Roy Quinn

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  Roy commented on the article | over 3 years ago

  Activists Still Fasting for Immigrant Rights in L.A.

  Illegal immigration is a subject that evokes a large span of emotional responses.
  
  No child or elderly person in need of medical care should be denied medical care regardless of citizenship status.  To do otherwise is inhumane and we are not an inhumane society.
  
  It angers me that our elected officials have turned a blind eye to this growing problem for 30 years or more and now our options are limited simply by the sheer number of illegal immigrants residing in the US. 
  
  As I see it there are too many illegal immigrants to make a massive roundup fiscally possible.  It would simply cost too much for us to do, let alone finding the transportation assets to move millions to the border, house them, feed them while herding them through the border.  It just isn't feasible.  I am angered that my country is forced to accept lawbreaking people and find a way to make these lawbreaking people citizens of my country simply because my elected officials did not do anything about securing the borders of my country 30 years ago.
  
  I have no problem accepting visa applications by the thousands to satisfy the needed labor to harvest crops wherever. 
  
  That's enough ranting about past failures of our elected officials.  The question now is how do we resolve the issue of illegal immigration?  Frankly, I don't see much benefit in assessing a monetary penalty as one of the steps to citizenship unless it was a nominal amount; $50, $100 or so.  More than that and it could have the reverse effect.  I would much rather see those millions of illegal immigrants paying into social security, medicare and income tax.  But, the border should be secured.