I noticed you mention your family came here illegaly, do you think it makes it ok? You also mention getting a green card only. Are you a citizen or not?
You may have some Pulitzer prizes but you don't know ...our...history. You state, " From the beginning of this country, people came here against the rules. That’s how the United States of America was built, since the 1600s." Anyone familar with a history book, knows this county was colonized. We didn't sneak across any border in the dead of night. People came here, learned the language and worked hard, or starved to death. They built this country for..US, their desendants to have a better life. They didn't have any rules that if you gave birth to a child here, the government saw it as a citizen and put you on welfare to stay and take care of it as now days. Don't you dare say we wrap ourselves in the flag since 9/11. It is our country and we have every right to say who comes and goes. 9/11 happened in part, because of this country's generosity and openness and look what it got us? You also try to paint all these illigals as honest hard working people. You don't know that, in fact, I would say no one knows what is crawling across our borders. For every one of these illegals, we do know, they are making it harder and harder for the Europeans who are willing to play by the rules, show all the documentation as to who they are, their past, and what they offer, to come here. There is just so much room here, or didn't you go to geography class either? And before you wrap yourself in the racist flag, let me explain that their are Spanish in Europe. You seem to put illegals rights on par with ours. We, and our ancestors, earned those rights for us, and they should not be taken away by a goodie two shoes like you.

As it was said on SNL, “George you ignorant sl*t”.(Not sure I can use that word on here)

“but rounding up and kicking out 30 million people who are mostly good people, although undocumented “illegal” aliens or whatever you want to call them, is unrealistic and wrong national policy.”

Well I want to call them “illegal” aliens. Wrong national policy? Who made you king?

“and become assimilated into our society over many years.” Not yesterday, NOT last week, NOT last year.

That’s the general problem with this country for the past few years. We’ve been inundated with “illegal” aliens. Americans are the one being assimilated.

Has anyone seen an ATM in Georgia that has instructions in Italian, German, Polish or Japanese? NO.

On that subject why is it that I have to ALWAYS tell the ATM that I want instructions in English. It’s a G. D. computer. Why haven’t the banks programmed them to figure out that after 20 times Bob has requested instructions in English maybe he would prefer that language and STOP asking him?

Since you’re too lazy to do it yourself I’ll do it for you.
The definition of “illegal” is: Prohibited by law. What part of that don’t you get?

Does anyone know who many illegal immigrant al Qaeda we have in this country? What the He!! are our young men and women in the armed forces trying to do in some GOD forsaken place right now? This war on terror is coasting the American tax payer, not the “illegal” immigrants, 10 BILLION, yes Billion, a month. And you want to grant all 30 million “illegal” immigrants of them amnesty. How many of their sons and duaghters are over there defending this country?

Do the politicians really think the American people are that stupid? The party that grants 30 “illegal” immigrants amnesty automatically get 30 million voters on their side. So now it’s just a race with real Americans as the de facto loser’s.

Archibald goes on to say, “It’s pretty stupid to believe you can force 30 million mostly good, hard-working foreign people “illegal” immigrants out of our country for no better reason than the bureaucracy and politicians and nativists want them gone.”

I say its’ Archibald who is UGLY stupid to say we shouldn’t or can’t.

Archibald continues with, “My family faced the same problem in May 1956, when we swept across the Canadian border with horseracing traffic over the Peace Bridge into Erie, New York, our household goods hidden in horse vans and trunks of five different cars as we made our way to Virginia as undocumented illegal aliens from England.
My family thankfully had help from wealthy horse owners in Virginia who made sure our paperwork got processed quickly by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and we got our green cards.

I say fine, lets start with sending your “illegal” immigrant azz back first! You obviously knew someone with enough money to BRIBE some local yahoo politician to get you a green card “illegally”! It sounds to me that the politics of immigration have been screwed since about 1956.

Just remember this, first we had the war on drugs. It became pretty clear that the politicians realized “look there is no way were gong to win this one so lets find something else to argue about, after pouring 10’s of billions into it and achieving nothing.

Now we have the war on terror. Anything look familiar?

Our brave sons, daughters, moms and dads are dieing every day for some non-winalbe war against an enemy half way across the world.
Let’s get our families back home, back together and get back to work. Everybody else, get the HE!! out!

I don't know where you got your stats, but most Americans want the borders sealed, illegals out of here and make them enter legally.

I service businesses that use a number of illegals. They do not do so because the need them due to lack of 'native' workers. They want them because they can pay them rediculously low wages.

They are illegal. They are criminals. So get off the semantics of trying to make them sound like any other immigrant, but just being given a rough time by 'nativist.'

Yea, I recognize what you are trying to do. You are trying to create a term to call all opposed you your view bigots, racists and so on.

American citizens are being harmed.

I came from farm country. They used migrant workers for work when kids where in school. They hired teens for summer jobs and migrants when their numbers were too small to do some kinds of field work.

Notice I said migrant, not immigrant? That means when their legal time expired they went home.

Now, the summer jobs are gone to the illegals. Their parents have lost jobs to the illegals.

Big business wants them? The same big buisness that is closing plants here to spend 3 billion in Mexico to open the same plants back up and get dirt cheap labor?

Do you REALLY think that if you legalize all of these they will work for the same wages? Once legal they will not demand minimum wage or wages or par with American workers?

Do you really think they will get paid those levels? Or that more illegals will not come in and cut their economic throats?

Do you really thing all these will want to stay here permanently? And those that do, are they really here to become Americans, or to set up Little Mexicos all over the place, where Spanish is the official language?

You see them flying the Mexican flag and not the US.

You and your kind are killing our nation.

Why? Because you are arrogant and see yourself above the fray of the 'commoners.' You see yourself as beyond the touch of such impacts on your overpaid positions.

No. Close the borders, punish those who hire them, take away the medical and SSI freebies they are getting and they will go home on their own.

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Keeping it real and to the core of the issue, not the peripherals.