Regarding illegal immigration: Another person here basically said to go after the Big Guys. I agree 100%. Punish the Big Guys.

Me taking out my frustrations on the illegal immigrants is sort of like blaming the Iraq Invasion ’03 on the foot soldiers.

American law and rules are selectively applied, and christian bias through the american majority populace is evident across this wide land.

Second generation or not, fair or not, american rules are just those of convenience, and this website can try to push pluralism. But until it breaks down the american seduction with the bible thumping blind evangilism, nothing american does will really matter in terms of making a change that is sustainable. Change starts at home.

No wonder Narendra Modi is becoming popular across rural idaho and southern maine. Kid me not, I ran into some white 41 year old farmer and the guy was talking about the modi effect on idaho. DAMN!

Jai ho, you ivtory tower miscreants

Most illegals who come here are very poor or like Minhaz a refugee who has left everything behind. They have no choice but to steal into another country and just try to raise their children and have a better shot at life. If you have legal citizenship and some wealth, have some compassion. It’s not about rules.

We have enough money to take in people who want to work hard here and raise their children. We don’t have money for 900 military bases around the world and a “defense” budget that is in the trillions. Somehow we find money to build weapons, keep dictators in power, and invade other people’s countries but no money to give subsidized health care to our old and poor. What kind of rule do we live with?

Sorry to derail the thread. I hope Minhaz gets to stay in the country, get a good job, and buy his mother a nice house and take her out for manicures and fancy dinners.

Thanks for this post, Taz.

Illegal immigration is present where there is opportunity. Want to get rid of illegal immigration? Okay then fine and arrest employers who hire illegals for pennies to pick produce in the heat so that you can buy a cabbage for 3 dollars instead of the $15 it would cost if the farmers hired legals and paid minimum wage and insurance. Most of the illegals work in corporatized establishments like food service, construction, and farming. You still don’t want illegals? Then grow food locally with local people chipping in during harvest time, like they used to, which is why schools are out for the summer months. Don’t create housing bubbles with faceless, nameless drones writing out mortgages and then betting against them and making millions and losing millions. Someone had to build the cheap houses to feed the bubble. You like your buckets of cheap chicken tenders? Go look inside food processing plants for fast food. They are full of illegals. Why? They allow you have $2 burgers.

Most illegals who come here do so to work hard and make a decent lives for themselves. Don’t punish them. Go after the big guys who are making money off of cheap labor and making this country bankrupt while they fly in private planes and think of more wars to wage and weapons to sell and oil fields to own.

Tell that to the Nazi soldiers who were tried for killing millions of people and were “just doing their jobs.” I’m sure they’d agree with you.

Tell that to Rosa Parks who broke the rules because they were unjust. Tell that to the American Revolutionaries who broke the rules of British law.

“An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonme­nt in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

Minhaz should be allowed to stay in the country because amnesty is given to millions like him every year and he has every right to be here. He didn’t chose to come here, and as a child of an illegal, he should get amnesty.

Although Minhaz is a very nice, intelligent, and value-added person in the USA, a rule is still a rule. His dad broke a rule and put his own family at risk. I believe that they should get punished some how, bu I don’t know what should be done to punish them, but I do think that if we give amnesty to 1,000,000s of S.Americans, we can accommodate this family.

Finally, I know many Sikhs who’ve applied for amnesty. I don’t believe in most of the amnesty cases. If you’re really in trouble, you’ll even try to immigrate to Peru, Venezuela, Poland, or Malaysia.

Readers, how would YOU deal with illegal immigration?