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"Be specific, what do we do?"

This is a question you should ask of Asa Hutchinson. After all, isn't he chartered with enforcing the laws of this nation?

Why should I, an American Taxpayer, have to tell him how to do his job?

The fact remains that with 2-million illegal immigrants in So. Kalifornia someone is failing to perform their job... and the buck stops at Asa's desk. As Joe Hadenuf has so kindly tried to point out to you, this problem is not specific to Kalifornia. It is infesting the inner-reaches of this land, and the taxpayers are paying the price.

My turn...

So, in your humble opinion, what should be done about this influx of illegal immigrants across our Mexican border? Or, is this even a problem as far as you are concerned?

This is a question you should ask of Asa Hutchinson.

If you're among those tying up his phone lines, at least you should have an idea of what you want him to do.

Why should I, an American Taxpayer, have to tell him how to do his job?

"Fix it" is not a proper job description. You have to be specific and if you can't, you should try to elect people who can. You need to read my rant and get a grip on exactly how massive this problem is.

Torie is right. There's a demand side here. But even that is hard to get a hold of. You can't go after every single contractor who hires an illegal immigrant for 3 months. You're going to be complaining forever.

So, in your humble opinion, what should be done about this influx of illegal immigrants across our Mexican border? Or, is this even a problem as far as you are concerned?

The answer to #1 is that I don't know. I wish I did. Some punishing of employers who knowingly (aye, the rub) hire illegals and some returning of them across the border would help. That silly interpretation of the 14th amendment that makes anybody born on this soil a citizen has got to go. But these will have have limited effect and noone should ever expect a miracle on this account. The easiest way to solve this is to (*gasp*) trade with Mexico to make their economy less anemic.

The answer to #2 is yes, but . . . After 9/11, the main concern is with people who scream "Death to America!" in Arabic and not those who whisper "¿Donde está el trabajo?" One of the problems with this is that overstaying the Visa is the easiest way of avoiding detection. Get a Visa, come to the US and get lost. How is anybody going to find you? Especially if somebody else is paying for you to live? The INS has life-and-death issues of a grand scale to deal with now and I am happy that they can devote any time at all to Mexican immigration.

But I do not have to come up with a solution. I am not the one who is calling switchboards to feel good about myself. I am not projecting a vast societal problem onto one bureaucrat with respect to one issue. You are the one who doesn't like what Hutchinson has done, so you are the one who has to tell him what to do. I have a bigger picture in mind and, believe it or not, I have better things to do than to get spammed by zealots who cannot see the forest for the trees.

Or the branches.

Or, for that matter, a single leaf.