ssautin:
I fully support House Bill 1804. I am sorry for the aliens, but we have to live by the law if we are to continue being a great country. If they return legally, we will welcome them with open arms.
If prices go up on products and services go up because they have gone home or to another state, that is a price we should pay. We are treating them like slaves doing work for no benefits and no legal support. I firmly believe that is in their best interest to return here as legal workers.
Citizenship is earned not stolen. All US citizens have earned the right to live here. My ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, in Viet Nam, and in Desert Storm. We have pride and they can earn this pride, too.
I also believe that children born of illegal residents should not be given automatic citizenship. This is rewarding families for braking the law. Plus, this might discourage parents sneaking into the US so that their child will be a naturalized citizen.
It is tough love for our county and for the aliens. We need to stand strong now, not later.
“ I am sorry for the aliens, but we have to live by the law if we are to continue being a great country. “
I agree that laws weren't meant to be broken and unlike the other user who commented that people break the law everyday, this still shouldn't be over looked. Laws are laws whether we like them or not, that’s the reason we vote and elect people to make those laws or change them.
Your opinion of this matter is fairly stated, it isn't biased nor one sided. I expected this forum to be flooded by ignorant, one sided, hill Billy, country folk, who could careless about taking the land of the Indians and claiming it as there own, only to see the offspring of a white supremacist race! Oklahoma is pre-dominantly white Caucasian people, so coming into this forum, I expected radical, crazy ideas but much to my surprise, the turn out ratio isn’t just that. You however, seem like a nice patriotic person. Your heart is in the right place and that’s behind America, our beloved United States! The problem in my eyes is that we as Americans need someone to blame and we react franticly and don’t rationalize and come to our senses that immigration will always be an issue.
I definitely think that we should rewrite the book and enforce strict immigration laws, but for the ones we have here, we should have them accounted for and give them a chance to contribute to this fine state of Oklahoma and to the nation as a whole. We should allow the ones here a chance to become legalized and to go through a procedure and series of tests and things along those lines. It is very well said that, human nature is to fear what it does not understand therefore, it doesn’t strike me as a surprise that 1804 was passed, it doesn’t surprise me one bit! Again, we live in a dominate Caucasian society and quote unquote, “We don’t want to see another California or Texas”, yet when you talk about it, aren’t those the states that everybody brags about in regards as to how great they are? LOL, does none of this connect or go through people’s mind?
In conclusion, I’m against the bill 1804 (obviously) and I strongly believe that Oklahoma could have gone and done a better job of developing a better immigration Law. In my mind, Oklahoma took the easy way out which was to simply depart illegal aliens. Once again, it took a tragedy such as 9-11 to open people’s eyes and we lost more Americans out at war than we ever did on 9-11, how does that equal out? we focus now on securing our borders and deporting illegal aliens rather than focusing on the real issues, we as Americans need someone or something to blame, Look at America Vs. Hip Hop, we blame rap music instead of blaming the individuals who commit crimes (but that’s another story), why not blame the movie industry and the violent video games as well, no instead, we target Hip Hop. Apply that same concept to what we’re doing with Immigration, we simply need something or someone to blame, we need to do radical things in order to feel safe at night when we sleep. illegal aliens or better yet Latinos didn’t crash the planes through the twin towers, it was legalized middle eastern folk, I AGREE THAT WE NEED TO DEVELOP AND FOCUS AND ENFORCE OUR LAWS BUT THIS IS SURELY A BETTER WAY TO DO IT AND THIS SURE AS HELL AINT THE RIGHT WAY TO GO ABOUT IT!
AMERICA, WE WERE FOUNDED ON IMMIGRATION.
TALK ABOUT A REALITY CHECK SLOGAN.
NEED I SAY MORE?