Differing Perspectives #2

Immigration

http://www.newburyportnews.com/opinion/x1095934915/Column-Why-the-hesitation-in-dealing-with-the-illegal-immigration-problem

Columnist Barbara Anderson does not support immigration, specifically illegal immigration and expresses frustration over the lack of political action taken to control illegal immigration. She supports ideas such as a fingerprint-sharing system that could identify illegal immigrants when first arrested, and then deporting them. Since it would be too expensive and illogical to deport all illegal immigrants in the U.S., Anderson suggests to first deport all illegal immigrants that have committed crimes and misdemeanors and then removing government subsidies for illegal non-citizens. She believes this to be a start to a solution.

Differing Perspectives #1

Immigration

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21friedman.html

Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman for the New York Times supports immigration into the United States, crediting immigrants for keeping the U.S. in competition with other countries like China. He describes the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, a national contest that honors the top math and science high school students in America and their scientific solutions, and points out that most of them were Asian or Indian.  Friedman goes on to say that he believes the U.S. to be in good hands as long as “we don’t shut our doors”. However he clarifies that although he is pro-immigration and believes in having a constant flow of immigrants, he stressed that these immigrants should be legal immigrants.