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No, right in N. Texas where I see first-hand the debillitating effects of illegal immigration and being an employer of only AMERICANS who PAYS ALL OF MY EMPLOYMENT TAXES (unlike numerous other local businesses) I feel very qualified to back up my comments.

I live in N. Texas, too, between Dallas and Fort Worth.

I have to tell you, I think we've handled illegal immigration pretty well here in the Metroplex. I'm not in favor of a blanket amnesty, but would like to take a work program as a starting point for discussion.

I'm against illegal immigration but this article is obviously exaggerated and slanted. Bush has not proposed national suicide. He is attempting to get Mexicans signed up as legitimate temporary workers. There is no danger to the USA in that. Zero. I would like to see a policy at the same time of cutting off further illegal entries. We'll see.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'handle it well'. I see rising crime by illegals and if you've caught most of the local news lately, it's been a menagerie of shootings, a mother leaving her baby to burn in a house, a teenager stabbed and killed by another, etc. A friend of mine who works for the Dallas police said in all the cases they were illegals. The problem as I see it is due to low interest rates many illegals are staying employed, working in construction (geez I don't see any lowering of housing prices) but what happens when the inevitable occurs and interest rates rise so much that construction slows down dramatically. We'll be left with hundreds of thousands of these people just in N. Texas who have no way to earn a living and if social services can't meet the demand to help them then we'll truly have a good barometer of "how we're handling it". These folks are not going to be in a good mood and I think they'll have no problem showing their displeasure.