<font face="TIMES" size="3">What tortured interpretation of the 14th amendment are you referring to? Have there been contentious supreme court rulings regarding US citizenship for anyone born on US soil?<br><br>-Scott<br></font><br><b><i>"g. crabtree" <jampot@adelphia.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> If these hotel and restaurant jobs can only be filled by illegals ("jobs <br>Americans will not take") who the heck is working at UIBW, Appleby's, MK4, <br>etc.? To say that our economy would collapse with out illegals is utter <br>hogwash. Some minor changes would have to be made, but to carry on as <br>though the apocalypse were about to occur is nonsense. I think it's time to <br>reign in the hyperbole. There's no question but that the boarders should be <br>tightened up and that our overall policy on immigration reviewed. (the <br>tortured interpretation of the
14th amendment in particular) Then and only <br>then should we be looking at what route we might want to take regarding the <br>current crop of "undocumented aliens."<br><br>gc<br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: <nickgier@adelphia.net><br>To: <vision2020@moscow.com><br>Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:46 PM<br>Subject: [Vision2020] How can they do it legally?<br><br><br>> Greetings:<br>><br>> Those who want to build a wall at the border and felonize the illegals and <br>> same people who repeat a manta that goes something like this: "Go to the <br>> American embassy in your country and apply for a visa."<br>><br>> I just read today that the quota for Mexican applicants for restaurant and <br>> hotel workers is a mere 5,000, and there are probably at least 10 times <br>> that number of undocumented workers itaking such jobs in California alone. <br>> The American economy would collapse if these people, who could not get a <br>> visa if
they tried, could not work in jobs that Americans will not take.<br>><br>> Thanks, Andrea, for showing the cynical role that Republican leaning <br>> businesses play in all this.<br>><br>> Nick Gier<br>><br>> _____________________________________________________<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> http://www.fsr.net<br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>><br>> <br><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br>
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