Matt Bors for April 16, 2013
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Immigrant 1: Is this the path to the middle class? Immigrant 2: Yeah, it's even longer. The Path to Citizenship. Hope you make the cut-off date! Dec 31, 2011. Maintain your substandard lousy job. Navigate the maze of punitive forms. Endure the babbling racist. Oh, and wait a decade. Now cough up those fees. Yay, you're a citizen!
ConserveGov about 11 years ago
Or you could just stay in your own country.
Just a thought.
chazandru about 11 years ago
Good cartoon and well done. When amnesty first occurred under Reagan, it was supposed to be followed with laws that would make it impossible for illegals to find work i the USA. Congress watered those laws down in favor agriculture and other businesses hiring low income workers.I support another amnesty program like the one done under Mr. Reagan, especially for those immigrants who have been working the USA as good citizens and neighbors and who have raised children here. However…If we do not put penalties on those who hire the illegals to work in their factories and fields, the result will be the same and we’ll be doing this dance again in two decades.The bigger threat to US jobs are people being brought to the USA on skilled worker visas who then return to their home nation to teach people at the US overseas factory to do the same work at much lower prices. I can’t remember the name of the program, but some of our other commentators were familiar with it as well.Respectfully,C.
zoidknight about 11 years ago
That they are as dumb as the rest of those who voted for him.
zoidknight about 11 years ago
Nice try. The wild horses here are too healthy to be descended from the few the Spanish brought over.
Chillbilly about 11 years ago
Native Americans also came from somewhere else in prehistoric times.
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
“The original horses died out, before the Indians came here. All of the horses here were reintroduced.”Wow, you actually said something true.
HabaneroBuck about 11 years ago
Honestly, what’s wrong with staying in your own country? Why does everyone on the left automatically attack that notion? When the British came over to North America, they did not find a functioning “country” whose rules they had to follow. They found loose networks of tribes here and there. Not the same as smuggling illegally into the USA.
ConserveGov about 11 years ago
FYI
I didn’t say that staying in your own country was their ONLY option, but if you find our process too difficult then why bother?
As mentioned by others, it is not a right for every person in the world to become a US citizen(or of any country) so if I don’t like a country’s rules for citizenship, I wouldn’t want to live there. There is nothing racist or discriminatory about this.
Pretty simple logic actually.
ConserveGov about 11 years ago
Btw Not everybody here illegally is “just working hard to support their family”
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_23028042/peeping-tom-stuck-cellphone-up-womans-skirt-panorama?source=most_viewed
hippogriff about 11 years ago
TheTrustedMechanic: Something like that happened in a nearby town built by a railroad important to my mother’s side of the family. The historic line was bought out by a rival and the yards shut down. The town established one of those tax abatement giveaways and several multinational corporations moved in tax-free. When the abatement expired, they all moved out, some with no more warning than a notice on the door when loyal employees showed up for work. A decade of lost taxes and now they have as bad unemployment figures as before. But the corporations found another sucker town to steal from for another ten years.