Immigrants: open a path to their full inclusion in the life of this country

the nyt chronicles our country's further descent into ignominy over the immigrant issue and itemizes the damage...

• Border enforcement
• Federal raids
• Local crackdowns
• Gutted due process
• The web of suspicion
• The bureaucratic trap
• The rise of hate

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Enforcement of laws cannot be ignored. Punish immigrants who enter illegally, make them pay back taxes and fines, restrict their ability to get work through deceit and false identities. But open a path to their full inclusion in the life of this country.

The alternative — the path of immigrant exploitation, of harassment without hope — will only repeat the ways the country has shamed itself at countless points in its history.

we must never, ever forget... these people ARE US... they only want what we all want - to live in reasonable comfort, to lead productive lives, to enjoy a few creature comforts, to find love, to raise families, and to grow old with dignity... those are the very same drives that caused the united states to come into existence in the first place... immigrants ARE our history...

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