Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

  Background: Obama said in an interview with IANS he would support "comprehensive immigration reform ", including the H-1B visa program "to attract some of the world most talented people to America". "We know that we cannot and should not put up walls around our economy." [ 147 ] Reasons to agree: America is like a baseball team. If we are going to beat other countries, we have to recruit the best players. We need to make America attractive to smart people. Smart people should be attracted by our freedom, rule of law, free press, and fair system. Immigration has been an important part of our nation's success. The current system, however, puts up a concrete wall to the best and brightest, yet those without skill or education are able to walk across the border. We must reform the current immigration laws so we can secure our borders, implement a mandatory biometrically enabled, tamper proof documentation and employment verification system, and incre...

Interest  of those who agree (that Obama is wrong): Promoting the Republican Party by attacking a democrat. Racism (critisizing a minority because he is a minority) Interest  of those who disagree (that Obama is wrong): Promoting the Democratic Party by defending a democrat. Liberal guilt (defending a minority because he is a minority)

Reasons  to agree: It is nice to let illegal aliens participate in social security, but you have to be smart, and fair also. Why don't we give social security to South Americans, Europeans, or Chinese? Because they are not US citizens. Just because someone breaks into our country illegally, and hangs out here long enough to make friends, doesn't mean that  we should give them social security. It might be nice (and democrats want SOOOO much for everyone to think that they are nice) but it is stupid to give non citizens benefits of citizenship, unless you are willing to say there is no such things as borders, no such thing as laws, no such thing as rules, and the government is just going to give everything to anybody who wants anything. http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm

Reasons  to agree: When the Germans, Dutch, Italian, immigrants came to America, they all learned English, so that they could fully participate in a new country. E pluribus unum , Latin for "Out of Many, One" Background http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm

Reasons to agree: We must secure our borders first, and then reform immigration policy. Obama wants to reward people for breaking the law. Obama is wrong to always use strawman arguments . It is a straw man argument to say that "we can't round-up all the illegal alians" . We can't have national security without border security. Reasons to disagree: Obama is right to try to bring more educated english speaking people to America . We need illegal immigrants. Interest  of those who agree (that Obama is wrong): The Rule of Law Self interest: promoting their own race (if their race is different from the immigrant) Interest  of those who disagree (that Obama is wrong): Self interest: promoting their own race (if their race is the same as the immigrant) Family. Trying to re-unite with their family from South America Images that agree: