3.1 Million Potential Orphans

Nothing like a good article to goad conservatives. Interest point but I don’t see much to be concerned over.

It’s a little hard to actually say since there don’t seem to be any facts cited here. I’m not sure of the policy or what is currently occurring but I’m not really concerned. I’ve never heard of a family being split up in an instance like this and my guess is that this would make news if it ever happened. I assume that theoretically it is possible that the policy could allow a family to be broken up, but this is far from reality. Americans still understand family values and I assume that whatever policy was carried out the family would be preserved as best as it could.

I do also disagree that our immigration policy should make it’s highest priority “uniting and keeping families together”. This is clearly a secondary issue and it is very dangerous to change this precedent. If this were the case we would let all criminals off if they had family. This would clearly be disastrous. This instead should encourage parents to obey the law and governments to create family friendly laws to help families stay together. Immigration laws are first about protecting our country that we have worked so hard to create. If you let this slip, families will suffer more.

This seems a half-hearted attempt to get people to swallow his immigration policy. It is a decent reason for creating a good all-encompassing immigration policy. It will certainly help families. But we still need to prevent illegal immigration, encourage legal immigration and protect our national identity. I’ll go for those things.

TO ALL OF THE NEW CITIZENS WHO HAVE CAME TO THE U.S.A. CORRECTLY BY U.S.A. LAW, I SAY TO YOU WELCOME AND ENJOY YOUR NEW LIFE IN YOUR NEW COUNTRY. TO ALL OF YOU THAT ARE HERE IN THE U.S.A. ILLEGALLY, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME AND LEAVE. THE ROOT OF THIS PROBLEM OF PLUS 12,000,000 ILLEGALS IS THEIR EMPLOYEER WHO HAVE ALSO BROKE THE LAW BY EMPLOYEEING THE ILLEGALS. THE U.S.A. HAS 13 LEGAL WORK PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE TO COME TO THE U.S.A. UNDER THESE BY GOVERMENT CONTROL. THE GROUPS THAT FILE TAX EXAMPT WHEN THEY SPEAK OUT ON A POLITICAL ISSUE OR CADIDATE SHOULD PAY TAX. THE 1913 I.R.S. RULE 501 (C) (3) NEEDS TO BE UP DATED. THE 14TH AMENDMENT WAS NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF A PERSON BEING IN OUR COUNTRY BY THEIR OWN FREE WILL ILLEGALLY AND HAVEING A CHILD TO BE A CITIZEN. CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY ON THE DRED SCOTT CASE OF 1857 DEALT WITH SLAVES. IT IS TIME THAT A CASE OF THE ILLEGAL'S CHILD GOES TO THE SUPREME COURT VRS THE XIV AMENDMENT. ALL NATIONS (STATES) HAVE BORDERS, EVEN THE VATICAN.

Where is the evidence that USA taxpayers are or will be ripping even one child of illegal immigrants from their parents arms??

It is a horror, Bishops or no. Endless craziness afoot re the immigration issue. Where is our president?

And why would said deported illegal immigrants/parents leave their children here defenseless and alone???

Whereas I agree with Thomas Reese in "that any immigration policy should have as its highest priority uniting and keeping families together," that we do not want to break up families nor do we want millions of children to become wards of the state, there are two significant problems that the author failed to address.

The first is that many illegal aliens know that Americans are loathe to separate families, and therefore purposely plan to have a child born on U.S. soil. They are known as "anchor" babies, because they become an anchor to hold the rest of the family here in the country.

The second is that whereas I would be in favor of an "earned legalization" policy for all aliens, why should we allow those that basically "cut in line" to gain advantage on those that play by the rules.

That immigration policies and the immigration department itself is in need of a complete overhaul is a given. But the major factor in why the immigration practice is so slow for those that abide by the rules is because INS has its hands full trying to deal with the undocumented workers that did not.