[dirtboy]

George Bush has promoted a sensible immigration plan

Is that anything like sensible gun control laws?

[gubamyster]

ping

[SC33]

Well, it appears the big business lobby is firmly behind the Bush amnesty plan.

And we wonder why the Republican party gets the reputation as being synonomous with big business.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

“Don't let anyone tell you we can't control our borders,”

[John Jorsett]

I notice that this editorial manages to avoid mentioning that the Southern border is a (if not 'the') major channel for illegal drugs and sex slaves. And I'll bet if I wanted to smuggle in a bioweapon or a nuke, that's the way I'd do it.

[BlueStateDepression]

The illegals undoubtedly boost the economy.

They present a massive draw upon it in the areas of healthcare welfare and medicaid to the tune of a negative balance. They wash dishes more cheaply than locals would, benefiting anybody who ever goes to a restaurant.

Well here in Illinois, the fourth most affected state by illegal immigration, my brother was washing dishes at chili's restaraunt making less money per hour than the mexicans that were cooking. The same mexicans that bragged about being here illegally. Without these folks here more Americans would be working and more would have money to go to a restaraunt.

Without Mexicans, vegetables would go unpicked

BWAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA whatever! Cmon now. There is no validity in that statement.

and nursing homes would be filthy.

My wife would take offense and beg to differ with this statement. As a CNA for more than a decade, she would offer you some other reasons for why nursing homes are the way they are.

Oh yeah, I'm white, so is my brother and so is my wife.

[Redbob]

"...helicopters (of which he already has 53—four times more than are available to help feed Sudan's stricken Darfur region)."

WTF does maintaining the security of our borders have to do with Sudan???

[Joe Brower]

Perhaps of interest.

[atomic_dog]

Hmmm, where's the "Gringo de Mexico" banknote?

[VU4G10]

[djf]

I don't understand it.

Bush wants to make Iraq more like America.

But he doesn't seem to care if America becomes more like Mexico.

Let's just ship the illegal immigrants to Iraq!!

Problem solved!!!

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1530000/posts
Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1529927/posts
CIS - Canada: The Organized Crime Marketplace in Canada

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts
Sex Tourism: Addressing the Demand for Trafficking

[WasDougsLamb]

PROTECT OUR BORDERS and PROTECT US CITIZENS


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525711/posts

[DumpsterDiver]

All told, there are an estimated 11m "illegal aliens". Many Americans do not mind.

Most likely because those are the Americans who are employing/exploiting illegal aliens.

[Plutarch]

The article doesn't mention the drain on the public treasury illegals represent. The reason being, for that, the illegal advocates have no answer, since they admit that each illegal cost the taxpayers $89,000.

The FR pro-illegal Quislings shrink from any questions about the public cost of illegals as does Count Dracula from sunlight.

[tertiary01]

They wash dishes more cheaply than locals would, benefiting anybody who ever goes to a restaurant. Without Mexicans, vegetables would go unpicked and nursing homes would be filthy.

Thanks for posting too bad it's full of so much BS like that above.

I swear that many in my area hire illegals because they know the illegals will follow orders blindly without questioning the possible code violations involved. And WHEN CAUGHT, the employer is able to blame away any descrepancies. After all, the offending parties are long gone and we must feel sorry for the "poor Mexicans". A neighbor did just that and blamed the Mexicans he hired for the contruction of the fence that took a quarter acre of my Mom's property. He said "the Mexicans" told him they found a property line corner marker and fenced to it. It was a lie, he was just trying to steal property for a vineyard and hoped we wouldn't notice. Most likely any reputable fence builder would have hesitated at putting a fence in that area. Meanwhile, we had to pay for a survey to reestablish our property line boundary, so the surveying companies get more business too.

Not only do these owners get away with not paying withholding, taxes, etc., they have a scape goat for other illegal actions. Meanwhile the county officials in charge of code violations just look the other way.

[sheana]

"The current immigration system isn’t “broken” or “failed;” it's just unenforced. Not unenforceable, mind you, just ignored. Americans don’t want so-called “immigration reform, they want strict enforcement of immigration laws, an end to illegal immigration and amnesties, and an end to the rampant lawlessness engendered by politically-correct refusal to enforce our civil laws.

There's free food, subsidized housing, reduced mortgages, food stamps, free medical and education, reduced tuition and suspension of out of state tuition fees--all of this is your reward for breaking the law, but only if you aren't already an American. If you're an American, forget about it; you have to pay your way through life. This is your reward for obeying the law.

Americans have to pay full price for their education, medical care, homes, and on top of that, our taxes go to pay for criminals--that is what illegal aliens are, make no mistake: they are criminals--who get all of that for little or even for nothing. This makes it possible--even easy--for them to work for $10 an hour or less. How many of us could afford to work for peanuts IF our homes, medical, food and education were all paid for? I know that the bulk of our bills are student loans and medical; take away those bills and you take away 90% of our debt. And I know too many people my age in the same boat...so calling it a national epidemic is probably an understatement.

After all, we're the real Americans...that means we have to pay for things that immigrants--including/especially illegals--get for free so long as they have a pulse and a sob story."

[ckilmer]

the president's speach was smoke and mirrors.

I don't think any sensible person believed a word the president said on the border issue.

[Marine Inspector]

George Bush has promoted a sensible immigration plan

LOL, his plan is anything but sensible.

[judgeandjury]

The illegals undoubtedly boost the economy.

BS. Illegal aliens don't boost the economy. Workers boost the economy. And those workers can and should be comprised solely of Americans and legal immigrants.

They wash dishes more cheaply than locals would, benefiting anybody who ever goes to a restaurant.

Yes, illegal aliens do drive down wages. And the money saved by restaurant owners who employ illegal aliens go into the owner's pockets, benefitting solely the owners.

Without Mexicans, vegetables would go unpicked and nursing homes would be filthy.

Completely, totally, 100% untrue.