TwinCities.com/Pioneer Press
by Rosalind S. Helderman
March 22, 2013


Advocates of a far-reaching overhaul of the nation's immigration system are hoping to use their allies on the religious right to prod the Republican Party to embrace reform.

They aim to use a broad consensus among religious leaders and institutions to promote a rewrite of immigration laws as a moral imperative, mobilizing conservatives to pressure the Republican politicians they have long supported on the basis of other issues.

Their efforts come as the GOP is reassessing its position on immigration, including opposition to normalizing the status of immigrants who entered the country illegally.

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http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_22...igration-reform

CLOSE THE POROUS BORDER. Anything less is deflection.

There is a good reason the left is pushing so hard for "immigration reform", and it ain't because they think they will make good Americans. The left wants to destroy Americanism and is certainly not out to increase it.

Destroying the rule of law is not moral. Equal treatment is moral.

I realize that most of you don't agree, but I feel differently than most of you on immigration.
Our government has let over eleven million immigrants stay in the United States for many years now.

You can't blame them for wanting a clear path to citizenship. Thousands of the kids were born here, know no other life than the one they have here & can't contemplate living anywhere else. It's too late to send them back!
I don't know the answer but it seems to me that we need to take some kind of action instead of letting it ride on & on.

Our government, democrats & republicans, has ceased to function with competent decisive actions. Immigration, the budget, nothing ever gets done.
In the meantime, our immigrants are having more & more babies that will be put on the government dole.
Most Mexicans are hard working people. Let them start earning their wages and start paying taxes like the rest of us.

Yes, Olivia, I do disagree. First, the number is not 11 million. It is much higher. Secondly, we don't send them home. We enforce existing laws and allow them to go home.

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Yes, Olivia, I do disagree. First, the number is not 11 million. It is much higher. Secondly, we don't send them home. We enforce existing laws and allow them to go home.

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Yes, Olivia, I do disagree. First, the number is not 11 million. It is much higher. Secondly, we don't send them home. We enforce existing laws and allow them to go home.

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Do you realistic think they'll "go home" when over half of them were born here? It's too late to send them home because in their mind, they are at home. Our government is to blame & that includes George Bush.
It's a tangles mess made by our own government and no laws will be enforced and they won't be going home.

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