[VeniVidiVici]

Why must the knee-jerk reactors on this board automatically make the assumption that they MUST be illegal every time one of them does something stupid/illegal/ill advised?

Sad, isn't it? If we had some sort of plan to keep illegals out we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

I ran into an illegal a while ago at the local gas station. He couldn't even tell the clerk what number pump he was on. His English was THAT deficient.

Of course, listening to you I suppose I was wrong to assume he was an illegal too.

Then at Lowes recently an illegal walked by with an Aztlan t-shirt. I'm still ashamed I thought of him as an illegal. Perhaps five border crossings and a baptismal in the Rio Grande will absolve me of my sins.

[Not A Snowbird]

Of course, listening to you I suppose I was wrong to assume he was an illegal too.

Well, yes. It's entirely possible, deficient English and all, that the person you saw at the gas station was here on a valid work visa. People don't learn English to come up here and work in agriculture.

If you choose to believe every Mexican you see is illegal, that's up to you. I just find it distasteful and I won't do it.

[NucSubs]

Then at Lowes recently an illegal walked by with an Aztlan t-shirt. I'm still ashamed I thought of him as an illegal. Perhaps five border crossings and a baptismal in the Rio Grande will absolve me of my sins. OH! And we get a back-handed swipe at Catholicism too! Or am I profiling?