Yes it's time. Time to throw out allll the illegals. Including the illegal drunkard Obamas.

How about a end to bigotry and ignorance too?

Get rid of all of the illegals, not bigotry just right is right, just try to move into any other country without following their laws and you will be jailed and tossed out.
That is the way it is 30 to 100 million illegal aliens are raping our system.
We can't afford it.

No !!!
Let Federal Govt deal with that issue, Amherst Citizens have their own more pressing issues.

Its time the Town of Amherst disclose its inner workings and business relationships to the citizens. How about a full accounting for the past 5 years ??
A gentleman had mentioned earlier about a $2M bridge bond that was passed a year or so ago. No response on that one. True or Not ???

Let's address own own issues and "politics".

It is time for a day in jail for every worker day that a corrupt business uses an illegal in order to cheat his fellow legal Americans out of a market wage. We need to E-Verify all workers and begin the jail time for the bosses. These workers should receive no state or federal benefits and yes, they will go home. We also need to educate our legal children to fill all of the employment needs in this country. It is an embarrassment that we have foreign doctors in NH. If they are here because our children cannot earn an MD degree, that is a huge indictment of our school system. If they are here simply to save the Elliot Hospital a few bucks, we are then giving a prime job to a foreignor and thus depriving a legal citizen of the opportunity to work as a doctor in Manchester, for example. If such a legal citizen still wants to work, he or she must then undercut the pay of the imported worker. For those of you who disagree with me, would you want your employer to import a worker to replace you or to outsource your job so that some man or woman in India can do it while you stand in line for unemployment? Our immigration policy should be one of temporary asylum for some and an allowance for foreign adoption of at risk children.

Dennis, if there was ever a group of people that should endure competition it would be the medical profession. Love Dr.'s but some of there fees should be a little adjusted.

Most that live in India are quite angry that the best doctors have left their country and came here. Maybe some of our C and D students can relocate to India. The next export should be politicians.

Excuse to give illegals jobs that should go to American citizens. When are the democrats gonna wake up on the jobs issue.

Can''t wait to hear a liberal tell us how they want their employer to outsource their job in the name of global competition or to import a foreign worker who will do their job cheaper. The Indian government needs to keep its doctors in India and we need to educate our children to fill those jobs. I personally know of the pain of paying for a college degree to to work in a shortage area, and then learning that hospitals are importing foreign workers for the same position. In that situation, this individual was able to work--but on the periphery. Take the foreign workers out of the picture and this individual would be working in Manchester at a higher rate of pay instead of an hour away in the boondocks. Poor immigrants who use the hospitals for "free" also reduce the amount of funding available for wages for workers. We need to close the borders to all but a few, and do it now.

Yes it is time for immigration reform, but without Obama's input. Let Congress make the changes needed but with the voice of the people who are legal citizens.

Bill Goldthwaite

I don't think the previous commenters have read the suggested bill. The only people getting to front of the line are kids who were taken here by their parents and farm workers. Good luck finding an avg American citizen who will pick veggies all day for $20. When you thank Jesus for the food on your plate somewhere in the south a migrant worker is saying "de nada". The reality is that a majority of entitlement money welfare included goes to white people. I'm a 5th generation American and I welcome with open arms anyone who wants to continue the tradition of hard work my ancestors passed on when they came from Europe. The proposed changes offer nothing but fines and obstacles to the small percentage of welfare seekers among the 11 million.

You sound just like the people railing against the Irish in the last Century, just a bunch of crap.

Dear Bill:

So, you are in favor of outsourcing your job or having an immigrant do it for less? By the way, who are you to set the wage and then complain that no American will do it? Let the corrupt farmers bid up the wage until they get legal workers. I am willing to move tomorrow for a one year contract picking fruit at 50 per hour under OSHA work conditions. There is no shortage of labor in this country, only a shortage of business owners with integrity and a lack of workers who understand how people like you would like to screw them over. Our economy is a wreck, and hard working aliens will not fix that. We need to educate our own kids to do the jobs here and we need to send home the non-legals.

Higher food prices won't kill the economy any more than high prices for anything else has ever killed the economy. Get rid of the illegal workers; pay farm workers a fair wage and let the chips fall where they may. Maybe then instead of three cars, 2 boats, a half dozen TVs, a couple of ATVs, a couple of jet skis, $250 cable bills, $150 cell phone bills and eating out 5 days a week, people might come back to reality.

Bill:

As I understand it, I must now work harder for less money so that businesses can import workers from abroad. I suggest that you ask your boss to spend some time finding a man from India to do your job. India possesses a good number of educated people who would gladly do your job for less.

As far as the "right" farm wage, why not just eliminate the illegals from the market through E-Verify and see how high the wages have to rise!!!

Immigration Reform contains the elimination of per-country limit to give more green card to Indian and Chinese work force. The theory behind this is that bright people like Indian or Chinese will create more start-up/job.

This is also crazy idea. I am a software engineer in silicon valley, and IT companies are already full of Indian and Chinese. The diversity is already dead. The software engineers from other foreign country are already minority in IT, and they are hard to survive. Since this bill is intended to take countries of minority's share and to give it to India and Chinese, the diversity problem will become more severe. Such environment must not be beneficial to US citizen either, they are also kind of minority in IT companies in silicon valley.

The idea that these Indian and Chinese will create jobs for US citizen is also ridiculous. If I look around, such case is so slim. I wonder out of 100, how many of them really create jobs. Even if they create some, Indian always consider Indian as ideal candidates, and offer the jobs to their nationals. Anyway, the theory is contradictory in the first place. If you first fill jobs with Indian/Chinese, then they will create jobs for US citizen? This is a joke.

BTW, Indian and Chinese are not as bright as many believes, rather they only exaggerate their contributions and barely meet the job requirement.

First off, I am a Democrat, and this is where I part company with the President. First off, this country has over 12 MILLION unemployed. We do NOT need to be importing help into this country. Amnesty is NOT AN ANSWER. However, this isn't just a democratic issue, it is a REPUBLICAN issue. Think about it. Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, where Hispanic/Latino Republican Congressmen/Senators get elected (along with their State counterparts), want this to keep their job security in their State Capitols, and on Capitol Hill.

Also too, let's also be honest, that if we remove this scourge in this country, we can only expect the degradation of our cities. I haven't seen any sort of great change that has come from the immigration movement since the 1980's. All I have seen is once great cities such as Nashua, and others become run down, with crime and other problems, that these ethnic groups won't do anything to take care of their problems, but yet wish to create a large dependence on government safety nets.

Mr. President, you came into office to tell us that we cannot save the world in 2008. Try for once by living up to your word.