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Originally Posted by sperry
Class, wealth, or formal education have never been a requirement for the "American Dream". In fact just the opposite. The allure of America has been that *anyone* willing to work hard can make a good life for themselves regardless of their background, education, wealth, etc. The problem with America today is that people forget the "hard work" part of the deal, and entitlement is the name of the game these days.
But that doesn't mean our immigration policies don't reflect the original intent of America... which means we try to keep out the lazy people looking for handouts, and I guess the way we check for that is to let the skilled people in and deny the unskilled people... which is kinda what got us into this mess with Mexico, because we really need the unskilled, but hard-working folks that are willing to work for cheap that we're trying so hard to keep out.
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The nice thing about making it easy to come in above-board is that we can deny citizenship and/or decline to renew whatever you want to call the guest/migrant worker program to those who don't act like being here is a privelege (you know, like a healthy minority of the people we can't kick out). And when thos epeople sneak back in, I wouldn't feel guilty about prosecuting and deporting them because they had a fair chance and screwed it up, unlike the current system.