Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Fixing Immigration Policy


Temporary worker program under threat. Thats the headline for news outlining recent developments that are currently written to allow up to 600,000 immigrants to gain working visas.

The United States of America is known and the, "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave," as well as, "The land of opportuity." That is why so many people, particularly our neighbors south of the border want to come here, and rightfully so. Down south, they live in poverty, in shacks made up of scrap metal and scrap linnens, so, why not allow as many as we can accomidate come here to work for a chance at a better life?

The key element in that last statement was "allowing as many as we can accomidate." In a perfect world, the United States could take in anybody and everybody, unfortulately that is not the case. While, revisions are underway, i support the current plans for the documented immigrant worker program, and i hope that more revisons can be made to improve it. I just hope that the changes/revisions are balanced.

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