The Problem is Not the Border Folks!

Mon12Jun2006

The Problem is Not the Border Folks!

10:07 H | Topics: Controversia - Immigration

While President Bush is sending National Guard troops to the U.S. Mexico border, while people send bricks to help build a border wall, and while cameras allow internet users to watch the Southern border alongside the Minutemen one big fact remains, that millions of undocumented immigrants didn't climb a wall over the border to be in the United States.

The little-acknowledged reality is that nearly half the estimated 12 million undocumented foreigners in the United States entered on bona fide U.S. visas — and simply never left. Authorities call them "overstays" who have been largely overlooked in the vitriolic debate on immigration.

It's much more dramatic to create and perpetuate the mythical image of an invasion. It serves the interest of the right wing to show people who go to extremes to enter the United States. Who wants to think about a person entering legally and staying until well past their visa expiration date?

A study by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center last month indicated that 45 percent of the undocumented migrants in the United States overstayed legal visas.

So are the borders broken or is the immigration system broken? Or is the problem a little deeper and more global in scale?

Via / Yahoo! News

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1. bea ~ Friday, Jun 16 2006 | 03:53H:

who cares! They are all breaking the law in one way or another. Even if they are here on legal visas they still go out and steal your car or sell drugs to your families. I think they should all be rounded up and made to go back the same way they got here.

2. bea ~ Friday, Jun 16 2006 | 03:54H:

3. bea ~ Friday, Jun 16 2006 | 03:54H:

4. Teresa ~ Monday, Jun 19 2006 | 22:36H:

People who believe the way that (bea) believes are just ignorent red necks and should go back to the hills and be bare foot and pregnant.....see doesnt feel so good when someone is using a generlization when its about you now does it?...not all latin people are drug dealing car stealing wet backs...for the most part they are HARD working people that only ask that they are treated at least as human as oh i dont know ..maybe the taliban...people always scream how inhuman we as a military nation treat the poor taliban...that i dont know maybe just blew up the twin towers with 6000 people in them...but lets not worry about them .....lets build a wall.............you people make me sick............just one persons opinion

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