Nice story, doesn't adress the point that had me using the term. A legal imigrant is a documented imigrant, and a documented imigrant is considerably less likely to be a security problem. Open imigration is great, but not unmonitered, undocumented imigration.
--- In [email protected], "steven linnabary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "uncoolrabbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > It might have been missed in the intial post... that the massive > > latino protests are not about imigration. They are about ilegal > > imigration. Pro imigration is great, but the right stance on it right > > now won't bring the political success imagined as the right approach > > is not to support ilegal imigration, wich also would only bring its > > greatest success with non americans. The LP getting vocal here would > > serve to divide the already small LP, and give undue credit to the > > administration. There is a mass of issues that must be resolved before > > open imigration should hit the LP political table, everything from > > imigration system reform to ending the welfare state. > > > > I would say this is a good time to say mum is the word, going pro > > ilegal imigration will not wrestle some great hispanic support for the > > LP away from the democrats. > > > > > > "Illegal". What a word! > > What was once legal becomes illegal with the stroke of a pen. > > I've been a smoker most my life. A year ago, our city council banned > smoking in bars. Now, I can't legally smoke in my favorite bar. The bar > owner will get cited for having ashtrays out, but he leaves "Altoids" tins > out for us. Now I'm an "illegal smoker". Sometimes I might forget to > fasten my seatbelt, which makes me an illegal driver. > > Illegal immigration is something that has been legal, but now is illegal > (without filing incomprehensible government forms). These government forms > are incomprehensible even to many astute lawyers. How can we expect > somebody to do the ridiculous? > > And the republican plan, which supposedly would legalize those here, would > UNDOUBTEDLY lead to fraud as every immigrant would be forced to buy forged > and otherwise fraudulent paperwork to prove their US residence of at least > five years. I don't know many people (other than upper middle class home > owners) that have paperwork going back five years. > > I don't believe that the democrats have any lock on the Hispanic vote. > Historically they may have except in south Florida, but I think it is rather > tenuous. And the democrat party has jumped on the punishing "illegal > immigration" bandwagon. > > This is one of the biggest news stories of the year, and the LP is nowhere > in sight. > > PEACE > Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer > Franklin County Libertarian Party > (614) 891-8841 > P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 > > "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution > inevitable" John F. Kennedy > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
