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Sir, You ask in your article if there is a middle ground between blanket deportation and blanket amnesty. I feel the answer has to be no. We ARE a nation of laws. When somebody breaks the law everyday they are in the states illegally, you would think that sooner or later they would get caught and deported.
Just because the federal government has been willing to ignore this issue, so that business can employ, pay lower salaries, not provide health care, not pay employee taxes, doesn't make it right. If a business cannot stay profitable without taking advantage of a group of people who do not have a 'legal' say in this country, then that business should be allowed to fail. I feel that is the same as business hiring someone to go out and rob other people.
Again, looking for a middle ground, is like looking for how much you can break the law and get away with it. If you ask a Police Officer, a Judge, a Prosecutor, they will tell you "ZERO". The problem with people today, is that they don't feel the need to follow the 'little' LAWS. It's OK to speed. It's OK to follow the car in front of you too closely. It's OK to run a red light, that just changed... Well, its NOT.
We have laws for a reason. They keep people SAFE. When you ask most people who are in our country illegally, they will respond with "we're not here to hurt anybody," "we're not bad people"... Do you think the person who runs a red light and kills 2 people in a crosswalk thought of themselves as a bad person?
When you start looking at laws as big or little, the system starts to break down. If the laws are BAD, then people need to rise up and get them changed. That's why the U.S. is great! We have ways to change things, as necessary, to keep up with the times. But they need to be changed by citizens, not foreign nationals who's first act upon entering this country is to BREAK THE LAW. And as said in your article, you really are short changing the people who come here legally. If they can do it, why can't the others? Because its easier to just enter illegally, and not worry about it. But the person who comes here legally is a BETTER American, then someone who doesn't feel the 'need' to follow the little laws.
So my question to you is, as an American citizen, which laws are OK for me to break day in and day out?
