Originally Posted by tony286

The senate passed an immigration bill over 500 days ago and it was truly bipartisan. Congress sat on it and the speaker refused to give it a up or down vote. They were not planning on doing anything, the speaker was asked after their big win if they vote on the immigration bill and he was very vague.

Originally Posted by Robbie

I agree with everything that Obama said last night in his speech when he was talking about the people from Mexico in the U.S. "illegally".

But just like "Health Care"...the govt. is doing it all wrong.

Instead of all this bullshit and "securing the border" like the Republicans want to do (building our version of the Berlin Wall)...how about they simply re-write the rules to gain citizenship?

Why does it have to take years and cost a ton of money to become a citizen?

The United States that I grew up in was a beacon of hope and freedom. The Statue of Liberty is inscribed: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

The United States I live in now seems to have lost it's way.

As I said, there is no need for "amnesty" or "securing the border" or any of this other nonsense.

People SHOULD be able to travel freely back and forth to Mexico. We certainly did for a couple of hundred years with no problems.

There shouldn't even be a "path to citizenship". It's already TOO FUCKING HARD if it takes a "path".
Most of us wouldn't even be here if our great-great-great grandparents had to try and jump through the hoops that our govt. has set up for immigrants.

If people want to come to live in the United States...let them. Especially the Mexican people.
My family owned citrus groves in Florida and I can first hand tell you that they are some of the most hard working people I have ever known.