College class on diversity, oh how enlightening. Diversity is good but creating diversity through violating the law is not. The Constitution is 'the law of the land' The INS and surprisingly the Homeland Security Dept (DHS) is charged with carrying out the tenets of law in regards to immigration and naturalization. The USCIS ,a part of DHS, is tasked with conducting the tasks required for of citizenship and immigration. Now the USCIS is an entity which is funded as a self funding bureau and receives no direct budget funding from the Congress. Congress therefore, having the power of the purse, is not able to control the bureau by cutting funding. It can only have an effect by changing law and doing that is sure to garner a veto by the President. Should this Executive Order been issued, I think not; for the system should have been funded to work as it is intended to. Hire sufficient personnel and acquire systems to enable the processing of all illegals for citizenship through the front door not jumping ahead of others.I am creating this thread as a final project for a college class on diversity. I chose this immigration forum because it sparked the most interest in me. I know there is a lot of controversy right now surrounding the Presidents new program to protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and I was wondering about everyone's opinion. Please be respectful in this discussion as it is for a class project.
I think if the illegal immigrants can pass a criminal background check and are willing to work and pay taxes like everyone else then they should be allowed to stay.
We have a legal immigration system that doesn't even equate to diversity as most of them are from Mexico and one ethnic group. Illegal aliens should never be able to gain citizenship in our country.