FORT BLISS, United States (AFP) — This sprawling US Army base located at the edge of El Paso and skirting the border with Mexico is undergoing a major expansion that heavily relies on Mexicans for its construction.

Amid growing controversy in the United States over immigration — legal and illegal — the military is using foreign labor to build the base.

Once again, this bill rewards illegal behavior, and offers benefits that aren’t available to our citizens.
It’s wrong, unless you want to give the country away.

Dianne:
One state, California, spends $100 million annually to subsidize the college education of illegal immigrants .

This number, if true, is evidence that we should stop illegal immigration. However, it has nothing to do with the DREAM act considering that beneficiaries of the act would be American citizens- not here illegally.

N2L:
Your links support my point that Presidents are free to comment on bills they sign but not to expect that they carry weight in a court of law :

The signing statement does not nullify part of a bill; provisions rejected by the president remain enforceable in court. Courts always respect valid vetoes; they virtually never pay attention to signing statements.

Marc:
I agree with you that immigration is a process in which other people come to this country learn the culture and the language and we all benefit from this exchange. The DREAM act is consistent with this vision. It is true that these children should not have been brought by their parents to this country without legal documentation. But they were. At that point, the only humane course is to find the kids who have been playing by the rules- graduating high school and college or going to the military- and acknowledge this with a promise of citizenship.

ASV:
Actually, the Bible also argues the contrary in Ezekiel 18:20) “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.” In any case, our society often attempts to address the poor choices of parents- school; immunization; and car seats are all mandatory.

I am amazed that you are willing to lay the sins of the father upon their children. These children did not choose to come to this country and may not even speak the language of the country where they hold citizenship.

The Bible says “the sins of the fathers WILL be visited upon the sons” – because like it or not, it is a fact of Nature: what we do affects future circumstances. Part of being a good parent is to make responsible choices that don’t have negative repercussions for our children.

The children of American criminals suffer hardship when Mom or Dad go to prison for their crimes. We do not consider it the responsibility of American taxpayers to “undo” the consequences of their bad choices.

So why are the rest of us responsible for repairing the damage these illegals do to their children by their decision to break our Immigration Law?

In addition, many, MANY of these illegals deliberately delivered children here as “anchor babies” to insure that the rest of the family could obtain entry later.

I REFUSE to be suckered by pure emotionalism into feeling responsible for the bad consequences of others’ actions.

Actually, what nation on earth has as much success in assimilating immigrants as the United States?

The US invented ‘the melting pot ’cause it needed to..

Guest worker programs, most assuredly, are not and will lead us to the disaster of a European-style permanent immigrant underclass.

This happened in the 60′s and early 70′s only and to ‘melt in Europe’ is a bit harder – it actually has a history.

Furthermore some nationalities have less problems to fit in, like Turkish, Surinamese, Chinese and Korean for others like Moroccan it’s much harder.

And how about this:

Amsterdam again city with the most nationalities (177) in the world

The inhabitants of Amsterdam have together 177 different nationalities. This is up 1 from 2006.

As for this legislation, it is an abomination for a free and sovereign nation, and no sob stories will alter my opinion.

I’m sure Preston finds this chicken feed. Well, that chicken feed comes from my taxes, Preston. But, I can handle it, although grudgingly. What pisses me off is that my kids can’t. They’re already struggling and paying taxes and to add insult to injury are educating illegals at the expense of their own kids.

Doesn’t anybody care about Americans anymore?