[RebelBanker]

Actually, I agree with the set of suggestions you made in post #117 as a decent start toward controlling illegal immigration. Unfortunately, the incentive to come here would still be strong because life here would still be better (as an illegal) than it is in many other countries.

The problem I have seen is the difficulty in separating legal from illegal immigration. Too many Hispanic US citizens and legal immigrants see anti-illegal sentiment as racist. The liberal media is certainly spinning it that way as it pertains to conservatives and/or Republicans. This is prevalent in the Spanish-speaking media (according to Mrs. Reb, who is from Puerto Rico) which is even more liberal than the English-speaking media.

[judgeandjury]

The problem I have seen is the difficulty in separating legal from illegal immigration. Too many Hispanic US citizens and legal immigrants see anti-illegal sentiment as racist. The liberal media is certainly spinning it that way as it pertains to conservatives and/or Republicans. This is prevalent in the Spanish-speaking media (according to Mrs. Reb, who is from Puerto Rico) which is even more liberal than the English-speaking media.

I agree that finding a solution to the problem of illegal immigration is going to be difficult because there are many different groups involved in this issue, with several groups being on the pro-illegal immigration side and several groups being on the anti-illegal immigration side. Illegal immigration is another example of our government letting a problem get out-of-control before it steps in and tries to resolve it. But no matter what is finally done to deal with the problem of illegal immigration, a lot of people are going to be very unhappy with our government's "solution".