[M. Thatcher]

The wealthy folks of Westchester DON'T GIVE A SH-T ABOUT IMMIGRATION. Its basically a more urbanized version of Manhattan. Do you REALLY expect the folks in Scarsdale, Chappaqua, etc. to leave their liberalism behind to join together with the lunch pailers from places like Yonkers in some "anti-illegal" coalition?

Actually, they do.

I live in Mount Kisco, and there are dozens of working class towns like mine in Westchester - we do not all fit your caricature of rich snobs. (And what on earth could be "more urbanized" than Manhattan??) The illegal immigrant population strains social services to the breaking point and tremendously increases crime. Virtually everyone here is fed up - but stymied, since everything the law-abiding citizens have tried has been thwarted by the illegals' legal victories, ironic enough.

[Clemenza]

I was referring to the folks in Scarsdale, Pound Ridge and Chappaqua. The only folks from Westchester I meet who really give a sh-t about immigration are the usual suspects (blue collar white Catholics from North Yonkers, Dobbs Ferry, etc.), who are a minority in the county. Westchester has been blue for some time, with the limousine liberals who move up to the towns I initially mentioned from Manhattan after they decide to breed. They vote for the same liberal Dems as they did when they lived in the city. Immigration is not a major priority for them.

[Clemenza]

Whatever one's position is, the folks who HIRE the illegals to mow their lawns, work as nannies, work on their construction sites, work in their restaurants and pizzerias, etc., are VERY MUCH a part of the problem. Whining about some legal defense group isn't going to do much. We must put pressure on 1. our politicians to have the balls to enforce the laws. Remember that it is these politicians who appoint our judges in the first place and 2. Our neighbors who hire these folks.

But since you live in a county where people vote for the likes of Nita Lowey and Eliot Engel (who was my former congressman, btw. A step up from his predecessor Mario Biaggi, but still a scumbag), you are SCREWED.

[Senator Pardek]

I never thought I'd say I'm afraid to go to MK, but I'm afraid to go to MK.