Obama is right to try to bring more educated english speaking people to America

 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:

1. 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.
2. 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 increase legal immigration into America.
3. "We need to make America more attractive for legal immigrants -- for citizens -- and less attractive for illegal immigrants. I want to see more immigration in our country, but more legal immigration and less illegal immigration." ~ Governor Romney, AP, June 23, 2006

Reasons to disagree:

1. Business people don't want to pay American scientist and engineers very much money and so they want to bring in foreign scientist and engineers. Instead we should turn the tables, and bring in people with MBAs from India, so that American businessmen don't make as much money. Some people with MBAs walk around talking about motivation, and team building, as if it wasn’t just all stupid crap that they make up to make themselves feel important. We should bring in low wage business people to run our companies, and not bring in low wage scientist and engineers.
   

Obama was wrong to support giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants

Interest of those who agree (that Obama is wrong):

1. Promoting the Republican Party by attacking a democrat.
   
2. Racism (critisizing a minority because he is a minority)

Interest of those who disagree (that Obama is wrong):

1. Promoting the Democratic Party by defending a democrat.
   
2. Liberal guilt (defending a minority because he is a minority)

Obama was wrong to vote YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security

Reasons to agree:

1. 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

Obama was wrong to vote NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government

Reasons to agree:

1. When the Germans, Dutch, Italian, immigrants came to America, they all learned English, so that they could fully participate in a new country.
2. E pluribus unum, Latin for "Out of Many, One"
   

Background

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm

Obama is wrong on immigration

Reasons to agree:

1. We must secure our borders first, and then reform immigration policy.


2. Obama wants to reward people for breaking the law.


3. 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".


4. We can't have national security without border security.

Reasons to disagree:

1. Obama is right to try to bring more educated english speaking people to America.


2. We need illegal immigrants.

Interest of those who agree (that Obama is wrong):

1. The Rule of Law


2. Self interest: promoting their own race (if their race is different from the immigrant)

Interest of those who disagree (that Obama is wrong):

1. Self interest: promoting their own race (if their race is the same as the immigrant)
   


2. Family. Trying to re-unite with their family from South America

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