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jueves, septiembre 20, 2007
Lou Agnese, MATT Board Member, writes

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Last weekend, the San Antonio Express-News published a terrific column on immigration by MATT Board Member Lou Agnese, the president of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.

Commentary: Nothing to fear from consensus on immigration

By Lou Agnese

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Nobel laureate Marie Curie

The immigration debate has been defined by one word: fear. It has driven the incendiary remarks uttered by well-known TV and radio personalities, which oft times border on bigotry, and the sincere, if misinformed, comments from both sides of the political aisle.

Fear that terrorists will be allowed into our country, fear that Americans will lose jobs to immigrants, fear that immigration will cripple our economy and infrastructure.

Fear has led some people to suggest our immigration problems can be solved through the mass deportation of the estimated 12 million people who are here illegally; that’s the equivalent of deporting every man, woman and child in Pennsylvania.


 
   
Comentarios
tweety  dijo...
Those are very real and justified fears. Why can't the pro-illegals see that? Most Americans are not basing their opposition to an illegal invasion of our country on bigotry but on the rule of law and all the negativities of an unsecured border and uncontrolled population growth and the demands it puts on us. This constant demonization of us anti-illegals by name-calling and false accusations has got to stop. It is dividing our nation. How can the pro's call us racists when their reason for wanting this invasion is because those illegals are ethnically like them or motivated by greed? Look in the mirror! We need to go after every employer and make sure they don't have illegals on their payroll and make sure they have a fool proof way of checking a potential employees validity and enforce our labor and immigration laws and secure our borders. The illegals will self-deport without jobs. We have 300 million in this country now, if we deport enough people to the equivilancy of the whole state of Pennysylvania that would be a good start on controlling and stabilizing our population growth.
21 septiembre, 2007 06:09:52 AM

willievok  dijo...
We have to learn to accept our neighbors because most of us came from families that immigrated from other countries. Who's a true American? We can't say it's someone we know because history tells us we're all from other countries except we were born here. To point a finger at me and tell me I don't belong here is an injustice, but there're people that have such sick thinking minds. There's no way deportation can have an effect because more will come to replace them as they leave. Welcome them, and let them become Residents within time until they can finally seek the Dream Of Being A Citizen.
24 septiembre, 2007 10:09:09 AM

tweety  dijo...
It isn't about not accepting our neighbors or anyone else on this planet. It is about the violation of our immigration laws. We are a sovereing nation based on the rule of law. There are millions of potential immigrants that would love to migrate to the U.S. We cannot take in the whole world or we would destroy ourselves. A true American? Well for one thing one has to be a citizen of the U.S. One has to respect it's laws and it's bounderies for starters. The American Dream is for the asking, not for the taking without permission. Once we go after the employers who are hiring illegal aliens, they will go home voluntarily. The rest should be deported as detected. We also need to secure our border by fence, Border Patrol and high tech surveillanc. Once those already here are deported and we secure our borders, their replacements won't be able to get in by any large numbers. Why do you have no respect for a nation's borders?
25 septiembre, 2007 11:09:46 AM

stoptheinvasion  dijo...
It's not about fear you moron! It's about LAW ENFORCEMENT!!!! I am so sick of these liberals in acedemia promoting their fear, hate or racist viewpoints. I am not a xenophobe! ALL ILLEGALS need to go to jail! I am not racist! Regardless of your skin color or where you are from if you are here illegally you need to be arrested and then deported. The financial ruin that the illegals have created in states like California is REAL! The illegals have CRIPPLED California's hospital system.
28 septiembre, 2007 08:09:01 PM

tweety  dijo...
STI, of course liberals are a big part of the problem but an even bigger part of the problem are the ethnocentrics that only care about the raza whether they be here legally or illegally. The last time I went to a clinic here in Calif., I walked back out the door as it was stacked knee deep with Mexicans and their anchors. I would have been in there for hours.
29 septiembre, 2007 05:09:22 AM

bob schmidt  dijo...

The article is far to one-sided to be credible.

Although I disagree with the antis, they are by and large very decent people. But some high profile self-appointed spokespersons for the illegals try to create fear of the antis. They villify the antis calling them Nazis, facists, haters, and other ad hominem attacks when in reality, the worst that can be said about the antis is that they are mistaken on this issue.

Until the Lou Agnese's of the debate are honest and avoid bogus debate points, the issue will not be solved.

10 octubre, 2007 06:10:51 PM

ultima  dijo...
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Nobel laureate Marie Curie Even a Nobel laureate can be wrong as Madam Curie is in this case. There is much to fear in this life. In fact, she admits it herself in her last phrase "so that we may fear less". In other words she is admitting that even with more understanding, we may still have fears although less than without understanding. Don't tell any child they shouldn't be afraid of strangers, especially those who may attempt to kidnap them or do them bodily harm. Don't tell anyone they shouldn't be afraid of entering dark alleys or certain parts of town alone. There are a gazillion of fears that we all should accept as healthy.
17 octubre, 2007 05:10:13 PM

ultima  dijo...
Make no mistake about it, the 12 million could be deported just as 9.8 million Germans were expelled from Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia after WWII. I am not advocating such a move but I am an advocate of deporting enough to send the message that we are serious about border security and enforcement. And we need to jail all repeat offenders to strengthen that message.
17 octubre, 2007 06:10:45 PM

ultima  dijo...
The thoughts behind the concern about illegal aliens include: the Mexicanization of America that is already taking place in California; the encroachment of the Spanish language into our every day life and the loss of that single most important unifying influence in our society, a common language; the unfettered population growth that is the result of illegal aliens, excessive legal immigration, their higher fertility rates and their 14th amendment progeny; the additional pollution they will produce at 20 metric tons per year per capita (that's 4 billion more tons per year before the end of this century)and the resultant destruction of the polar ice cap and the magnificent polar bear's habitat ( and those are the least of the potential irreversible effects of climate change,the declining natural resources of a once richly endowed land,increased traffic congestion, extinction of species, depletion of arable land and available water. Lou Agnese must have his head in the sand or be so taken by La Hermandad de la Raza that he is unable to see any point of view other than the one he expressed above. Is he being purposely disingenuous? I demand an explanation.
17 octubre, 2007 06:10:52 PM

miss_irene  dijo...
Don't forget the energy implications Ultima. 100 million more New Americans brought here by amnesty and family reunification would make us slaves of the Arabs forever. Energy independence would be a distant unobtainable dream if that were to happen. I laugh at idiots like Hitlery and Obama who talk amnesty and family reunification out of one side of their mouth, and "energy independence" out of their other side. Yeah right, they are going to get us off foreign oil while importing 100 million energy-using "New Americans" into the country.
17 octubre, 2007 09:10:45 PM



 

 
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