WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S.
There has been much discussion latey about Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich’s idea of what makes for a fair immigration law. He claims that someone who has been in the U.S. for about 25 years and has family here, paid taxes etc. should be considered a citizen, not an illegal immigrant. This is fair he claims, and the media is working on the rest of us to agree. Well, I don’t! For the same reason we feel people should be responsible for themselves. Gingrich made the nasty comment about the OWS protesters who should take a bath and get a job with no evidence the protestors were not clean.
If someone has been in the U.S. for 25 years, why have they never gotten Citizenship? There are classes everywhere. Many local school districts hold classes for citizenship. After 25 years one should have gotten, or at least applied for, citizenship testing. The route to citizenry in the United States is not one planned for failure. We welcome immigrants in these United States and we make the travel toward that citizenship easy.
Americans are very open to Immigration and we don’t need the brilliant Mr.Gingrich to teach us how to behave.
