tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576880778112123790.post1758669025843738119..comments2023-05-24T16:38:23.091-04:00Comments on Exaeroman: In-State Tuition for Illegals?Jesse McVayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11298986413269759484noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576880778112123790.post-10894424842675593862009-11-24T10:19:40.888-05:002009-11-24T10:19:40.888-05:00In fairness to myself, I didn't send it becaus...In fairness to myself, I didn't send it because I supported everything the author said, I sent it because of his comments about the hard working nature of many illegals, which you yourself have commented on. I also thought that his distinction between people who come to this country to break the law and people who broke the law to come to this country was an important distinction.<br /><br />I also think that his comments about the state of our <b>legal</b> immigration process were right on point, and therefore the demand that illegals "go home and get in line" is an unfair and unrealistic one. If our immigration process is flawed and is forcing would-be legal immigrants to come illegally, then there needs to be a process for determining whether or not "illegal" residents are illegal because we never would have wanted them here in the first place, or are illegal because we, or at least our political process, had been too stupid, petty, xenophobic, and paranoid to have let them in the way we should have.<br /><br />This "process" under the current debate would immediately be thrown out and derided as a "path to citizenship" and "amnesty for law breakers". These simplistic sound bites do little to capture the scope of the problem or of the solution required, and therefore do <b><i>nothing</i></b> to advance the debate about immigration <b>whatsoever</b>.<br /><br />Moderate this comment :Pcitizenslavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06207317755837119659noreply@blogger.com