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Excellent! Does this mean Washington might actually be listening?

Washington is definately listening but I don't know how much good it will do. It seems that Fox is on top of Bush and Bush is on top of Congress.

Keep your eye on Monterey in a couple of days.

My view on "illegals" doesn't stem from politics; it comes from how they've taken over my small, once-peaceful town. Instead of hiding, they are flaunting their presence and their mastery of schemes to secure false ID's, drive with no insurance, pay no taxes, file no income tax, and a score of other scams. They have learned exactly how to break every local law because they know they won't be caught or deported.

All the while, these people are uneducated, illiterate, and by all appearances uneducable.

I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants just like them will benefit from the passage of 245(i). Would anyone expect them to "change their habits" or their "personal behavior" just because amnesty is granted? They have no desire to contribute to our society, nor any means to do so, because they are simply unskilled, and they don't understand American principles of fairness or ethics.

They live 10 or 12 to small apartments or trailers, and they know that welfare will take care of their emergencies and/or supplement their low-wage jobs, if needed. They invite their aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews (by the hundreds) ~ not to mention friends (by the hundreds) ~ to join them here (also illegally) and have cheered for those who "made it" across the border after 9/11.

These are the kinds of people amnesty rewards, as well as their lifestyles. What could be a greater threat to the higher standards built by Americans which we've come to know and to treasure with pride?