[wk4bush2004]

Very well said. SECURE THE BORDERS NOW!!!!!!

[26lemoncharlie]

And there are plenty of bureaucrats who benefit by the increased personnel and budgets that come from servicing the illegal alien population. In a system that can only be described as institutionalized racism, everyone but the illegal makes a lot of money by ignoring the law.
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Justification for their jobs, JOB security for the bureaucrats for servicing illegal aliens!! Like trying to push Sh8t up a hill!!

It's a sure thing that their JOBS will not be outsourced to a foreign country -- the Foreign Country is coming here!!

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

"Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times. Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent. The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent."

Wonder what all the illegals have to do with this ... working for substandard wages? BTW I doubt that the illegals' SS, WFT and the Employer's portion of SS are turned over to the Government in most cases, unless it is under the employer's SSN to get tax credits.

[NewRomeTacitus]

The good news is that the federal government allows state and local government to enforce federal immigration laws, if they choose. Nowhere in this country is there a state or local agency whose sole function is to enforce federal immigration laws.

So why not enforce federal law? Why not set up a state agency that could enforce these laws throughout the state with trained police personnel in a comprehensive and uniform manner throughout the state? At the border. In the jails. At the street corners where everyone sees them standing every day soliciting under-the-table labor for the day. It is too easy. Why didn’t anyone think of it before?

Will it cost too much? It will cost about $200-300 million dollars, but it could save us $5 billion. That is worth the cost. Will it protect us? The public safety danger of not controlling our borders is obvious. The cost of doing nothing is too high. To do this, I have introduced ACA 20, which would establish the California Border Police agency. There is a simultaneous effort to place this idea on the ballot via the initiative process, which you can learn about at www.calborderpolice.com.

NOW we're told nothing stops states from enforcing federal immigration law after being told for years that their hands are tied? If this fellow is right his suggestions should be implimented immediately. It IS still our country, isn't it?

Thanks ParsifalCA for posting this.

[ken21]

this is amusing because when governor grey davis was sworn in, his first order of business was to fly to mexico to meet with (then) el presidente ernesto zedillo!

arnold has not visited mexico city as governor.

[Ajnin]

One of the main reasons that the Federal Government is ineffective at enforcing immigration law is because of California. Vehicle pursuits conducted by the Border Patrol to apprehend smugglers were effectively eliminated because of an incident that occurred in California. Ca is the bastion of anti-law enforcement political correctness. The idea of having a Ca Border Patrol seems like just another episode of pissing in the wind on the immigration channel.