[bluefish]

BS - I've hit the abuse button on comments that were clearly racist on other threads. Little smears like "gee, I wonder if they were illegal" when the subject of an article sported an Hispanic surname. I've called them to task.

Yet, I have a problem with encouraging full-blown immigration. Nothing racist about it.

I don't fear that they will take my job either, by any stretch. What I fear is paying for the $8 head of lettuce you pro-illegals always challenge us with.

We already get the $8 head of lettuce. It just comes by way of taxes to support bi-lingual education, social programs, a burening prison system and also by way of increased healthcare costs, etc.

The problem is, the money I have to pay is filtered through an inefficient bureaucracy, so it ends up costing me MORE than the $8 head of lettuce.

Take away the costs of cheap labor, and I am more than happy to pay $8 for the head of lettuce. That, or implement Prop 187 and deny services to illegals AND legals (and even U.S. born citizens as far as I'm concerned), and then I won't have a problem with any immigration. At that point, those who come here would be the ones I welcome with open arms.

[Porterville]

I do not believe it is possible to politically or tactically remove 8-12 million unknown human beings, many with legal family members... it won't happen, so alternative options have to be explored.