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Hi Wynton,

Unlike a lot of other repubs, I am for laxer policies on immigration and amnesty. However the bottom line is that no one in another country has a right to immigrate here, or to try to force us to accept their immigration. Regarding the two most important divergences the article mentions between repub and dem policies:

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First, we will not support proposals that will separate children from their parents.

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Easy answer to this problem. Just change our citizenship law from one of jus soli to jus sanguinis. That way no more conning Uncle Sam by sneaking into the US 8 months pregnant so your child can be born here and you can cry, "He's a US citizen! You can't deport me and separate us!". You should have to have at least one parent be a US citizen to be a citizen or be naturalized yourself. Period.


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Second, we’re going to put the blame for the problem where it belongs. The people coming here to work didn’t want to leave their homes, their parents and relatives and the communities where they grew up. They are economic refugees from an economic Hurricane Katrina unleashed in Mexico and other Latin countries by the extremist free market polices that have been championed by the Republicans ever since the 1980’s.

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Did we make all those countries borrow more money than they could afford to pay back? Do we make them keep cronyist and semi-corrupt governments in power that only benefit the richest elites? Are we responsible for failed socialistic policies of those countries? No is the answer to all three.


Again, I think we should be more liberal with allowing more immigration from Latin America especially, as opposed to other areas. And that we should as well be more willing to amnesty long standing illegal residents even though it is rewarding their illegal immigration. But the bottom line is that we don't owe citizenship to those of other countries and the arguments of the dems above are worthless.