[FerdieMurphy]

A win win situation. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border, take the dirt and raise the levies in New Orleans and put the Florida alligators in the moat. Any other problems you would like for me to solve?

[Malesherbes]

It is absolutely critical that the Republican Party holds the House of Representatives this coming November. It may be the most important election in our lifetime. I live in a safe Republican district, but I'm going to try to find some endangered House member and send my modest but hopefully useful contribution.

[TatieBug]

Keep supporting your Rep representatives who are on the RIGHT side of this issue...I'm helping in other states since CA is Senators are hopeless! Send the entire Judiciary Commitee an email!

[Liberty Valance]

We don't need a new immigration bill. We need to actually enforce the immigration laws already in force.

[SMM48]

This Senate bill better be DOA. I want to see McCain lose big time on this issue. I am fed up with his BS.

[Fruitbat]

One thing that I don't understand is that we seem so eager to help Mexicans. How about freakin' helping them get rid of their Corrupt Government and Fox instead of budddying up to this PoS.

We don't buddy up to Castro or Chavez.

Either way, how about us forcing them to fix their sh#@ hole of a country before we run the enormous risk of allowing tens or hundreds of millions of them coming here to ruin ours and trend it towards what theirs is.

Gangs, corruption (making that in our government look like cheating in a game of solotaire), and a massive lower class lead the way down there.

As it now stands, opening the lock doors with the two levels of water (societal standards) at massively different levels can only yield disastrous results. We need to fill the lock with water first before opening the doors and always keep that lock there as a buffer.

Either way, with all the time, risk, money being wasted on things that only threaten the viability of the U.S., perhaps our focus should be on helping/forcing Mexico to clean up its own mess before we allow them to come in and sh&% inside our borders.

[Celtman]

      I propose a change in terminology.  This situation has gone beyond "illegal immigration."  The Mexican government is using civilians (men, women, and children) to mount an invasion of the U.S., looking toward a hispanic "Anschluss" of the Southwest.  And we have Neville Chamberlain in the White House.  (Actually, the real goal is the unification of the U.S. and Mexico.)

illegal immigrant alien invader

P.S.
I like your moat idea!

[Paleo Conservative]

Should have burried it 4 or 5 years ago.

[MainFrame65]

Keep those faxes and phone calls coming, folks!

I would have said cards and letters, but your congresscritter doesn't actually see those for weeks after you send them, due to detoxification procedures. Calls and faxes are received and tallied - and a few actually delivered verbatim - within 24 hours.

[goldstategop]

Any House member who votes for amnesty is going to be outsourced in November before the country is. And when House members go back home, they will learn the mood of the American people. Its interesting even a RINO like Chris Shays has come out against McCain's handiwork. There's scant support for it in the House and as House members learn what's in the Senate bill, it is indeed to going to die a death of a thousand cuts. As for Rove's influence, I'm afraid its a case of serious political misjudgment; the President isn't on the ballot but every member of the House is up for re-election and conservative GOP members owe a weakened President nothing, especially when his stand on immigration is opposite to that of the American people. Its the politics, stupid.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")