[Jeff Head]

"Everybody is against them but everybody enjoys their labor."

Gross generalizations there. Many of us do not enjoy their illegal labor and wish that we would inforce sane immigration policy as well as inacting sane economic policy.

Being against illegal immigration and attempts to reward/normalize it does not equate with being against immigration or any particular ethnic or cultural group.

We need people to come here and be a part of America...and be willing to work, assimilate into the American culture, understand and defend freedom, etc., etc. But it has to happen legally and in a fashion that compliments those very things.

We do not accomplish that with violating the law and then calling it good.

[Bob]

We need people to come here and be a part of America...and be willing to work, assimilate into the American culture, understand and defend freedom, etc., etc.

Yes, but we can also use the services of a controlled number of people to work here for a specific time period and return to their country of origin when that work ends.

The only guest-worker program that I'd support would have to include, at a minimum: application made from outside the U.S., a fixed time period (less than a year), and a required return to the worker's home country. Anything less is just an amnesty by another name.

[mercy]

I didn't say just let them flood in here. But doing nothing is tatamount to condoning the worst sort of victimization of these ... Human Beings.

Military on the border and all that is pie in the sky BS. Not feasible. Not going to happen.

But nobody wants to admit that every single one of us benifits from their labor. Every day and most every way.

Our birth-rate is not high enough to provide adequate labor even IF American kids by and large wanted to work. We are quite spoiled as a society and we just don't like getting our hands dirty any more. I know I know .... not all of us. But a majority. We're paper pushers and desk jokies these days.

Somebody has to do the grunt work. Create a system. Let them in. Tax them.