps of homes and deportation if you cannot prove citizenship, and a full lockdown of both borders except for designated control points with an armed citizen militia on patrol with shoot to kill orders.

Replace six months with six decades, and it might be a good idea.

I hope you aren't serious. As for Jake, I of course expect that he doesn't care about fifth ammendment rights.

[12th Doctor]

I favor losening current immigration laws themselves, with an increased emphasis on oversight.  I oppose illegal immigration, but I think that those who can prove themselves to have been productive citizens while living here (i.e. they have a job and have stayed out of trouble) should be allowed to stay, without question.

[Speed of Sound]

I favor the right for anyone to come into this country, but not without a good background check. 

open borders connecting the Tri-country North America, kinda like the EU would be ideal.

i concur

[A18]

All illegal immigrants residing in the country a few months after a certain date set by the government, and all of their decendents and close relatives, should be forever banned from so much as visting the United States under any circumstance whatsoever. And when caught within our borders, all their assets and property should be seized and used to pay down the national debt, before they are deported, and if caught in the country again, shot.

[Giant Saguaro]

Lockdown of both borders (to whatever degree it's feasible), immigration severely curbed, and deportation of illegal immigrants are things I would like to see.

[© tweed]

All the people here who have said they want to, in effect, get rid of immigration, are hypocrites.  You wouldn't be here without the immigration of your European ancestors.  (My father's side of the family didn't get here until the 1910's).

There should be quotas on legal immigration per year, and illegal immigrants should be deported (and not issued drivers liscences, etc.) and not shot.

[A18]

All the people here who have said they want to, in effect, get rid of immigration, are hypocrites. You wouldn't be here without the immigration of your European ancestors.

How does that make them hypocritical?

[© tweed]

All the people here who have said they want to, in effect, get rid of immigration, are hypocrites. You wouldn't be here without the immigration of your European ancestors.

How does that make them hypocritical?

If such a law had been passed in 1900, or 1800, or whenever, many Americans today would have been denied the oppurtunities they have been given because of free immigration.  If we make immigration illegal now, we deny others the oppurtunity that we have been given.

[Jake]

A lock down is needed to make the ID card program get off the ground Tweed. If you're talking about banning illegals, your comment makes zero sense because my family immigrated here following all immigration laws.

[Bono]

A lock down is needed to make the ID card program get off the ground Tweed. If you're talking about banning illegals, your comment makes zero sense because my family immigrated here following all immigration laws.

Yes you hate freedom we get the point

[© tweed]

A lock down is needed to make the ID card program get off the ground Tweed. If you're talking about banning illegals, your comment makes zero sense because my family immigrated here following all immigration laws.

No, I'm talking about banning all immigration, which you (kind of) and Philip seemed to support.

[Jake]

Wrong, as I explained in the previous post I support halting immigration until we can ascertain citizenship and distribute ID cards. When that process is finished, we can begin allowing legal immigration again.

[AkSaber]

If the Department of Homeland Security were anything like its name, they'd take a big look at the Mexican border. What I would do would be to put the military there, to support the Border Patrol. And build a huge-honkin' fence there. As well as with the Canadian border. I would also change the INS policy on how to handle illegals. Go from catch-and-release, to putting them on a plane, bus, train, car, donkey.... I don't care which, and deport them.