http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071023/ap_on_el_pr/thompson_immigration
Wow. I can't believe that so many people want to deport the people here who have made a life for themselves without managing to become a citizen. Yes, we have laws against illegal immigration, but we also have moral responsibilities towards our brothers and sisters living around the world and right next door. Yes we need to enforce our borders, but we also need to help people who are already here, as well as the people trying to get here. We have a moral obligation to put illegal immigrants in our country on the path to becoming citizens and help people in other countries become citizens as well. What are we going to do? Deport people who have been living here since they were 4? Another thing- they were willing to put $1 billion into keeping people out of an immigrant- based nation, but they won't give $35 million to poor, sick children? Yes, that makes a whole lot of sense.
Gail Collins, of the New York Times, once said something about "sanctuary cities" that has stuck with me since I read it.
"Wasn't that where Keanu Reeves was trying to get to in the Matrix?"
By the way, if you haven't seen the Matrix, you should. Rent it. It's amazing.
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