[TaxPayer2000]

The hotel and restaurant industries had been pushing hard for the bill, arguing they would be short staffed if thousands of their Mexican employees were forced to return home to apply for visas.

It would seem to me a bad idea to have criminals (ilegal immigrants) handling and preparing our food.

[jokemoke]

It would seem to me a bad idea to have criminals (ilegal immigrants) handling and preparing our food.

You deal with criminals everyday but they are called Americans because they we born here. Obviously you haven't been harmed too much by them. So can we assume that just Mexicans bother you?

God, some of you zealouts are totally nuts!

[FITZ]

(ilegal immigrants) handling and preparing our food

That's not the only thing illegals are doing. You should read up on the Mexican drug cartels and how they've created a vast network into the US using illegals to deliver and distribute drugs. It's very likely more are involved in the drug trade than are picking apples.

[Capt.YankeeMike]

i dont eat in places where the servers cant speak english

[Righty1]

To employers of illegals you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[Z-28]

"It would seem to me a bad idea to have criminals (ilegal immigrants) handling and preparing our food."

One study indicates that over 70% of the illegal farm workers in Florida tested positive for Tuberculosis, and in another study that over 25% of the children in one of the largest school districts in San Diego (Sweetwater), a district with many children of illegal aliens attending school, also tested postive for Tuberculosis.

These are the illegal aliens preparing your Friday night restaurant dinner salads and picking your fresh vegetables.