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To: Phsstpok
Yeah I follow you but to me crossing the border illegally is different from speeding and the penalties should be different. Right now you can go to jail for speeding and get a hefty fine. Cross the border illegally and all that happens is the us govt. throws money at you as fast as they can. It's reevaluation time.
702 posted on 05/28/2006 5:04:30 PM PDT by rodguy911 (support the new Media, ticket the drive-bys)
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To: rodguy911
to me crossing the border illegally is different from speeding and the penalties should be different.

You might be able to detect that I am conflicted on this question... <g> 

I fully agree that we have to take back control of our borders and stricly enforce our immigration laws.  At the same time I have a sneaking admiration for folks who have "fought their way through" and made it here, particularly those who really want to become Americans and who are doing more than just searching for a job...  any job, even though I have sympathy for those folks too. 

I divide illegal immigrants into three camps: those who are here only because they want a job; those who are here because they want to "take back what is theirs;" and those who are here because they get it and want to be part of this great experiment.  I want to send the first group back to where they came from, but do all that we can to help them realize their desires in their own homes, put the second group in jail for a very long time then send them back where they came from and then welcome and embrace the third group because they are the same folks that built this county, no matter where we came from.

712 posted on 05/28/2006 5:25:00 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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