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Monday, May 01, 2006On the Immigration Protests/WalkoutsI work in a business with a fair number of immigrants on the payroll. So far as I know, no one has failed to turn up. One person called to find out if there was a holiday or not. She was a bit upset, as she'd been planning on working. But our business only employs legal immigrants who have gone to the trouble to come here legally and have their papers in order. Watching what some of our employees have put up with in order to maintain permission to work with us, I find the way they're approaching today's protests disgusting. People who come here legally and do their best to function in America in no way deserve to be lumped in with those who show up and demand full rights as citizens that actually our legal residents do not enjoy. And those who demand that they be legalized because they're people too finish by denigrating the efforts of those immigrants making the sincerest contribution to our society by engaging and coming into it within the rules. I have written a fair amount about the horrors of the INS/DHS, their idiocy and the need for good a-- - kickings for some of the officials of those agencies. I have called for fairer, more open and more understanding processes. But the INS/DHS might do a better job if they weren't constantly confronted with millions who start by circumventing immigration procedures but then insist on working within the regulatory frameworks of the US with its protections for people's rights when caught. Maybe if the INS/DHS wasn't holding so many hearings over Mexicans here illegally, they'd do a better job processing the paperwork of those playing by the rules. When illegal immigrants win, everybody loses. Especially legal immigrants who today are being lumped in with lawbreakers for the political purposes of the Democratic party, the labor unions and Latino activists who count on legal immigrants for support while writing them off as suckers at the end of the day. Mr. Goldstein's post is cute, and it's right on target vis-à-vis the illegals. But it misses the mark with the many legal immigrants I work with, legal resident aliens who make their contribution and deserve better than to have their efforts to comply with our rules and work within our society tarnished by supposed hermanos y hermanas who want to go ahead of their brothers and sisters in line for our society's rights and priveleges. 
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