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Cute cartoon.

However, it is rather inaccurate. Those who enter on visas have more restrictions than those entering illegally. If one overstays a visa, he/she can be deported immediately. If one comes in illegally, one can stay to perpetuity.

Senator Kyl made the point yesterday that 'sending illegals to the end of the line' actually means sending them back to their country of origin BEFORE they can begin the green card application process. [All went quiet. No one clarified nor corrected that thesis.]

[Of course, no one -- politician, citizen, illegal -- expects that to happen. So all that 'go to the end of the line' is just a line, a load of crap. It is like that 'jobs Americans won't do', which is another load of crap. The argument might work IF no Americans are currently employed in those functions. The argument fails because there ARE Americans who work in the fields, who pick lettuce, who clean toilets at Holiday Inn, who sweep up office buildings, etc. Every day there are Americans doing those jobs. It is an insult to imply that they don't. It is elitist to assume they don't.]

[Of course, no one -- politician, citizen, illegal -- expects that to happen. So all that 'go to the end of the line' is just a line, a load of crap. It is like that 'jobs Americans won't do', which is another load of crap. The argument might work IF no Americans are currently employed in those functions. The argument fails because there ARE Americans who work in the fields, who pick lettuce, who clean toilets at Holiday Inn, who sweep up office buildings, etc. Every day there are Americans doing those jobs. It is an insult to imply that they don't. It is elitist to assume they don't.]

Bingo.

My wife, when she was a teenager in high school, worked on the farms during the summer. Hard work -- picking asparagus and cherries -- low pay. But evidently better pay than the current influx of Mexicans that now fill the police blotter section of the local newspaper are willing to accept.

And BTW, my wife was not a "no-career dead-ender" -- she is a schoolteacher, working at the same school she attended. Of course, today, she is expected to "teach" subjects like math and "advanced computers" to the children of illegal aliens who cannot speak a word of English.

It is a total farce. The school system plays the game, because they get mucho-thousandero dinero per annum for each smiling face occupying a seat. So, they "take the classes", they "graduate" (or, more realistically, they "migrate" out after a few months, only to be replaced by other illegal non-english-speakers), and the money flows, flows, flows, like a river.