I think you forget that unless you are native american, your family were once immigrants too. People came here with the same dream: to have a safe, stable, and free life. If you "throw out" anyone with a green card or an illegal license, it is a slap in the face to all that America symbolizes. Think about how your family must have felt when they came here- and how they would feel if they were forced to leave the place they saved and prayed for.

Resident aliens have rights too, you know!

P.S. My mother's a British citizen, she's lived here more than 20 years, and I must say I'd be more than a little ****ed if she were kicked out now for no good reason. Aside from being a violation of immigrants' rights, deporting them would affect tons of citizens as well as noncitizens in countless unnecessary ways... but you feel that separating families, closing businesses, etc. due to a largely imaginary threat is the way to go? Not to mention that the people responsible for all the anthrax in the mail may very well be an opportunistic American terrorist group; diverting all our attention to deporting innocent immigrants would only give such a group an easier time causing trouble.

I guess that I agree with you for the most part. I think that it would just be another way for the government to track us. It is bad enough that we have to give our SSN in order to obtain a driver's license. I am not so concerned about "helpless immigrants" being deported though. As far as I'm concerned, we should throw out everyone with a green card and every illegal and then start all over with our background checks and security measures.
Thanks- Charles

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