Quote Originally Posted by RedStarWarrior View Post
We should work on making it easier for them to become a citizen. Those that are in the country illegally should be deported, though. At least focus on deporting the ones that cause problems.
This post I agree with.

It seems like in the case of immigration, there have been too many standards to play regarding citizenship, usually costing a near lifetime's fortune just to emigrate from their home country and come to ours, and then having to be tested, quite possibly too hard, in order to be granted their "magical green card."

But much like Heald's problem in the UK, the language barrier can become very vast, especially in more exotic areas like California and, personally, Florida. The Hispanic population is sizable even in the panhandle with migrant workers and Cubans, in which many advertisements will be Spanish only or bilingual for easy understanding. Even then, I'll go out and see a Vietnamese or Chinese family, often hardly knowing English and using their own kids as interpreter, and using what French I know, I'll step in every now and then to offer help to the occasional Haitian. This mass diversity has led to official education documents to having Spanish and Creole translations, and every teacher must be certified in teaching to students who are speaking English as a second or so language.

I look at it at a different way from probably the majority of you, though. Some of these illegals are doing this to support the family members that stay behind in their home countries, in which getting a job is the only true way they could possibly get a permit to work and live as an immigrant. By working here in America and sending back a portion of their income, the family that are still back home at least have something to use to live. I really don't see what's so wrong about losing "billions" when these countries are ridiculed as being "second or third-world."

But closing the border still sounds like a mark of racism in some perspective. While there is crime committed by these so-called "aliens" on occasion, what is there to say about the great number of crimes committed by citizens? What about the drugs that are exchanged by citizens? The "terrorists" that are American citizens? The solution I see is to lower the immigration standards, especially in helping more needy families, yet those who entered illegally should be deported or given a chance to apply for citizenship, depending on their criminal record while residing in America. Deportation in this case should lower the number of illegal entries, in my opinion.

tl;dr Be lenient on the standards