To Have Compassion

One of the ideas Pres. Bush brought was the phrase compassionate conservatism. Can we as a people look at immigration from a compassionate viewpoint. Don't get me wrong with over 241,000 illegals coming into Tuscon last year, that were caught, and it is estimated over 1,000,000 came across the border. 1.3 million pounds of Mariana taken and drugs over taking the city something desperate needed to be done. But we must bear some of the responsibility ourselves for letting this continue the last 20 or more years. We as Americans have even hired some of these people knowing they were illegal. We are part of the problem ourselves and the government hasn't done there part in deporting. Because of the length of time this has continued we have illegals who have homes, businesses, American children, and American grandchildren. It would destroy a certain amount of our economy if we were to deport these people who have American children and American grandchildren for who would support the children left behind. And are you going to deport Americans to Mexico so they can be with their families. And what would happen to their businesses? Here in Chicago we have a large Hispanic business section that sometimes creates as much income as downtown Chicago. I don't know the exact numbers but Hispanic friends of mine have told me figures that are astounding and yet this is rarely displayed in economic papers. These people generate a lot of business $$ to the Chicago economy. I jokingly call this area Little Mexico. I don't know the solution to these problems. Someone a lot smarter than me. But there should be some compassion on this situation. Let us show some mercy and care about a hard working people who we could pattern our families after. I have learned much from these people, one is family unity, faith in God and hard work, work quite frankly some of us don't want to do. We need to stop the problem, secure the borders, and apply the law but let's do it with compassion. Marna