[Dane]

Getting people to come here and work is the least of our problems. There are plenty of poor people in Africa, for instance, who would jump at the chance to come here and pick apples and tomatoes, nightlife or no nightlife. There are legal means to get the workers farmers need. We do not need to resort to leaving our southern border open and hoping for the best

You do know the 9/11 hijackers didn't come over the southern border, but through the airports.

And also you do know about a terrorist cell that was broken up north of the border in a well establsihed islamofascist enclave in Toronto.

[taxed2death]

"Immigrant funds flow to Cannon campaign"

[LadyNavyVet]

Just because it didn't happen that way on 9-11 doesn't mean it can't. For all the billions we've spent on homeland security in the past few years, we've left a gaping hole in our defenses because powerful business lobbies care more about their bottom lines than they do the security of their fellow Americans. And fedgov is complicit in it. The American people deserve better.

[308MBR]

Dane, I have a dumb question concerning the need our society has for all these low skilled laborers.

We already have a couple of native born ethnic groups with sky high birthrates and roughly a 50% dropout rate from high school. However, they refuse to work because AFDC, welfare and SSI benefits are too lucrative. In times past, these people did the work the illegals are doing now, and it's past time for them to get started working again.

All illegal aliens should be rounded up and sentenced to six months hard labor constructing a REAL WALL on our southern border, then shipped home and banned for life from returning under pain of lifetime imprisonment. I don't care if their grandkid IS carrying a gun in Iraq.