Comments on: Latino Pundit Grades Obama.

By: LauDee

LauDee — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:32:43 +0000

Handicapper, you say illegal aliens should be deported because all they did and continue doing is break the law. In fact, most of them come not because they want to break the law but because back home they don’t have anything. They leave home, Handicapper, home and family. You don’t understand the nostalgia they feel and I wish you did. Years without visiting the home they grew up in and seeing their mother and siblings is not easy. The thing is, they’re willing to give that up because they need the basic necessities that they can’t get at home. It’s not a decision made just out of spite or because they wish to break another country’s laws.

Perhaps if immigration laws were reformed and not so outdated, they wouldn’t be breaking them. That is why we want and immigration reform.

By: DanL

DanL — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:22:13 +0000

President Obama has done something that the media has roundly ignored: reformed the Executive Branch. Gone are all the blatantly political patronage appointments of unqualified people of the Bush era who were often appointed to deliberately block the mission of their executive agencies.

In their place, President Obama has appointed qualified individuals who are actually doing their jobs properly. For the first time since the Housing & Community Development Act of 1974 went into effect, the Obama Administration is actually requiring that Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) be spent properly and that recipient jurisdiction actually “affirmatively further fair housing” which is a very clear condition for accepting CDBG money. It’s like that in other federal executive departments as well. We finally have a law abiding administration in Washington that is turning the executive branch into a functional branch of government again. And this really drives the Republicans crazy because they did all they could to destroy government when they had the reigns of power.

By: Handicapper

Handicapper — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:15:39 +0000

Xavier said “I think the point is if illegal aliens are given a path to legalization, they will pay taxes.”

How do you support the notion that breaking our Law is justified? Anyone in this Nation illegally is not entitled to services and should be arrested and deported!

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:06 +0000

I think the point is if illegal aliens are given a path to legalization, they will pay taxes. And as it is many of them do so already without access to all the benefits. I’m not promoting breaking the law but rather changing the law to better address our reality and the needs of both our economy and people willing to come and contribute to America.

By: Sndp

Sndp — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:15 +0000

Keeping aside your prejudices, why should the illegal undocumented workers who do not pay taxes benefit at all from the government? I am a foreign worker too, and I will leave the US within a few months when my work permit expires. I do not plan to overstay, my wife and I pay a whopping 40% of our gross salary on taxes (easy to guess what state we live in) and we pay social security taxes too. Once we leave this country, all the SS taxes we paid, is for nothing. We are unhappy about that but we don’t complain because it makes sense to collect SS taxes from every one (if they finally decide to reside in the US for good). Also, the government here provides decent protection, good infrastructure and other amenities. So, how is it ‘FAIR’ for illegal immigrants to get ‘MOST’ of the benefits and not pay for it? You think I wouldn’t mind not paying taxes?