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Please don't ask for forgiveness for not being an American. Your opinion is as valid as anyone's.

It's hard to tell why a person from Haiti would receive bad treatment from US Immigration agents. Maybe there is more to that story than you are being told.

The immigration problem has been building for years. There is a group of sympathizers within this country who tries to label any attempt at keeping the illegals out as some kind of racist effort. This accusation of racism has kept the politicians from taking effective action against the problem. Another accusation from the sympathizers is that we need the illegal aliens to work here because they do the jobs that American citizens don't want to do. This is actually wrong, since the jobs that the illegals are doing now are jobs that Americans were doing 50 years ago. There are very few "entry level" jobs in this country because many of them are already being done by illegal aliens. It's a wonder our unemployment rate isn't much higher than it is.

Just because there are day labor centers at Home Depot stores in California doesn't mean Home Depot hires illegal aliens. It means that they spend money to give the illegals a place to gather where employers can come and hire them. This is actually an illegal act if Home Depot has reason to believe that some of the people they are aiding are in this country illegally. I wish the federal government would take action against Home Depot, but so far they haven't.

Thanks for the explanation on the Home Depot situation.

What I meant by bad treatment is the usual run around given by civil servants in the immigration department. My critique was that those who enter by legal means are treated like criminals and those that choose the illegal route are rewarded. This goes on here in Canada as well, and it really pisses off the average Canadian who believes in following the law. It is not racial. In fact a Chinese woman I know is frustrated because she has tried for years to get her parents from China into Canada to no avail, yet she sees boat people coming illegally here and then staying. Obviously it is much easier and safer to cross the Rio Grande, so while Canada has major immigration problems, it appears the US problem is catastrophic.

I believe the response to the work argument is it doesn't change the fact that the law has been broken.

Of course Canada was the nation that allowed the Millennium bomber to come into our nation to begin with. He actually committed a few acts of robbery and the folks at immigration refused to deport him. The Canadian government also refused to cooperate with CSIS (Canadian Intelligence) in tracking this individual. He then changed his name through a Quebec baptistery, disappeared, showed up in Vancouver to take possession of assembled bombs and was finally caught in Port Angeles. This is the sort of person Canada regards as ideal immigrants.

Sorry, I got off on a tangent. I guess immigration is a real thorny issue for me.

uh its not home depot, its the city of los angeles. in order for home depot to get a building permit to build a store, a safe haven thing must be built for "day workers". get it? btw, los angeles among thousands of other cities have sanctuary policies, in other words, they order the civil employees not to cooperate with federal immigration laws. place blame where blame lies, at 1600 pennsylvania ave.

Just because there are day labor centers at Home Depot stores in California doesn't mean Home Depot hires illegal aliens. It means that they spend money to give the illegals a place to gather where employers can come and hire them. This is actually an illegal act if Home Depot has reason to believe that some of the people they are aiding are in this country illegally. I wish the federal government would take action against Home Depot, but so far they haven't.

Home Depot neither owns nor operates the day labor site. They were required by the city to build it as a condition of getting their permits approved. The city owns and operates the center at a reported annual cost of $94,000.