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Your view of illegal immigration is highly colored by you working with them. I have read Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" ,who worked with so many Hispanics in NYC restaurants. I am familiar with the food industry. I know there are tons of illegals working in the restaurant business. Many of them fine people but illegal as heck, as illegal as me stabbing someone with a knife or drunk driving. There wouldn't be so many restaurants if it were not for illegal aliens. So what? If the iron and steel industry had been allowed to hire illegal aliens we would have a lot more American steel companies alive today.

Legal legal legal legal legal legal.
We cannot have illegal aliens flooding our sovereign nation. Make this current crop of 12 million legal and you will provide a huge incentive for more illegal immigration, Same as happened from Ronald Reagan's' amnesty. This is not Mexico, this is the sovereign nation of the United States of America. GWBush plan dilutes my precious American citizenship. GWBush mocks it! I have no sympathy for this tide of illegal Mexicans/Central Americans flooding my country. They are greedy pigs butting into the line of orderly immigration

How would you feel if you tried for years to bring a relative here from Italy? Someone who dearly wants to live here and contribute on a high level? He is university educated. Then Karl Rove/GWBush come along and says "Screw you Carlo! Mexicans and Central American law breakers go to the head of the line. Screw your Italian biologist cousin!"

How about having your cousin learn some Spanish and sneak in across the border?

Mexicans do it.

Islamic terrorists do it.

Lets all just break the federal and state laws now.

Starting with defunding the IRS and other agencies.

We US citizens seem to have now been told that US law means nothing.

If I was your cousin I would not let illegal aliens from Mexico, Central America, or the middle east or Red China sneak in and take his spot he has waited for.

Time for the old "student Visa" trick and getting lost in the USA?

It seems the INS and IRS and FBI do not consider this any big deal.

Especially if we go along with GW's "non-reciprocal" worker plans.

Call your US Rep and 2 US Senators and ask them which laws e can now ignore.

IRS statutes?

No Problemo for Pedro and his working under the table paid wife getting food stamps and free medical care.

This is going to encourage more Americans to go "underground".

1099s or nothing at all.

We are told it is now "The American Way" and fine with DC and both parties.

Line up suckers, here come the hordes of more lawbreakers.

US citizens will foot the bill.

Or will we?

If they did not/do not control, arrest, try 12-24 million illegal aliens here now in the USA how can they come after 280 millon honest Americans?

America is governed with the consent of The People.

You!

Say no!

100% reciprocal agreements with Mexico and other countries or forget it!

The line is drawn in the sand now.

Dare them to crossing it in DC!

Your view of illegal immigration is highly colored by you working with them.

Indeed I am more than biased by my personal experiences, but I am not without compassion for the rest of us taxpayers.. The overwhelming number of these unfortunate folks, never see a government check or visit a doctor because of fear of being caught. That doesn't make it right, and I do concur.. my post was only to draw some attention to a second side of this issue.. an issue that I think is being used more to alienate Bush voters than solve legitimate problems..

But to take another point that you made.. Shut down restaurants and whatever if we need low-level workers, is a more of the problem with this hot button issue.. Of the hundreds of workers that my company employed for over 20 years, less than 5% of our workforce was exposed to any need of lower standard skills. The 95% of workers were handsomely compensated and more than happy to have steady work to support their families.. I wish we would have been able to have kept the Steel Mills at work much the same way.. Hundreds of thousands of workers would have had better incomes had that prevailed.. JUST A THOUGHT..