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You may drive 80 miles per hour ever day on the freeway and break the law. I don't. You may want to believe that illegals contribute to our economy. I don't. You don't seem to have much, if any, respect for the rule of law or for our society. I have absolutely no sympathy for illegal aliens. They have no right to be here. They are invading our country, hurting our economy, disrespecting OUR culture (while they expect us to bend over backwards to try to understand THEIR culture), destroying our health care system, sometimes murdering American citizens, driving us from our homes (now WE have to emigrate to someplace else in the United States just to have a decent quality of life)...and all of this without having an ounce of respect for our country, our values and our laws. I woke up one day and there I was living right almost in the middle of "Tijuana"...seemed like it anyway. I was able to move fortunately. Many, many other people can't. If you don't see this as an unlawful and overwhelming INVASION of our country, then you must be blind.

I don't think they are invading our country - we are inviting them. Construction and agriculture and the hotel/tourist industry would be dead in the water without the labor pool. Supply and demand. We are providing the demand for cheap labor. They are supplying it.

Think about this, though: Our own citizens have not respected our own culture.

Consider all the America-hating types in colleges all over the country. They are constantly preaching the idea that America is bad, and that virtually any other culture is good.

We didn't have an illegal immigration problem a generation ago, even though plenty of Mexicans crossed the border and started living here. I think that's because of changes in our educational system that TOLD US and people coming in that our culture was no good, and we should respect Mexico's!

I think the cultural problems we are facing - and let there be no doubt that they are real problems - are largely of our own making. The only way we can fix the problem is by looking at problems of our own institutions.

It's easy to blame things on Other People, as though Others are this evil remote group. But the truth is that we've done much of this to ourselves!

If we ignore OUR problems and concentrate on closing the border, we will have a closed border, will be unable to harvest our crops or fix our cars, and we will STILL have a diseased culture, bad schools and a corrupt welfare system!

My message to everyone is that we have to fix OUR systems. It is not the immigrant's fault that our systems are broke, and we shouldn't be punishing them for our failings.

I hope this has given you an interesting perspective.

D