Are you happy with the direction New Status is going?
Yes, I'm very happy.
5%
I'm comfortable with it.
5%
I have some worries and doubts.
18%
I am very unhappy with it, anxious for the future of the island and people.
23%
Higher Supervision, New Referendum, All 'New Status' Options openly debated please!
50%
Total votes: 22
agree 100%
Anonymous (not verified) | Wed, 2008-10-01 20:54
I don't know who you are Rackham, but I couldn't posssibly agree more with your take on the situation. The situation for illegals SUCKS, especially the kids as they are victims and didn't choose to be here as Flipper indicated, but superceding that is the fact that we also have LOCAL victims of their parent's choices. But there is a difference, and i think Flipper needs to understand this: The kids are paying for their parents' mistakes, but at the end of the day, what their parents did was illegal. but OUR kids, OUR taxpayers are also paying for their mistakes and we did NOTHING illegal. I;m sorry, but the right to education for 100 % of children (as indicated by the UN) is correct, so let them do that in their country...or do it here LEGALLY. end of story. It's not like their aren't ways to do it legally, lots of people do.
Does anyone have statistics on the number of illegal dropouts? or of illegals that go away and then come back here LEGALLY to work and give back to the society that they milked? I'll bet you the number of the former is HIGH and the latter is low. but all of this is still a moot point: being here illegaly should not give your children the right to education on the host country's expense.
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