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customerserviceguy

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2. Good point

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Sat May 5, 2012, 02:43 PM

May 2012

I'm a legal immigrant, too.

One of the reasons that many Americans do not support a new amnesty is that they see the failures of the last one. Today, we live in a United States where ordinary citizens have to jump through hoops to get employed, yet the Reagan-signed law of a quarter century ago has done nothing to dissuade illegal immigration.

Why should we think that a new one will not just be a further magnet to illegal immigration? Hang out for a few decades, and you'll be forgiven for breaking any law we enact. How is keeping the status quo any worse than that?

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