[fieldmarshaldj]

"Being an immigrant myself (legal - now citizen) I will refrain from debating immigration as much as possible; other than to say that what is being displayed on this website is sometimes offensive to me - it's fair game, I think, to discuss both legal vs. illegal and number of total immigrants to allow but I fear that the line is getting a bit blurred between the illegal / legal debate and being negative to immigrants in general and that is not too good. As a matter of fact I see it as being somewhat of a threat to the high regard of Free Republic"

It is the media and radical leftist activists seeking to blur the lines for political gain (essentially to make Hispanics complete slaves to the Democrat plantation as they have Blacks). I cannot think of a group in America that should be more anti-illegals than those like you who followed the rules to become a citizen. Getting lumped in with criminal invaders would boil my blood.

[okvalvaag]

Thanks!

You are right about that - there is a climate in the country these days that I have not experienced previously, a climate where a few, I am assuming simple minded, people assume that I am an illegal since I have a slight accent. (I have lived here 20 years - met this cutie from Michigan on the train to Paris one day and we have been married for 26 years now, we started out our marriage with 6 years in my homeland but, I had to relent and buy her a home next to Mom in Michigan eventually)