[FreePaul]

Are you deliberately ignoring what I said in my previous posts? I will make judgements on national political candidates when they run. Making judgements on the Mayor's race is the subject. Sanchez, along with the other current candidates have agreed that they will give safe harbor to ILLEGAL aliens. Do you believe that government officials should be allowed to enforce only those laws with which they agree? Doesn't seem to be the kind of government I want.

[Action-America]

My point was and remains that the help or damage that a mayor can do concerning illegal aliens is miniscule, compared to the help or damage that Congress and the President can cause.  If the mayor wants to play hardball with illegal aliens and the BCIS (formerly INS) is soft on them, then he would be wasting taxpayer dollars on something that will have little, if any, return.  On the other hand, if the mayor is soft on illegal aliens and the BCIS is tough, there won't be much of a problem, since the BCIS will be doing their job.

What it all boils down to is that anything that any city official, up to and including the mayor, can do about that problem is going to have virtually no effect, compared to what the feds do.  It's a matter of SCALE and RELEVANCY

I don't worry about it for the same reason that the IRS doesn't waste their time going after some guy who cheated on his taxes to the tune of $5.00.  It's immaterial, just as what the mayor can do to effect the problem with illegal immigrants is immaterial.  That's SCALE.  When you go to the hardware store and buy 50 feet of rope, are you going to complain if, when you get it home, it is a half inch too shore or too long.  That's SCALE.

However, as I said before, should Orlando some day run for a national office, then I would think that his position on illegal immigrants was worth my attention.  But, as mayor?  Worrying about his position on illegal immigrants would be like worrying about his position on our China policy or his position on guns in the cockpit.  That's RELEVANCY

Like you, I believe that illegal immigration is a major problem in this country.  It's just not the mayor's problem.

You need to reexamine your priorities and stop worrying about issues where the mayor can have, at best, a nominal effect and consider the real issues where the mayor routinely has a significant effect.  SCALE and RELEVANCY.  SCALE and RELEVANCY.  Just keep repeating that phrase.  SCALE and RELEVANCY.