Newt Gingrich is coming to Burlingame this weekend to headline the California Republican Party spring convention.
The presidential candidate has outlined his legislative proposals should he be elected into office.
One of those is to "Control the border by January 1, 2014 and establish English as the official language of government; reform the legal visa system, and make it much easier to deport criminals and gang members while making it easier for law abiding visitors to come to the US," according to his campaign website.
Does the immigration system need to be reformed, making it easier to deport criminals while making it easier for visitors and talented professionals to come to the U.S.?
Do you think English should be the official language for America?
Tell us in the comments.
I think Newt is right. We need to make it easier for people to come to this country that have not only learned English, but are smart and ready to work. Right now, most of our schools spend their time teaching ESL.. Even in College. If a student does not know English by then, well.. enough said.
English as a national language saves money in printing and translation costs for Ballots. Tax reform is also relevent, but why did Pres. Obama give a break to corporations last week, so much for the middle class? Then he wants more takes on those making 250K or more which is really 90% small business owners with Warren Buffett? Geez Barack where is the "Change" in that? Who cares about Newt anyway...is this the best the Patch can do?
If Gary had said, "There's a unicorn in my back yard," and I had asked him for proof, would it then be reasonable for Kali to come along and challenge me to prove there isn't a unicorn in his back yard? Of course not. Kali fails at basic critical thinking, just as she fails as grammar. Given that this debate is partly about whether English should be our official language, I think any participant whose English grammar is so flawed has no room to talk.
Really? You're going there? So because of a misplaced apostrophe Kali isn't allowed to even be a participant of the debate? Restricting a forum or debate to only those that already meet the requirements for what one side is arguing for is, in this case, elitist. A legal nationalized immigrant who doesn't speak English is not allowed to debate on a national language? A redneck from the swamps of Louisiana isn't allowed to debate because they say "y'all" and that's bad English? Languages change. Grammar rules change. Contractions have only been allowed in usage guides since the 1920's. Before they were considered bad grammar. And I'll end with this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_contractions "Don't" can be used colloquially to mean "does not"; however, this is grammatically incorrect." You seem to not know all the rules of English grammar either Bren. Earlier you said, "You don't even know...". Seems somebody needs to leave the debate.
Just as long as it isn't a "wide stance". Wouldn't want another Congressman Craig...
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/EDED1HA111.DTL ...it's hard to imagine that even deporting every single illegal alien and locking down our borders good and hard would ameliorate the problem. I also worry about the law of unintended consequences. Alabama's agribusiness has been greatly disrupted by their hardcore anti-immigrant legislation, for example.
Phyllis, that's exactly the excuse I use when my owners catch me humping their houseguest's leg!
For Gingrich to be claiming we need to make it easier to deport criminals is rubbish: that's what we're already doing, except under S-COMM we're also deporting hard-working members of the community who have no criminal records but are picked up by law enforcement for minor, non-violent citations, including broken taillights and selling food without a permit. We need immigration reform, alright, but not in the way Gingrich would have you think.
America's leadership in space has always been one of our crowning achievements, and a sing of our greatness. We need to get that back.
Therefore, it behooves us to leave a backup copy of human life on some remote storage medium. That's Mars, and if we want to colonize Mars, most experts agree that a permanent moon base will be an important stepping stone towards that goal.
Bren, do you even understand the word "Illegal"? Illegal, or unlawful, is used to describe something that is prohibited or not authorized by law. So basically you are saying our country should not be governed by laws. So how many illegal aliens ( they are not immigrants ) do you have working for you, Bren?
And yes the california economy would be dead in the water without our friendly and capable neighbors to the south.
Robert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in landscape architecture, with and emphasis in urban and regional planning from Texas A&M University. So - you cite some Texan with a degree in landscape architecture. Ummm. that wont do.
The fact is that the California Economy would collapse without our friendly and capable neighbors from the south. see also http://www.caimmigrant.org/ see also http://www.ppic.org/main/policyarea.asp?i=8