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Old 08-02-2010, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by starang21 View Post
and people will villanize anyone who they want. how they want. and just because someone is villanizing them, doesn't mean they're dehumanizing them.
Society does both to illegal immigrants. Just because "people do it" doesn't make it OK.





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some of them are. but that still doesnt' mean that narcotics should be legal.
Jumping from "Drug laws have problems" to "Narcotics should be legal." is stupid. As is comparing drug laws to immigration.

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Originally Posted by preciousjeni View Post
And best believe that undocumented residents have access to funds (and I'm not talking about drug related income). I work for a nonprofit that uses pay stubs to validate income. When you have no pay stub, you qualify for a lot. Meanwhile, some of these families are driving nicer cars than mine and carrying designer handbags. I don't fault them at all. They're just being American and, truth be told, they don't have the same liberties I do. But, wouldn't it be nice to be able to get a little of that change to pay for programs like the ones my nonprofit provides?
Exactly. The vast majority want to be a part of society here, with the rights and responsibilities that entails.

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i dont have an issue with punishing companies, but i don't think the line should be any easier or shorter. these people shouldn't be put at the front. should they get put ahead of those who actually have been standing in the line?
This is why you fix the line at the same time. In some ways people who've been here for 20 years instead of being "in line" have contributed more to the US than the line standers have.
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