[kellynla]

"Should we shut down tourism as well Miss Laura?" We don't have to shut down tourism, we just have to enforce the present immigration and temporary visa laws. But then I would think you already would know that now wouldn't you? You see the illegals suppress the wages of all Americans, native or naturalized, because an unethical employer can employ the illegal for less money and no benefits and not have to worry about the employee ever complaining.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"We don't have to shut down tourism, we just have to enforce the present immigration and temporary visa laws."

kelly...ours is an open society that respects the right of the individual to be free from unreasonable searches.

If a person overstaying their temporary visa decides to fade into the society, how would you go about finding them?

Would you conduct house searches in the hope that you could capture them somewhere?

How about the ten million illegal aliens in the country, roughly half of them are Mexican, so, do you stop people walking down the street because they "look" Mexican, and ask them to show you proof that they belong here?

If stopped at the street tomorrow, could you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were in fact an American citizen?

I look Hispanic, will I be required to carry sufficient identification on me at all times to satisfy the curiosity of an overzealous LEO?

Just about then only thing that can be done, is to be sufficiently aware to "nab" visa violators at every point they cross paths with law enforcement agencies, and we do that now.

Last year, there were nearly one million voluntary departures of people who were caught overstaying their visas, and a number of forced deportations that I can't recall off the top of my head right now.