[ItisaReligionofPeace]

First of all, driving is not a right. By driving, you agree to follow the laws that are associated w/driving (though I don't like checkpoints either way). As far as a crack house analogy, if I'm not mistaken, the agents went into restaurants and stores. I find it ironic that someone with the name SouternFreebird is perfectly comfortable to have federal agents accosting people who are simply mind their own business. Like I said, there is a way to stop the illegal problem other than harrassing legal citizens!

[eno_]

Show me where the government is authorized to restrict right of citizens to travel by whatever means they desire.

Alternatively, name one unenumerated right.



Yeah, didn't think so.

[Steve Eisenberg]

Like I said, there is a way to stop the illegal problem other than harrassing legal citizens!

If by "harrassing" you mean politely asking questions and slightly inconveniencing, there is no way to combat ANY kind of crime without "harrassing" innocent people. The sentence in italics above is purest utopianism.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

As far as I am concerned, being in the United States is not a right for just everyone. There are responsibilities that go along with being a citizen here and getting all the entitlements one can get as a great many of these people are doing is draining us. I don't want this great country to become a police state either but we have to find a way to crack down on illegal immigrants and to deport those who verify on their legal visa's that they are financially responsible for themselves and then run to the nearest Public Aid office as soon as their feet hit the ground here.