Will immigration reform pass? (2013, middle east, born, illegal aliens)
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I read a sermon today that says "Europe and the United states citizens don't deserve safety and prosperity because they were born there". I'm sorry but that got under my skin. MOST of us by culture adhere to the notion of making rational decisions about issues (yeh, we have a couple of political minorities who differ). That atmosphere of rationality is what makes this place more safe and prosperous than the countries that are shedding refugees in this world. They all head for our part of the world. But the Boston bombing demonstrates how they carry the culture of jeopardy and uselessness with them. They fall into ethnic gangs, they blame failure on their host country, not on their unwillingness to leave all the heritage behind. My father was an immigrant and was IMPATIENT to fit in. He didn't say "my home country is better". He said "I'm American and I don't think or talk about the place I left."
Our climate of "sensitivity" has begun to erode our ability to be rational. We can easily destroy the qualities that make this a good place to come to. Or we can decide that what we see in these countries as abhorrent and repel that sort of mentality when it appears on our own turf. Do not blind yourselves Americans. You could have been one of those countries, but education and secularity saved you. Remain rational and secular and don't give in to these sodden emotional appeals. If a refugee isn't willing to become secular enough and rational enough to fit in, they don't belong here!
How often can states outside the Middle East be a place for Al Qaida to chase bystanders to? I think those people need to realize they have to stand up to Al Qaida, not run away.
For the time being it will be put on the back burner, and for good reason. Will it pass? Eventually a form of it will pass, but not quite the way it is written now. Most of us, who are realistic know changes have to be made: we need to do something; we can't send all these people back to the country they came from, but we don't need to give them true amnesty either.
It won't pass as it is written. They want too much, wayyyyyy to much. Plus, they'll howl like banshees if the border is sealed off completely.
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