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If you are a "libertarian" then you have my sympathies, and I hope you get help. If not, and care about truth and liberty, then perhaps the following observations might further the cause.

Even if 90% of them just want to work, it is precisely because they are ILLEGAL, and thus unscreened by the State Department, that a much higher % of the migrants are terroristic criminals. Legal immigration and illegal invasion are two entirely different issues.

Studies show that some 12.5% of the 2.2MM prison population consists of illegal aliens. 18 of the 19 terrs on 9/11 were illegals. Some 40,000 of those who suffered violent deaths since 1968 were murdered by illegal aliens. That's a lot of funerals -- because the government failed to defend the border.

I'll bet you live in the suburbs. I have spent the better part of my life on the front lines of the "culture war" in the Bronx and Riverdale, as well as Lowell, MA (a dumping ground for the INS), and have watched first-hand what is the greatest human migration in the history of man occur. Tens of millions have been fleeing wastelands in cities across this country since the early 1970s, while tens of millions of illegals have moved in. Families, cousins, and friends have moved out of my neighborhoods not because they want suburban homes, but in circa 90% of the cases solely because of acts of violence against them or their neighbors by undocumented aliens. Then on 9/11, the first jet flew right over my head and the rest is history. It was not the first shot in what Balint Vasonyi correctly called "America's 30 Year War" (extending back to Johnson's changes in immigration policy -- great book, check it out) -- it was the last. The administration first failed to defend the border, then moved to build a police-state and destroy the 4th Amendment, and then surrendered.

What do you care living in suburban bliss or a city where the illegals aren't running wild? Let someone else pay the price for my Utopian ideals? Those people in the "urban" areas live "over there" -- abstract and out of mind. Well, the cancer is not just "urban" anymore.

People are dying every day from this invasion....

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Good to see the criminal figure revised downward by 90%.

I don't think you'll find an argument from GWB that the situation is not good. His plan is to indeed document those who are currently undocumented. One has to start somewhere. Pragmatism and realism seem to be two characteristics of GWB's approach, not only on this issue but others as well.

You are correct in assuming most of my life has been lived in suburban areas. Today I live in a trailer park in a town of about 40,000 where the hispanic population is large and the unemployment rate is low.

I am under no illusion that a violent crime cannot happen anytime, anywhere. I've walked through some of the nastiest parts of LA and Chicago, spent months here and there in an urban environment. While I don't particularly care for it, I was not cowering in fear.

In short, these millions of immigrants, whether legal or illegal, are not all on a mission to wreak havoc. With or without them, there is a ton of work to do, including a practical way of documenting these folks and allowing thewm the same opportunities we've enjoyed by virtue of our forefathers.