A way forward for immigration reform

mjordankng Um how is it you are illegal and paying taxes. where is your social security number ? and how do you open a buisness and employ people ? am I missing something. I am living in Ireland because thy accept me here before America will accept my Irish b/f. so he wont come to America and live there illegally but if amnesty is granted all those who yearn to come to America will not be allowed and put on the back burner, this system is fecked up. I feel if you are born in America and your parents are from another country then thats the country you belong to . this is so stupid . people are coming from all the other countries to have their kids in America so they can be Americans. forget that. something needs to change.

Great article -- too bad our politicians don't have the guts to confront this issue face-on.

Then stop posing as an illegal & you won't be called one, idiot.

My poor Maloney,who wrote: " You also speak pretty good english for an illegal marthaanna." I never said I was illegal! Wow, that's a new one for me! I am a third generation Irish American. Oh, brother!

My GGrandparents came here from Ireland many, many years ago seeking a better life then the one they had back home. They so loved this country and the freedoms it afforded them that they became citizens. This I know because I the have copies of their naturalization papers. If you want to live here and be a responsible citizen, it has to be done the right way or we DO NOT want you here. If you won't do it the right way, go back where you came from and stay there. Your kind is not what made this country great.

Your just another damn illegal that thinks the world owes you a living mjordan. You also speak pretty good english for an illegal marthaanna. It's probably a lot closer to 25 to 30 million. Many Americans have been raising hell for over 50 years. corrupt govt. is what has stopped deportation & securing the borders. The issue is black & white, nothing else. If you don't belong here you need to go. Thank obama for one thing, he has wakened the masses & many wrongs will be righted. Many people will be in jail who have raped their country for years. Many illegals will be looking to get out of America before they are caught as it won't be as pleasant in the future. All the things obama & the socialists had planned for the true Americans will instead be suffered by all the ones who have abused the system. You should git while the gittens good.

well I am illegal immigrant because of a broken immigration system and because I was mugged by an american citizen 5 days before my plane was taking off back to my country. 10 years later I have my own business and paid my taxes every year and I employ 32 people. I totally agree with not being able to just jump the border, in any other country you would get shot on the spot on the premisses of national security. But things are not just black and white like most of the ignorants here are trying to put it. No one cared about immigration reform for 50 years as long the system worked in their favor and now everybody cries to enforce the laws and deport 13 million people? Get real What stopped the government to enforce the laws for 50 years? Maybe if you started crying 20 or 30 years ago then certain people would not have been able to come to America before 9/11 Narrow minded hypocrites !!! you have no clue about what happens beyond you home's door but you're very eager to judge the rest of the world right away!

Well said Maloney, I am tired of being taxed into servitude, so that others can feel good that they are being compassionate with my money. If you want to help the rest of the world, do it with your own money.

Who the hell are you marthaanna to tell me how my tax money should be spent. Who the hell are you to break the law by aiding illegals. Who the hell are you to be a part of taking food & medical care away from Americans in need. You need to shut up about thinking you have a right to tell someone to shut up! You need to find a country where your actions are legal, it's not America, thank God.

By the way, most of the immigrant Irish who are here undocumented don't come from the kind of oppression and poverty and lack of health care that the Ecuadorians I know come from. The Irish illegals who DID need to come to get basic services are probably far and few between. Don't compare them to the true poor of the world.

Maloney, If you were in their shoes you'd be talking a different line. You have no heart. Shut up about the "breaking the laws" B.S. Martin Luther King and Gandhi both broke the law, Dorothy Day broke the law, etc. These people, the Ecuadorians I know, Thank God that they came here. Thank God. Now the kids can hear and one is not totally blind. Who the hell are you to criticize them for saving their kids from a lifetime of impairment? You really need to get a life.

Just to clarify: Our Godchild was born here to undocumented parents and most of her siblings here came here as undocumented immigrants. I have to say, once again, that I deeply support the Dream Act and feel that all of these wonderful young folks deserve to become Americans. They have been here for many years and done nothing wrong.

nobody cares what you resent marthaanne. Send the illegals back to where they belong & stop breaking the laws. For the politicians who refuse to back the laws of the land, your time is about to come to a crashing halt.

I also, knowing the incredible poverty and suffering of this family prior to coming here illegally, think it is WONDERFUL that they came here and slipped over the border. Good for them. They were able to get medical care for the son who was going blind in his remaining seeing eye, for the 2 children who are hearing impaired, and the children didn't have to work in bananna fields standing in 6 inches of water and not going to school. I resent those who resent the illegal immigrants. Most of you are selfish and small minded blankety blanks. You would be THE FIRST ONES to cross over the border illegally if your kids had to suffer what I personally know these Ecuadorians, from the countryside, have suffered, so SHUT UP you who complain about the illegal immigrants and DO SOMETHING TO HELP THE POOR.

Now, wait a minute. I am Irish-American and it just so happens that my husband and I are padrinos (Godparents) to a little Ecuadorian-American girl whose parents are here totally undocumented and who has 3 siblings here who are also undocumented and who came here, after almost 10 years of not seeing their parents, were smuggled here, in other works, just before the age of 15, each of them, one by one. I know the extended family here and most of the adults are undocumented. We have tried to help, going to immigration lawyers, several of them. It is ridiculous for you to say, or to believe, that this young woman did not know that she was the child of undocumented parents or that she was undocumented. THIS IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE. I fully support the Dream Act, fully support a path to ciitzenship for both the parents and the young woman, but let's start with some truth telling first!! The young woman, as you well know, has Ecuadorian immigrant friends and/or relatives and ALL THEY EVER DO IN THESE CIRCLES IS TALK ABOUT HOW TO BECOME LEGAL! I know. I have been close to these people for 10 years now. So, let's cut out the crap. They know, she knew, she was undocumented when she applied to college. I just like accuracy, that's all.