Your own local law enforcement won't trouble itself to enforce immigration, you won't bother to vote politicians into office who deal with the issue. I'm sorry, but the feds have much bigger fish to fry right now. This is amazing. This administration tries to get some hold on immigration (largely due to 9/11) and you guys want to bitch and moan that there aren't 3.4 million soldiers at your little Mexican border, machine-gunning people down on sight. The INS has vastly tightened its grip since 9/11, but no, we have to make sure one tiny operation doesn't get interrupted because some agitating little jerk on the radio gets his panties in a wad over it!
Fences won't stop anything. A number of the cases Joe cites were people overstaying their visas and I can guarantee you they didn't spend one minute in Mexico.
What's the solution? What do we do? You can complain all you want, you can post as many stories of illegal immigrations committing (other) crimes all you want, but tell me what you want to do
Other than having an administration official give you glib answers on the radio. Because each and every one of you are nothing but a contrarion. Go ahead, deny that you're just a contrarion.
Chill Dude....
We just wanted the sweeps to continue....
"Don't have a cow man" ... (sorry I should have remembered you're in Idaho)....
Oh dear. Us folks down here in the South are narrow minded and self centered.
Whatever will we do to redeem ourselves?
Maybe the U.N. could re-educate us.
For one - make it law that at least one parent of a child born or immigrating into this country is a citizen before conferring citizenship on the child.
Two - eliminate welfare as a career, limit benefits so those Americans that won't do those jobs Americans won't do won't be paid not to do them.
Third - penalize felon companies/businesses/individuals who aid/hire Illegals to the point of bankruptcy, or close them completely.
Fourth - charge elected officials and judges who seek to aid illegals with the same crime counts as would a citizen face under similar charges.
Fifth - require every taxpayer funded program to determine the applicant's legal status before any assistance is considered and require agencies to report fraudulent applicants to authorities.
Sixth - give broad enforcement authority to all LEO's so they can help apprehend illegals.
Seventh - eliminate any chance of apprehended illegals being given "appearance dates". Detain every one until their scheduled deportation.
Last - place bounties on illegals, absconders, and their felon aids and publish their names.
Put the military on the border.California is a little provincial region? So do nothing?Conservatives are out numbered in California. We are the ones trying to get something done by the useless federal government.You must prefer that they remain useless.Iowa my be the last state to fall to illegals,since anyone with any sense won't live there, but if California goes the rest will follow. Ever heard of Gray Davis? One at a time we'll get rid of them.You must live in a bubble. Or think you do.