{"id":534707,"date":"2010-04-19T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011648338_groupscallforimmigrationreform.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-19T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:11:45","slug":"groups-call-for-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534707","title":{"rendered":"Groups call for immigration reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can\u2019t afford to wait on immigrants<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a response to \u201cWe can\u2019t afford to wait on immigration reform\u201d [Opinion, April 15].<\/p>\n

Sure, special-interest groups want open borders that benefit them. All amnesty would do is encourage more people \u2014 millions \u2014 to come here knowing if they waited long enough, they too would automatically become citizens.<\/p>\n

Group leaders say if granted amnesty, the offenders would go back home and apply for visas, pay back taxes and learn English. That will never happen; it is only a ploy to gain our trust.<\/p>\n

How could you trust a person who sneaks into our country, takes services that are meant for the elderly, ill and handicapped and gets fraudulent documents to suddenly be honest?<\/p>\n

These special-interest groups should put their time and money in protesting the quality of life in Mexico so its citizens would not have to come here and split up their families. They claim that if millions of illegals would returned to Mexico, it would bring America to its knees. I say go home and teach us all a lesson.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kathleen Bukoskey, Everett<\/em><\/p>\n

Once legal, would undocumented immigrants continue current jobs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever I hear the argument that illegal immigrants should be given amnesty because they work the jobs that U.S. citizens refuse to do and that without them, the jobs would not get done, I shake my head.<\/p>\n

When you give amnesty to illegal immigrants they are no longer illegal. Because they are no longer illegal, they will not do the work they did when they were illegals. So guess what? More illegal workers would cross our borders to do the work the former illegals would no longer do.<\/p>\n

Could only simpletons like me see this?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Bob McQuade, Kent<\/em><\/p>\n

Wanted: citizenship for my husband<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a U.S. citizen married to a man who entered this country 13 years ago to support his younger siblings after his father died.<\/p>\n

My husband loves this country as well as the employers and friends he has made here. He has a diligent work ethic and a consistently positive attitude. He paid his taxes and rent, and bought groceries, cars and material goods here.<\/p>\n

We have spent more than $10,000 on credit cards to pay for him to become a legal, permanent resident. The application was denied and work permit terminated because he committed a crime five years ago.<\/p>\n

We have three children between us. He is the only father figure my daughter has in her life. He takes care of our toddler and has dinner ready when I get home from work. His firstborn son from a previous relationship is with us every weekend.<\/p>\n

My husband is a dedicated father and spouse. We need immigration reform that allows families to stay together.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kezia Willingham. Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can\u2019t afford to wait on immigrants This is a response to \u201cWe can\u2019t afford to wait on immigration reform\u201d [Opinion, April 15]. Sure, special-interest groups want open borders that benefit them. All amnesty would do is encourage more people \u2014 millions \u2014 to come here knowing if they waited long enough, they too would automatically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}