Immigration is a very complicated issue because it affects so many inumerable aspects of our lives, so lets not oversimplify the debate.

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As if there wasn't enough crap coming out of Washington, a piece of legislation presented by Congressman Sensenbrenner (R-WI) passed the Judiciary Committee and will be debated on the floor of Congress week that would essentially criminalize undocumented immigrants in the United States, meaning that NONE of these people would have the opportunity to become "legal" in the country that they live and work in because they would be felons. (Details provided below) How would this in any way solve the immigration conflicts that the U.S. faces? (other jailing folks up) Am I the only one seeing flashing neon swastikas in the homeland?

Think about it

They could be the nicest people in the world, they could write children's books already, but by definition they are criminals. Are they here against the laws of our country? (It's not their country, no matter what fools say.) Then they are criminals.

Immigration could be controlled if the grinding poverty brought about by the corrupt governments the Wall Street government imposes upon its client nations were discontinued, I really don't believe that anyone would leave their home unless the conditions there weren't hopeless. But that would interfere with the profitable exploitation of resources and labor. Old story and a simple one that deliberately is confused in order to perpetuate the system.

Following is an excerpt from a letter I sent to my representative.

I've seen first-hand the hate generated by the anti-immigrant agitators. I think I understand how that will almost inevitably spread to divide our nation; to scapegoat migrants for all the ills of the U.S., so that we fail to address that real causes of our failing social safety net and the disappearance of the middle-class; and to foment anger and jealousy between not just between white people and Mexicans, but between Black people and Brown people. The immigration bill before the House not only criminalizes the poorest and neediest in our midst, it legalizes racial profiling of all people, citizens and non-citizens alike, who are of Mexican, Central American, South American, and Indigenous descent. 

I don't think it's a slippery slope to remember the mass roundups and deportations of millions of U.S. non-citizens and citizens alike in the 1930's and again with Operation Wetback in the 1950's. It seems to me that history is exactly where the proposed immigration bill will lead.