[defenderSD]

The problem with "simply making it not welcome for them to be here illegally" is that it would devastate our economy to remove all these people from the workforce. Plus the US would gain a horrible reputation in the world as the media plays up all the stories about the children who died of the flu because America wouldn't give them health care and the immigrant children who are malnourished because America won't give them food stamps. Some of those stories would actually be true too. The cost of making all these people unwelcome would far exceed any benefits to our country. But it is time to tighten border security and check out everyone who comes here to work. I like Hannity's plan for immigration.

[chris1]

"Plus the US would gain a horrible reputation in the world as the media plays up all the stories about the children who died of the flu because America wouldn't give them health care and the immigrant children who are alnourished because America won't give them food stamps"

We already have a horrible rep. So who cares what anyone else thinks? I am sick and tired of going everywhere and English being a 2nd language at best and feeling like I am in some other turd world country because El Presidente Jorge feels it is the right thing for this country. He is not a king. He is a hack politician no different than Kerry or Kennedy save for a few issues. Otherwise, he is a bum and globalist like the rest.

[Spiff]

The problem with "simply making it not welcome for them to be here illegally" is that it would devastate our economy to remove all these people from the workforce. Plus the US would gain a horrible reputation in the world as the media plays up all the stories about the children who died of the flu because America wouldn't give them health care and the immigrant children who are malnourished because America won't give them food stamps.

So, we pander to the rest of the world and the leftist media? Let's just run up that white Murtha flag on this issue.

[EternalVigilance]

The idea that the removal of the lawbreakers would 'devastate our economy' is a big lie.

They are depressing wages, driving up taxes, straining our housing stocks to the limit and driving up real estate prices, bankrupting our hospitals, draining our welfare funds, etc., etc., etc.

Your claim is akin to claiming that the removal of cancerous cells would kill all the healthy cells... a prescription for a slow painful death....

[nicmarlo]

Upon what evidence do you state that removal of all illegal aliens "would devastate our economy"?