[My2Cents]

What is your alternative? Throwing out all farmworkers? Some kind of guest worker program is the only way to keep the agricultural industry in the Southwest from going belly-up.

[supercat]

What is your alternative? Throwing out all farmworkers? Some kind of guest worker program is the only way to keep the agricultural industry in the Southwest from going belly-up.

There may be a need for guest-worker legislation that would allow farmworkers to enter from Mexico on temporary visas. That does not, however, justify allowing line-jumpers more freedoms than those who attempt to go through this country's long and arduous legal immigration process.

Personally, I'd support an amnesty for illegal aliens iff it was modeled after the RIAA's "amnesty" program: if an illegal alien goes to a government office before Dec 31, 2003, gives a photograph and fingerprints, and signs a form acknowledging their nationality and agreeing that if they are caught in this country illegally after Jan 1, 2004, they'll go to prison for five years; then after they've signed that form they'll be allowed to go home (i.e. their country of origin).

[ETERNAL WARMING]

You've been misinformed. Less than 2% of illegals actually pick your lettuce.

Less than 6% pay any taxes.

25% are on public assistance. Why should we taxpayers subsidize someone's cheap labor?

28% of the prison population are illegal aliens who have committed crimes against American Citizens.

They cost us taxpayers $20,000,000,000 a year.

They displace 730,000 US workers a year.