Ending God's Tax Exempt Status

[queequeger]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I don't understand why an immigrant, convicted of a felony, is so hard to deport.... or why someone that overstays their visa for years, can't be found and deported, while paying taxes every year.
There is a bunch of Nigerians in MA that receive a letter from the feds, every year, telling them their student visa expired X years ago and they must leave the country. They don't respond and the feds do nothing.
The illegal 17 year old Mexican that hit my car and ran, with no drivers license or insurance, is still here. He was in jail and the feds couldn't find him?

These problems could all be solved by deporting every illegal alien and spending more time and money on hunting down the ones we can't find. However, it would be a kinder solution to simply give them citizenship. All the sudden they're no harder or easier to track than you or me.

To me it is very simple - Come here legally or don't come here at all. If you come here illegally then you are a criminal - can't you grasp that basic concept? No? OH thats right - you are the mental midgit.

I speed, I've done illegal drugs, I've sold illegal drugs, I drank underage, etc. Who here hasn't broken laws? I can't imagine it's been very exciting for anyone who's never gone over the speed limit. Why is crossing the border illegally so much more heinous than anything I've done?

I don't buy the concept that this is 'only a legal argument' because what I'm trying to get at is the law is stupid. If the law is stupid, it's stupid to punish people for it. Punishment for it's own sake is likewise a stupid concept.

Regardless, what this all boils down to is that I am entitled to live here because I was born here, and you are NOT entitled to live here because you were born elsewhere. I can't buy it, it's too nasty. So, if you believe entitlement by birth is an OK thing for us to have, then that core belief makes us so different that there's not much common ground to argue from, eh?

And bruce, I'm sorry I pissed you off.