[lucysmom]

The fact of the matter is that as long as the border is unprotected so that Arizona is overrun with illegals, the people are going to be suspicious of everybody who looks Mexican that they don’t already know is legal.

I suppose your attitude would be the same if you were the one being stopped and asked for your papers over and over again.

As an aside, illegal immigration is down 67%, and the number of illegal immigrants in the country has actually declined by 8%.

Between 2000 and 2005, an average of 850,000 people a year entered the United States without authorization, according to the report released Wednesday. As the economy plunged into recession between 2007 and 2009, that number fell to 300,000.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/pew_illegal_immigration_down_b.html

I'll end with this famous quote:

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

[butterdezillion]

What I’d like to know is if we have a way of measuring how many illegal immigrants are entering, then why don’t we have a way of stopping them?

If I was a legal immigrant I would be furious with the people who were breaking the rules so nobody would know whether they could trust me or not.

It’s the same way I feel about hypocritical Christians who give the rest of us a bad name.