[SwinneySwitch]

You forgot about the terroristas, slavers and drug smugglers, Charles!

[NavVet]

I wish more people tried to gain political advantage by enforcing our immigration laws. That said, I do think strict employer targeted enforcement would do more to stem the tide than anything else. And if the border wasn't flooded with illegal job seeking immigrants, the terrorist would have a harder time "blending in".

[SwinneySwitch]

Border Ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.

[son of caesar]

when senor hernandez states hes not for open borders, you can take that three dollar bill to the bank and know for sure he is for COMPLETELY OPEN BORDERS, do not be fooled by this fool. while reading this article, i figured here is another aztlan activist/liberal/commie whatever. when i saw that senor hernandez is a congressenuch, i just laughed a bit and said, how appropriate. senor doesnt like the minutemen getting political power for their pov, but senorita hernandez sure likes political power for his side of things. he must be one of them white mexicans, after all, they know better than the other type of mexicans.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION

U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

MINUTEMAN HQ

[clee1]

I am SO sorry you are offended, Senor Gonzalez. NOT!

[Personal Responsibility]

All anyone needs to know about this article can be inferred from the author's use of "undocumented immigrants" instead of "illegal immigrants".

[generalhammond]

Lets analyse the language here: hostility and hateful rhetoric aimed at undocumented immigrants. By whom?

undocumented immigrants - come on, are thieves undocumented owners.

Then a bit of - hey I'm really one of you guys, really lines followed by The truth is...

Sorry bub, but you liberals espouse post modernist arguments when it suits and then hypocritically shove THE TRUTH down our necks. The truth is the borders need to be closed and, until then, they need to be watched.

In Australia, when the government came down hard on illegal "boat people", locked them up and deported them - the flow stopped within a matter of months. Just do it.

 

[RoadTest]

The only thing that makes border problems worse are illegal immigrants.

[HiJinx]

One argument we often hear is that undocumented workers take low-paying jobs Americans refuse to do. However, the reality is that if the jobs paid a living wage, more Americans would do them. If we are successful in putting an end to unscrupulous employers exploiting illegal labor and driving down wages, there will be better paying jobs for more Americans.

Well, well. Good on ya', Congressman. Keep saying that daily for another 15 years and you might get one or two of your colleagues to believe you.

But, don't despair. We're helping you get the word out...you just get that legislation passed, y'hear?

[TLI]

and dangerous to encourage, a group of amateur vigilantes such as the Minutemen to undertake such a task.

Dangerous to whom? I just finished 32 days in El Paso on the Texas Minutemen Border Watch Op and by the second week of October the Juarez Newspaper was printing "If you have come here to cross the border you are too late, the Minutemen are here." We were getting a few stragglers, but the six major crossing areas east of Fabens that usually had two or three cars and five to twenty five people hanging around trying to cross at any given time were empty. Nada! No one to be seen.

The only danger was the coyotes going out of business.

[Marine Inspector]

This bill would do more to stem illegal immigration then any other bill out there.

Finally, someone in Congress gets it right.

[Clemenza]

Comment: Border problems made worse by Minutemen,

Uh, No! Nothing wrong with a neighborhood watch along the border.

employers

Yes. When I would see these guys gather in my nabe in New York, I would see locally based contractors picking them up and hiring them. Its time to enforce sanctions against employers!

[afnamvet]

From anti-immigration and civilian militia bills being introduced in Congress to some of my colleagues welcoming the Minutemen to Texas, I have watched as the all-too-familiar political posturing about undocumented immigrants has become increasingly negative.

Gonzalez's La Raza membership card just fell out of his wallet for all to see.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

If anti-immigration groups, such as the Minutemen, are serious about stemming the flow of illegal immigration, they should refocus their efforts and picket or boycott the worksites and employers. . . .

What does this clown think the Minutemen, et al. are doing?

He describes some good ideas (a fine against employers of $50,000 per undocumented worker) to deal with the problem but he sounds like some pip-squeak political hack who will not extend to anti-ILLEGAL immigration groups the courtesy of acknowledging that their concern is ILLEGAL immigration not traditional immigration.

He obviously has no personal honesty to first see what anti-ILLEGAL immigrant folks are doing before having some tax-payer paid office flunky type in his splutterings.

He's a Democrat, for sure. Thus, is he really telling the truth about the fines?