Immigration Reform
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Comment by Administrator — March 11, 2006 #
Too many illegals - we need to gain control of our border.
Comment by Sterling — March 29, 2006 #
You have been duped. You have it all wrong. Illegal aliens are not the issue. They are not the ones stealing our jobs. Wake up! Can’t you see? This is just another ploy of the capitalist class pitting one group of workers against another. The real travesty is NAFTA, and now CAFTA. These are the issues. Another issue is the number of “legal” immigrants that corporations bring in each year (far beyond their quotas) that take high-paying, highly skilled jobs. This is the issue. Education is the issue. Stop wasting your time trying to scapegoat the Mexicans… you’re only shooting yourself in the foot.
Comment by Rational Riley — June 1, 2006 #
Peope oftentimes, risk life and limb to come to our country to have a better life for themselves and their families. Who are we to tell them that these opportunities are not for them. It is easy to rationalize this decision from this side of the border. What if you were on the other side?
Comment by Kevin Scroggins — July 18, 2006 #
The issue is quite complex, far beyond what our forefathers could have conceptualized at the writing of our constitution. In all of life there are limitations we must acknowledge and learn to live with and within. Even Jesus told a gentile woman, “It is not right to take the children’s food and feed it to the dogs.” He nor I imply that aliens are dogs in any sense. What his statement reminds us is that we have to establish priorities and perform charity of any kind without sacrificing our first obligations which are to our legal citizens. Yes, educate aliens how to become legal citizens and assist in every way possible. That does not justify taking the budgeted resources for our poor citizens, elderly, infirm or otherwise unable to provide for themselves, and giving it to illegal aliens to entice them to provide cheap labor for the privileged who own properties and want larger profits at anyone’s expense. Look to the outrageous gifts of tax exemptions for billionaires while those who labor have tax increases to make up the difference, and consider how many immigrants we could help with those funds. Political refuge is one thing, but taking the victims of a country rich in resources that chooses not to develop them nor to provide opportunities for their own citizens is illogical and immoral. It simply endorses their indifference to their poor and uneducated. The moral thing to do is take time to teach such countries how to use their natural resources and distribute the profits to the people in the form of free education, food and health care.
Comment by Louise — September 16, 2006 #
The Cold War is over so we don’t need to fear the Reds taking our country. The War on Terror is unfolding to be the contrived ranting of a desperate unqualified President and a political party running out of groups to hate and fear and protect us from. Now come the immigrant hoards, threatening us all? To the con;trary, if there were not 12 million undocumented workers in the USA none of us would have meat, chicken, vegetables, fruit, milk to consume in mass quanities at reasonable prices. Wake up America, these are our brothers and sisters, workers just like us.
Comment by Tim — September 16, 2006 #
ACTION ITEM - YOUR PRESENCE REQUESTED AT
Confronting Myths and Building Consensus:
A Community Forum on Immigration
When:
Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where:
Miami University-Hamilton: Wilks Conference Center
Why:
To provide diverse perspectives about the current
issues of Immigration/Immigration reform and to engage in an
open community dialogue about immigrants in the U.S. and
the Tri-State area.
Presented By:
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, NAACP of West
Chester/Hamilton/Fairfield/Mason/Lebanon, Miami
University-Hamilton, LULAC (League of United Latin
American Citizens)
For More Information, Contact:
Michael Griffin, 513-333-7506 or mgriffin@nurfc.org
Charleston Wang will be speaking on the Asian American
aspect of immigration
See also:
http://www.wangnews.net/files/miami.pdf
Please come out to show solidarity on Ohio and federal
immigration issues and with other members of the
immigrant community. For directions to the Wilks
Center at the branch campus of Miami University in the
City of Hamilton , see
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/WCC/index.htm
Comment by Administrator — October 21, 2006 #
I will go to Immigration Forum
Comment by sterling — October 21, 2006 #
COURTESY OF THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
Bill denying aliens rights is immoral
Charleston C.K. Wang
A bill was introduced into the Ohio General Assembly recently that is directed against illegal aliens. Unfortunately, it is also directed against the values of a humane society.
A question raised by Ohio House Bill 654 is whether the illegal alien is a person whose rights are protected under the U.S. Constitution. More fundamentally, does the illegal alien lose his or her inalienable human rights by coming to live and work in Ohio?
America now realizes that there are at least 12 million illegal aliens living with us. What is to be done with such persons? H.B. 654 takes the hard-line approach of duplicating what is already denied illegal aliens under federal immigration law and further seeks to deny them certain constitutional protection, such as the right to post bail bond when charged under Ohio criminal law.
I see a moral parallel between our agony over slavery and our current quandary over immigration. Just as this nation once benefited from the labor of slaves, we are currently benefiting from the labor of illegal aliens. By following the recent federal immigration arrests, one can deduce that some of our homes have been built by such labor. Can we enjoy the benefits of their labor with one hand and deny them the basic rights as persons with the other?
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was enacted, which required the states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons. With this amendment, this nation was one step closer to realizing the not-so-self-evident truth that all persons are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights such as life and liberty.
Now H.B. 654 is poised to create a new underclass of persons in Ohio, beyond what the Congress has seen fit to legislate. Because of basic moral questions and economic factors, H.B. 654 is misguided. The U.S. has the sovereign power to control her borders and to determine who will become her citizens.
Immigration legislation is best made and enforced at the federal level, with focus on preventing further illegal entry across the borders and fairly documenting those who are already here and contributing to the national economy.
Charleston C.K. Wang practices immigration law. He is chair of the Issues Committee of the National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Cincinnati, which is co-sponsoring a community forum on immigration today at Miami University.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061026/EDIT02/610260315/1090
Comment by Charleston Wang — October 26, 2006 #
For those of us who believe that our Founding Fathers got some things right, note the word “all” in the following from the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
It doesn’t say “all citizens.”
Comment by kwlyon — May 2, 2007 #
For those of us who think that the writer(s) of the Old Testament got some things right, check out what it has to say about the treatment of aliens (the word used in the NIV for sojourners or immigrants).
I found 41 verses that deal with how aliens are to be treated, starting with these two:
Exodus 12:49: The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you.
Exodus 22:21: Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.
And including:
Leviticus 19:34: The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 23:22: When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:19: Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow. Then all the people shall say, Amen!
And ending with:
Malachi 3:5: So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, … says the LORD Almighty.
See for yourself. Go to http://www.ibs.org/niv/ and put the words alien and alien in the NIV word search.
Ken
Comment by kwlyon — May 2, 2007 #
WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE,
WITH CHARITY FOR ALL …
With fewer than six weeks before his untimely death, President Abraham Lincoln said these words:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to
see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all
which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Now nearly a century and a half later, these enduring words carry the same wisdom for us.
While not facing the aftermath of four years of bloody civil war, we, nonetheless, are a
people in need of healing among ourselves and with all nations. Four years after invading
Iraq and expenditure of lives and treasure, we are faced with a stalemate and quite possibly
withdrawal in the midst of sectarian civil war in that country. At home the Senate just voted, once again, to set aside much neededcomprehensive immigration reform because some see an invasion of illegal aliens who do not deserve amnesty.
President Bush who prematurely declared “Mission Accomplished” vis-à-vis Iraq, and “See you are the signing,” respecting legislation on immigration reform is burdened with record low approval ratings The Congress too has similar or even lower ratings by the people who elected them. The American people, facing the humiliation of the lack of progress in the war
in Iraq and the looming specter of an ignominious retreat is understandably divided, frustrated, and angry.
In my opinion, it is this division, coupled with the inability of the President to rally the national will, that are the reasons for the failure to complete long overdue reform of our federal immigration law.
I fear worse. Given the inability of America to succeed in Iraq, our national psyche will
pressure some of us to turn our frustration inward against those who are politically most
vulnerable amongst ourselves, the undocumented immigrant. If we cannot impose our will in Iraq, we can surely get our way against those who break our immigration laws. But before we raise the hue and cry once again to round up and deport all those who do not have proper immigration papers, let all of us pacify our spirits, calm our hearts, and focus our reason by reflecting on the immortal words of our great martyr for freedom: “With malice towards none, with charity for all …”
An Opinion by Charleston C. K. Wang - July 16, 2007
Comment by Anonymous — July 23, 2007 #
We need immigrants. We need them to produce the goods and provide the services that the children and grandchildren we didn’t have would have done for us. Given our declining birthrate, who else will take care of us in our old age?
The only question is, will those goods and services be provided by a demonized subclass of “illegal immigrants” or will they be provided by welcome additions to our melting pot.
To me the choice is obvious. Let us welcome the people who want to come here to participate in the American Dream and let us incorporate them into our American Culture.
Europe’s experience with its “guest workers” provides us with a cautionary example. Bringing folks into your country but not allowing them to participate fully in the culture breeds division and strife. We don’t need more of that.
Ken
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