[presidio9]

I oppose illegal immigration and amnesty. I also oppose the unrealistic notion or rounding up 20mm people and sending them home. If we simply increased security at the borders and stiffened the penalties for employing undocumented workers the problem would correct itself and the protestors wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

[walford]

I oppose illegal immigration and amnesty. I also oppose the unrealistic notion or rounding up 20mm people and sending them home. If we simply increased security at the borders and stiffened the penalties for employing undocumented workers the problem would correct itself and the protestors wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

I concur, but I certainly am in favor of summarily deporting anyone found here illegally. As it is, the constituency for illegal immigration grows as the numbers of illegal aliens grows. This in turn makes it politically more difficult to do even what you advocate -- indeed, it's politically difficult now to deny them taxpayer-funded benes or even driver's licenses.

Unless something nearly impossible happens, Pat Buchanan's prediction that the US becomes a part of the Third World within the next two generations will prove overly modest.

And as I've said in other threads on this subject, this is not a racial issue for me, my mother's maiden name is Maldonado. The flow of immigration must be controlled to allow for assimilation as was the case for mis antepasados.

[lone star annie]

Don't forget cut off the benefits for them and their wives and bambinos.

[lone star annie]

Don't forget cut off the benefits for them and their wives and bambinos.

[IamConservative]

If we simply increased security at the borders and stiffened the penalties for employing undocumented workers the problem would correct itself and the protestors wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

My thoughts exactly. Economics drives this behavior. Presently, with zero enforcement, there is no risk to breaking the law so the illegal and prospective employer both engage in the illegal activity because THERE IS an economic advantage. Step 1, build a fence. Then increase the risk and decrease the economic advantage of the behavior and the unskilled illegals will self deport.

Both legislative bodies are looking this and trying to create an electoral advantage for themselves, which is quite despicable. However, if the Dems think promoting rallies where illegals wave foreign flags is a winning strategy, I think and hope they are gravely mistaken.