Comments on: Eager for a voice… http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/01/30/eager-for-a-voice/ Serving California State University, Fresno since 1922. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:24:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Get in Line http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/01/30/eager-for-a-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-26392 Get in Line Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:56:32 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/01/30/eager-for-a-voice/#comment-26392 everyone in the world (and their mother) wants to become a US citizen----take a number, get in line, and wait behind those who are professionally viable or who came here lawfully. This notion that those not born on US soil who are children of migrant should be 'owed' citizenship is an outrage. The US isn't exactly hurting for Latinos eager to become US citizens----we're swarmed here in California. Moreno says there is an 'anti-immigrant' sentiment? Look around----the US accepts more immigrants than ANY country on the globe------that is purely factual. The other aspect that bothers me is the goal of making full families and non-immediate families eligible for citizenship (with attempted reform) is one of concern. Where are the limits? How many people can a nation like the US accept? "Oh, your brother was a migrant farm worker? Please, bring your whole clan!" everyone in the world (and their mother) wants to become a US citizen—-take a number, get in line, and wait behind those who are professionally viable or who came here lawfully. This notion that those not born on US soil who are children of migrant should be ‘owed’ citizenship is an outrage.

The US isn’t exactly hurting for Latinos eager to become US citizens—-we’re swarmed here in California.

Moreno says there is an ‘anti-immigrant’ sentiment? Look around—-the US accepts more immigrants than ANY country on the globe——that is purely factual.

The other aspect that bothers me is the goal of making full families and non-immediate families eligible for citizenship (with attempted reform) is one of concern. Where are the limits? How many people can a nation like the US accept? “Oh, your brother was a migrant farm worker? Please, bring your whole clan!”

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