[LS]

Maybe you aren't reading the posts carefully enough, or, certainly, reading between the lines. In fact, there are many here who DO see all Hispanics as welfare recipients or otherwise lazy bums.

Now, I don't know how many times I can say this---and this is the problem any time you try to discuss this rationally with people---but I do not favor illegal immigration. I favor legal immigration. That is what I FAVOR.

What is reality is that we are going to have illegal immigration under almost any circumstances. The border is too long, and (let's imagine welfare no longer exists) the incentives to work are too great. The question then becomes, how do we handle the residue of illegal immigrants that continue to come in?

I say it is a pipe dream to think that you can pass any law against any employer that will prohibit the hiring of such people and really try to make it stick. I don't have an easy answer, but I know what some of the answers aren't. Thinking that we can just "close down the border" will not work. We can do better. We can improve a lot. But the best thing we can do is to ditch the mentality that all Hispanics are illegals here for welfare and work to convince LEGAL AMERICAN HISPANICS that they have a stake in helping to police the system.

[FITZ]

LEGAL AMERICAN HISPANICS that they have a stake in helping to police the system.

Do you know how Silvestre Reyes became well-known and elected to Congress?

[Republic of Texas]

I agree that there will always be "some" illegals getting in, but we could, if we made a committment, reduce that number substantially. By not doing that, and leaving our borders wide open, which is what we are doing now, we are, as a nation, committing suicide.

[uncbob]

What is reality is that we are going to have illegal immigration under almost any circumstances

How bout we take all the $$$$ and manpower we waste and pour down the rat hole of the insane WOD and put them to use in protecting our borders
Border may be long but there are only so many crossing points