MSNBC Debate ... Immigrants

[TheMiddleRoad]

Wow, Lieberman is kissing immigrant ass.

Well no shit, if your not a Native American your a descendant of an immigrant. But likely your a descendant of a LEGAL immigrant. Your ancestors also likely came over at a time when America only existed east of the Mississippi.

Seriously, do you think it's right for candidates to kiss immigrant ass for the sake of kissing immigrant ass.

BTW, Dean gave a convoluted explanation on immigrant-soldiers. Like Kerry I believe that a foreign combat deployment with honorable conduct should warrant automatic citizenship for them, their spouse and their children.

When it comes to sorting out which illegals stay and which go, service to the Military is an excellent way to "EARN" citizenship. Beyond this, I look at the poor huddled masses fleeing as refugees and see opportunities to ARM them, and send them back to their nations under a US banner to free their nations.

Perhaps it's time to create a US FOREIGN LEGION!!!!!! Train refugees and send them home to liberate their nations. After the conflict, they can choose to become US citizens or to return to their nation and help heal it and establish democracy.

BTW, Lieberman is a shitty candidate. He doesn't understand the depth of the immigration issue.

What does everyone else think??????

[KTM]

1. I think Dean was trying to say

Something important, but couldn't get the words off the tip of his tongue. What he was trying to say was that yes, we should grant citizenship to immigrants who fight to defend the USA, BUT that we need to be careful in the way we present this to avoid an influx of immigrants into the military seeking a way to gain citizenship at the risk of being misused. The words he was wracking his brain for were "Cannon Fodder.' As in, "yes we should grant citizenship to those who fight to defend our country, but we must also protect them, and be sure we dont inadvertently allow a power-mad war-mongering administration like we currently have to misuse such a policy to use the immigrants as cannon-fodder in a war developed on lies."

[Moderator]

2. Locking.

This discussion is more suited for General Discussion or GD2004. I'd move this to one of the GD forums, but I suspect it would probably be locked as a duplicate thread. You may wish to make your point in the debate thread in GD2004.

Thank you.
DU Moderator