sanshouheil wrote: For Mr McCain to attempt to push through congress an amnesty bill for illegal imigrants. Key word "illegal" Was enough to turn me against him.
This sounds much worse than it is bro.
For decades and decades, illegal immigration was WELCOMED in this country, with a "don't ask don't tell" kind of mentality. 9-11 has changed those priorities.
The problem is, that, even though illegal, many, well most really, of these people have bolstered the economy, they have contributed to American businesses as consumers, renting homes, paying electric bills, buying automobiles and food, and furniture etc... They have sometimes done this for years, and even a decade or more. They have built up lives here, and had children born here. It is heartless, to just seize their property and thrown them out, like trash.
Also, consider, that under zero-tolerance policies, a soldier could have been engaged and maybe even married to a foreign national, who shared his home with him, maybe even had a child with him. He dies in Iraq, and the paper-work, which can take years, has not gone through, and she suddenly loses everything, and is sent back to her country? The children born here, as far as I know, are still American citizens, but their parents may not be. Theoretically, the parents can be sent back and the children be made wards of the state. Or do we send back the children with them, essentially banishing American citizens who, through no fault of their own, were born on our soil?
McCain preaches that we are a country that must maintain sovereignty, and protect our borders, but for many people that have been here, and built up lives over many years, contributing to our country's well-being, that we are not a heartless people. These are God's children too, and there must be a fair and reasonable way, to deal with special cases, of illegal immigrants here.
I think that is a reasonable approach to this issue. Extremism is ususally wrong, whichever way it shows itself. The liberal extreme is almost to let anyone cross our borders unchecked and grant them some form of legal status, let illegals vote in elections, etc... That is irrational. But so is it wrong, on the conservative extreme, of banishing everyone from this country, no matter how long they have been here, how much they have contributed, or whether they had children born here.
There should be a reasonable balance. And I think McCain is trying to find that happy medium.