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When B.C. Forbes sailed for America from Scotland in 1904, he was following a course well worn by generations of Scots.
I know how the founder of Forbes magazine must have felt. The Murdochs originally hail from the same part of Scotland. Today, we are part of the most recent wave of immigrants attracted by the bright beacon of American liberty.
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Legal immigration example; Believe port of entry was Ellis Island NY.
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The evidence of the contributions these immigrants make to our society is all around us--especially in the critical area of education. Adam Smith (another Scotsman) knew that without a decent system of education, a modern capitalist society was committing suicide. Well, our modern public school systems simply are not producing the talent the American economy needs to compete in the future. And it often seems that it is our immigrants who are holding the whole thing up.
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How does a broken education system justify illegal immigration?
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This correlates with other findings that more than half of engineers--and 45% of math and computer scientists--with Ph.D.s now working in the U.S. are foreign born.
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Legal Immigration example.
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Start with Eddie Chin, an ethnic Chinese Marine who was born a week after his family fled Burma. You've all seen Cpl. Chin. Because when Baghdad fell, he was the Marine we all watched shimmy up the statue of Saddam Hussein to attach the cable that would pull it down.
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I would bet he came here as a refugee, which is legal.
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Or Lance Cpl. Ahmad Ibrahim. His family came to the U.S. from Syria when the first Gulf War broke out. Now Cpl. Ibrahim hopes to be deployed to Iraq--also as a Marine--to put his Arabic language skills in the service of Corps and Country.
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Special Visa for skills not available in the USA. That is legal. I would guess it was an L-1
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Or what about Cpl. José Gutierrez, who was raised in Guatemala and came to America as a boy--illegally! Cpl. Gutierrez was one of the first Marines killed in action in Iraq. As his family told reporters, this young immigrant enlisted with the Marine Corps because he wanted to "give back" to America.
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Not to detract from the sacrifice, but I have no idea how he legally obtained a Green Card for enlistment.
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So the next time you hear people whinging about what a "drain" on America our immigrants are, it might be worth asking if they consider these Marines a drain.
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The drain is illegal immigration. With one exception, this article uses legal immigration to substantiate illegals.
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• It would help those who want nothing more than to work legally move out of the shadows.
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Reward those that enter illegally and deport those who cannot transfer a visa. Visa's require a sponsor. Those that wish to hire illegal immigrants do so to remove the overhead of medical coverage and taxes. They have no desire to sponsor legal immigrants, it's too expensive.
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Given the tremendous pressures on President Bush and the considerable opposition from within his own ranks, the politically expedient thing for him to do would be to drop it. But he hasn't, and I for one am encouraged by his refusal to give in.
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I vehemently oppose this proposal.