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Undocumented And Illegal Immigrants Should Have A Roadmap to U. S. Citizenship
IN A DEEPER SENSE PROBLEM OF UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS IS NOT THEIRS, BUT AMERICA'S.
Just a simple analogy: Tobacco Companies paid some addicted victims hefty fines. If that is okay, then the undocumented aliens should be paid, that is, get a chance to legally work in the United States.

Why would we now say that they broke the law? Why the laws were not implemented for so many years? If the undocumented alien issue is not solved, only measures that seem to take effect are either gradual or mass deportation. Expelling them will be like taking their lives, as lung cancer takes a smoker's. Should gradual and mass deportation of undocumented aliens happen, would not it remain as a stigma in our Nation's history?

Now that the problem is getting out of hand, we want to implement the law by punishing/expelling them. But won't that be like inflicting lung cancers to millions of those who have built their entire career here in the United States notwithstanding heavy sweats and cheap wages?

When they have been coming for years and not baulked, rather encouraged so that we could use their labor at a cheaper rate with an implied assurance from track records that these undocumented aliens do not call out sick unless they have to; would it be moral to expel them citing that they broke the law? Were not they allured into this situation, as the laws were not implemented?

THE LAWS WERE NOT IMPLEMENTED, AS WE ARE, AS A NATION, A COMPASSIONATE ONE. NOW, IF WE EXPEL THEM, THEN HISTORY WOULD JUDGE US AS A NATION OF EXPLOITERS AND AS A NATION OF ALLURERS (LIKE THE WITCH IN HANSEL AND GRETEL STORY. THAT IS WHY IN A DEEPER SENSE PROBLEM OF UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS IS NOT THEIRS, BUT AMERICA'S. I think we, as a nation, should consider this as our moral responsibility to solve this issue as humanly as possible. Therefore, undocumented and illegal immigrants should have a roadmap to U. S. Citizenship.

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