Name: Stan

Date: 27 May 2006 18:11:31

Comment: You say your purpose is to invite people to think, but you only offer your point of view, with certain facts to "round out" your thesis. Many of your historical facts, though being true, are not relevant today. I have seen many sides of America, from being born in 1950 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, attending a high school which was entirely white
until my senior year of 1968 when we had one black girl in the sophomore class, serving in the US Navy's 6th fleet until 1973 (when I lived together with all races and classes for 4 years), to living in Northern New Jersey observing the explosion of ethnicity and immigration first hand for the last 33 years. I have seen the effects of overcrowding with little common language. I have seen young American citizens struggling to jump-start their lives, my sons included. We are seeing the effects of a flood of immigration, mostly illegal, in todays' society. In 1886, which you mentioned, our country was not being flooded with Chinese, even though some folks didn't like it. Even in 1986, we were not overwhelmed with people straining our resources. Today, there is scarcely anywhere in this country one cannot find Central or South American people. More to the point, there are places now in our country where no English can be found at all, even in local businesses. The condition of the immigrant's home countries is NOT our responsibility. Our responsibility first is to our own, then to who we can help, if needed. Just like any other country. If nothing is done, which seems to be the direction you lean, soon the entire face of our country will be changed. Imagine, if you will, our country controlled by a voting majority of Hispanics. I personally would not want to see the day. Do you really think they don't see that? I'm offering my personal opinion in saying this, but anyone who disagrees with what I've just said is an incredible idiot. I only wish I had a national audience.

Name: Susan

Date: 27 May 2006 09:01:57

Comment: It is unfortunate that there are so many people in this country illegally; however, have you ever looked at the help wanted ads anywhere in the U.S.? Even if you don't get the newspaper, all you have to do is walk around the mall! There hundreds, no thousands, of employers looking for help... And it's not just in the lettuce fields!

Many U.S. citizens want to work, sure, they want to work they want $50 an hour with benefits and a 3 day work week.  Oh, and they don't want to be required to have any sort of experience, training or education. Even High School students are too good for entry level positions these days! Does anyone even remember what it was like to work your way up in a company?

It is easier for most to go DES and get a check and stay home and watch Oprah!  And DES will tell a person who comes in for a little help "We want to help you but you make too much money, if you quit your job we can do this and this and this for you".  Don’t believe it?  Go in and ask to get a little supplemental help if you have a job... 

For many illegal workers, they came into this country legally but with the difficult amount of paperwork it takes to continue or receive even the simplest work documents they stay a little longer and a little longer to support their families because there are so many jobs here.  I'm not saying that breaking the law is ok, these illegals are stretching our already stretched school and hospital system but think about it, a do-over isn't unheard of in this country, how many of you have ever been given a warning by a police officer even though he knew you were
speeding or running a stop sign, etc?

In my opinion, the U.S. needs to 1) re-vamp the welfare system so able-body people can get out there and get a job and get off my tax dollars 2) Make it possible for those non-U.S. people who have a sponsor for a legitimate job get the proper paperwork to contribute to society. and 3)  Go after those legal and illegal who are leeching of the system. 

Finally, to say that there is an easy answer to this is ignorant.  It is mostly because of the laziness of our own citizens our country has become dependant on people from other countries to fill the gaps. 

In the past the American dream was available for all those who cared to work for it they just needed to come and someone would help them get on there feet! Now calling or visiting your local immigration center is like going to the IRS, no one knows and every answer you receive is different from the last person you talked to.

I wonder what would have happened if our founding fathers or even someone like Albert Einstein had all this trouble with red tape of paperwork and never had a chance to experience America.

Name: Peter

Date: 1 May 2006 22:22:25

Comment: Dear Henryk, Please keep up the good work! Peter

Migration to the Future. Great article! Objective, analytical and to the point. 

Politicians PLEASE do not SCREW IT UP.

Name: William

Date: 28 May 2006 08:09:58 

Comment: I understand that this country is made up of immigrants. But people fail to understand that the people that came here back when, came legally. They waited in line. Did not sneak in. These illegals now a day, besides coming in illegaly demand to have rights. What other country in the world do ilegals go in and demand  equal rights? What other country in the world accepts ilegals to demonstrate using their country flags? And the idea that these people do work that the average american would not do, does not fly. For I see a lot of average americans digging holes, dumping garbage and other medial jobs that people claim only ilegas would do. If companies would pay better, believe you me, more americans would do those jobs. Today's prison population is 29 percent ilegals. Does anyone see that? And who is paying for this outrageous situation? The average working american. Iam for immigration,  but the legal way.People should be given the chance, but I would have more respect and consideration for them, if they would come in to the country the right and legal way. Not by sneaking in, and then demanding "rights" Is like one of them, coming into your house, without being invited and demanding to stay, and enjoy everything that you have worked so hard for. Iam very critical of the federal government, for is them whom are to be blamed for the mess that we are in today. The main job of the federal government is to protect our borders, and yet they have failed so
badly and shameful. The federal government has gotten into every aspect of our lives, yet, what the constitution says they should do, they have not done so. I voted for Bush, and Iam dissapointed with him but, I guess I voted for the less of two evils. Iam a republican all the way, and I hate to think what would had happened if the democrats were in power today. Wow I get kind of nervous just to think about it. I believe the situation can be resolved by fining the employers who hire ilegals. This way, if they cannot find jobs they will return to their country and file to come back ligaly. I am puerto rican, and the same situation exists in Puerto Rico. Many dominicans and people from other latin american countries and from the caribbean have snucked into Puerto Rico, and taken over jobs for low pay.But being that is Puerto Rico, many people do not here about it. The federal government has also failed to protect the coast of Puerto Rico, as they have failed to protect the ones on the main land. All in name of the "mighty vote"

Name: Hernan

Date: 28 May 2006 15:10:44

Comment: Mostly, don't support illegal immigration nor I advocate for those aliens braking the laws. Those who knowingly brake the laws are delinquents. They will keep that behavior or it will get worse -if the society doesn't enforce the laws- Law trespassers that are getting away easily, will keep trespassing other rules and conventions. But, on the other hand, U.S. immigration laws are encouraging or forcing many people to brake the law.Let's look the case of Mexicans crossing the border. I believe this is not an issue related with general immigration policies -as every party want us to believe- but a specific political and bilateral problem. First, Mexicans don't believe in the border. They don't even believe the United States has nothing to do in those territories. For most of them, Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada are rightfully Mexican territories given to the United States by corrupted governments. Mexicans don't migrate to other countries nor they have strong clusters outside the Western States. Second, Mexicans don't want nor they have an immigration policy towards people from Honduras, Guatemala or other countries in the region. It's easier for them to grant relatively secure and expedite pass for that people into the United States, transferring the problem and the burden associated with them. Recently threats by the Mexican government of lawsuits against border patrol measures only contribute to this theory. Not to mention that the U.S. government -backed by Corporate America- also confirms they are acting only for the polls and votes. They don't protest nor they answer those unacceptable statements from a foreign government, deliberately interfering with domestic affairs. An "amnesty" -with whatever name they want to rename- will send an utterly wrong signal. Those braking the laws get a prize while those abiding by the law will remain for years trapped in the bureaucracy of the immigration services. We have to separate the above mention individuals from the rest. They are not terrorists, they are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens with their own agenda. A program that has nothing to do with the American dream, the values of freedom, etc. But politics will placed them in front of us, the legal stream, those who respect the laws and abide by them. But I agree with you, most of immigrants in the U.S. are the best people the world can offer. We came here looking for opportunities and to realize our dreams. Either we developed a clear policy towards legal immigration or we continue encouraging illegal status.

Name: Dave

Date: 3 Jun 2006 19:12:02

Comment: If your not legal leave. And stop saying it's going to be a TAKE OVER. No problem if you abide by the rules when coming over and learn the language have all the right papers etc. It's all this rebal rousing and "we're taking over" crap that gets people ralled up. If you were in our place how would like us to illlegally invade your country and sap your social services to the point Mexico has done to us? And the more ill legales arrive here the lower the systems will get and it will begin to hurt even those folks.And most of all "you are Not AMERICA until you learn and use English and take the Oath"

Name: John

Date: 16 Jun 2006 22:53:00 

Comment: Henryk, may your Web site become a magnet for at least one third of of the potential worldwide market. Your evaluation on the components you selecting to build is outstanding, and are interesting in combination with up-to-the-minute gauge of how they're doing with handling the actual admissions. There will always be someone reengineering the process with great spirits and will encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds. You are deeply concerned with the social impact in a monumental intellectual influential modern era. Your awe for the scheme that is manifested in these and other issues is grandeur, but without treating and serving all who come to site, it feels more like an assembly line, No matter how good and consistent the experience is, you aren't as
likely to get many loyal and devoted reads. No matter how well you orchestrate the experience you don't want to emasculate them in the process. So your simple views should follow directly into the system instead of filling it with generic answers. The real issue is all about making choices quickly based on availability and automated processes. But then we need to realize who really has control here? The customer. Let the customers help other customers solve their problems. You wont be ready to foster community among customers until you've built a high level
of trust with each of them individually. I hope you continuously improve their experience of doing business with you. It may lead to a community.

Name: Bartolome

Date: 3 Jun 2006 23:46:41

Comment: I like your ideas expressed in this article.  Building a fence or a wall like that of the Berlin Wall does nothing good for both countries, Mesico and the United States.  Enformcement of our present immigration laws within and out is good way to curve illegal entry.  Let all people of different race, religion, etc come here legally provided they are able to find a job and support themselves while they are here. Nurses, for example, are needed and the Philippines has plenty of nurses who like to come here but the requirements are so strict that only a
few are able to qualify.  Also U.S. embassies thoughout the world are very drastic in denying visas of all kinds to prospective immigrants. If anyone who is able to provide themselves support while they are here looking for a job, maybe a relative or a friend, it would be easier for everybody. No law will be broken. Employers should be required to notify the immigration of the expration of a contract between employee and employer.  A good employe can always come back and apply for another opening.

Name: Craig

Date: 7 Jun 2006 19:53:19 

Comment: My great grandmother was a full blood Cherokee Indian. My mothers parents came here from Poland circa 1900. My dad is english irish cherokee etc. We all came from somewhere but legally is different from illegally. My wife is German from Germany. She and I had to wait 1 yr to legally have her come here and marry me. She could not get on a plane in Germany to fly to US until the paperwork went through. It is not right for someone to merely step across our border and have a baby US citizen no less with all the rights of same. Please keep the US the US I was born into in 1951. God help us all if not..

Name: Juan

Date: 19 Jun 2006 17:50:26

Comment: I understand why most of the american people do not like the idea of an amnesty, but belive me, illegal immigrants come that way, because it does not exist a way to make it legal, the last was 20 years ago, since then the goverment did not create a path to come legally, and by the way these people do not look for citizenship, they only want legal residence {green cards. Some later will look for citizenship. Plus they pay taxes when they buy groceries and goods, pay licenses plates, city stickers and fill up tax forms using itin numbers giving for the federal
goverment, and when they get paid with checks, the social security, state and federal taxes take their parts and do not forget the union fees, so lets see both sides of this and be fair. Thank you.

Name: Terry

Date: 22 Jun 2006 14:55:33   

Comment: On the immigration issue, you have done your best to debunk the real truth of the matter.  It sounds to me like all your concerned with is having taxpaying working citizens to fuel the Economy, whoever they might be.  My point is this.  I don't favor flooding America with tens of millions of Latinos, whether they be drug-dealers, vagrants or licensed Professionals and business owners.  Most of the present American Citizens do not wish to live in a Latino Dominated Country, no matter what the conditions are.  Get it.  You are just one more voice of many that find a lot of convincing reasons to ruin our country and "feel good" about it. You say let the Free Market govern Immigration. Are you insane?  What if the Free Market says we need to flood our beautiful country with third (turd) World Citizens from Central America, Africa, and Asia?  Do you really want to live with a bunch of gooks?  You have got to be a liberal.

Name: Greg

Date: 19 Jun 2006 20:27:21  

Comment: Henryk, you are a very smart person and I agree with your points presented here. You seem to have a workable solution to the "immigration crisis" I wish your voice is heard by american public and that
stupid "Sencenbrenner" shit just go away. They say that senate bill will cost us 50 or whatever billion dollars but interesting enough that nobody mentions how much deportation proceedings will cost (i think it will top war expences). And to deport all people - we will have to turn this country into police state - look how these bitches whine  about wire tapping and i just can't imagine what is to come if mass deportation is the chosen path.well, let's hope there are more people like you with common sence who can solve this issue in a normal and civilized manner.
Thank you for your work.

Name: Beatriz

Date: 20 Jun 2006 18:44:39   

Comment: Just to say that I really loved your article. You seem to be very well informed about the issue. Congratulations!

Name: Avon

Date: 20 Jun 2006 15:31:21  

Comment: You are so dumb. You obviously are an illegal hiding behind another name. GO back to where you belong. America can survive with the LEGAL citizens it already has. And don't whine to me that my ancesters
were immigrants. I'm NATIVE AMERICAN. MINE WERE HERE BEFORE YOU AND YOURS BARGED IN.

Name: Ralph

Date: 20 Jun 2006 15:50:46   

Comment: If not for the draft, we would still be in Viet Nam.  Having an all-volunteer army and the fact that congress has abdicated its duty to be the only body authorized to declare war, gives the president his private war machine to do with it as his dreams of power chooses. If, as he says, this will be a long and hard war, then reinstate the draft
and give everyone a piece of the burden.  No more buying the poor guys to go and die for the chance of college tuition, etc.  Let the burden fall on most families, including those of those of the draft-dodgers in Washington.  This would limit our wars to only those which most everyone would be willing to support.  The war in Iraq would be over
immediately and it would end those wars which we get into by lies, by those who will bear none of the burdens.

Name: Shem

Date: 23 Jun 2006 12:22:33    

Comment: 1 .they people should first have criminal     back checks before entering 2.they should have a full medical exam sent there lot of health issue and they handle lots food we dont need epedimics they should have proper shots tested avian flu heptitist aid etc.3 just what there educational qualification 4.they shouldcome    through the front
door and not sneak in if they do they are criminal like everyone else who committe a illegal act anyone hiring them is acriminal also it a ederal offense also not paying taxes federal rackteering

Name: Jeff

Date: 25 Jun 2006 06:59:58   

Comment: Illegal immigration is like illegal drugs.  It is illegal and we have an addition to it.The fix is to STOP. Cold Turkey. Secure the borders. There will be pain and adjustment for the users and beneficiaries of illegal immigration and they need to pay the price. The illegal immigration is corrupting the social and economic and health of the nation.  It is sick!

Name: Harry

Date: 26 Jun 2006 16:42:57   

Comment: You have reach an illogical conclusion that the influx of foreign workers would be good for the American people. You leave out the fact that they will work for less and will subsequently cause a decrease in wages , a loss of employment and a large raise in welfare type money payments. How can this be good for this country?

Name: Clayton

Date: 26 Jun 2006 00:51:07  

Comment: please stop criticing the imigration law....everyone deserves a chance....what if you were to look for an oportunity in another country....because of family issue or personal problems...other countries would welcome you.....but let's be realistics...you don't know how families struggles just to keep food in the table...and how many thousands innocent children have died in the border.....or how many children have lost their parents and perished in the border and never to be found again...you are too a son of a family also you are a brother of your family...you also have children....you also have a wife, a mom and a dad...imagine how hard it is ...if you lost them all in a blink of an
eye?.....well you guessed right...so let's be realistic and deal with this matter...after all these are people who have stayed in the country for a long time...and do not have their family.

Name: 1patriot

Date: 26 Jun 2006 17:32:46   

Comment: hey fellow patriot. i belong to a couple of organizations that are active in fighting illegal immigration. saveourstate, minutemen. we are having a rally/march on july 8th at hollywood blvd. ca. we need all the support, publicity we can get. it would do us all a great service if you could post this information on your web site. you can find more information if you go to saveourstate.org

Name: Tang

Date: 27 Jun 2006 10:20:25 

Comment: I would like to personally contact you to suggest the victorious way for neutralizing finally similar Haditha and Hamdaniya in Iraq (like My Lai in Viet-Nam); for not only reining and curbing definitively the ongoing skyrocketed clockwork death and ransom in Iraqi dire labyrinth, but also the recent spasm of sectarian violence "free-for-all" in the world of Islam; for overwhelming completely the nuclear proliferation Iran as well as in North Korea, without more wet bloodshed, worrying the United Nations or any superpower nation.

Name: Randy

Date: 28 Jun 2006 22:45:17   

Comment: HUH?? Bush has his kids join the military??  I thought it was VOLUNTARY?? Do not join if you do not want to join the WAR against terrorism.. Look at the bigger picture... Stop living in you own little world and join REALITY!!

Name: GERRI

Date: 26 Jun 2006 16:42:57   

Comment: I am completely disgusted with the way, our beautiful America, is looked upon, because of the serious direction, it is going. Europe laughs at us.  We are in terrible debt.  We are losing precious lives in Iraq.  I have had enough.  Everyone I speak to, feels the same way. The famous question is, who voted for Mr. Bush.  CERTAINLY NOT I.

Name: Bob

Date: 29 Jun 2006 08:41:45

Comment: In one of your printed responses you say that you write to get the reader to think rather than to force your opinion on others. However, in reader your many quotes hear, I find the truth to be something different.  Like so many political writers now, your negativity is boring at best.

Name: John

Date: 29 Jun 2006 09:27:40  

Comment: I fail to see, from what I've read so far on this site, how Bush twins' deployment to the front lines of Iraq would automatically lead to their parents' subsequent opposition of the war.  I can think of countless cases of friends and family members who have been deployed to Iraq whose pro-war parents continued to staunchly support the military effort.

Name: Jeanne

Date: 29 Jun 2006 13:01:18

Comment: SMALL TOWN TEXAS IS ANOTHER VICTIM OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! WHERE DOES IT STOP!
Teenage Attack Victim “Very Fortunate To Be A Survivor,” Sheriff Says Two Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Brutal Attack On Central Texas Teenager.
(June 29, 2006)—A teenage girl who was forced off a rural road by two men who beat, raped and stabbed her and left her to die in a roadside ditch is “very very fortunate to be a survivor,” Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said Thursday. Wilson said two illegal immigrants have been arrested in connection with the brutal attack.

Name: Timothy

Date: 30 Jun 2006 21:08:32  

Comment: Henryk, what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul? If we want peace, we must pursue justice.  There's a better way. It's called a Capital Homestead for every man, woman, and child. 
www.cesj.org.  Consider us.

Name: Myra

Date: 1 Jul 2006 03:51:29  

Comment: I KNOW THIS IS LONG, BUT I WADED THROUGH YOUR WORDS, PLEASE AFFORD ME THE SAME COURTESY.
THE PAST MANY DECADES HAVE SEE FREE ENTERPRISE CROSSING OUR BOARDERS. WHAT HAS COME OVER FROM THE SOUTH BORDER HAS BEEN FULL OF POOR, DESPERATE PEOPLE NEEDING OPPORTUNITY...SURELY YOU KNOW THAT MOST HIGH PAYING, FAST OPPORTUNITY FOR THE POOR INVOLVES ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES/PRODUCTS. FREE ENTERPRISE WORKS WHEN THERE ARE ENFORCED LAWS WITH CHECKS AND BALANCES. MEXICO HAS HAD HUNDREDS, YES HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF CORRUPTION. THEY CAN'T SEEM TO GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. WHY SHOULD AMERICA KEEP ENABLING THEM TO BE CO-DEPENDENT, DID WE ADOPT THEM? THERE IS AN OLD SAYING ABOUT
"BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU" YOU MIGHT JUST APPLY THAT TO THIS SITUATION. WE HAVE THE HISPANIC PROBLEM TO THANK FOR THE GREATER PROPLEMS OF: HUMAN SMUGGLING, DRUGS, PROSTITUTION, WELFAIR FRAUD, ARTIFICIALLY SUPPRESSING MINIMUM WAGE FOR DECADES, HIGH CRIME, HIGHER INCIDENCE OF VIOLENT CRIMES, AND CHILD PREDITOR CRIMES ON THE INCREASE. ADDITONALLY, OUR PRISONS ARE BULGING, SOME HOSPITALS ARE HAVING TO CLOSE THE ER FUNCTIONS. THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM IS BARELY IN THE BLACK, POLICE AND
SOCIAL SERVICES ARE BARELY KEEPING FROM DROWNING IN THE CRUSH OF CASES BOTH VICTIMS AND GANGS...MANY OF WHICH ARE HISPANIC! I DON'T SEE WHERE "FREE ENTERPRISE", WITHOUT FILTERING OUT THE UNDESIRABLE CRIMINALS AND THEIR PRODUCTS/BUSINESSES/CRIMES IS EVER GOING TO STOP INCREASING UNLESS WE SHUT THE DOOR AND START PROTECTING OUR NATIONS
SOIL FROM ASSAULT FROM WITHIN. THIS ISN'T A RELIGIOUS PROBLEM, IT ISN'T A DISCRIMINATION PROBLEM, IT ISN'T EVEN A RACIAL PROBLEM. IT IS A BASIC CIVILITY COUPLED WITH LAWS OF THE LAND TO PROTECT AND GROW SOCIETY IN A CONSTRUCTIVE AND SAFE
DIRECTION. WITHOUT IT, WE CAN'T MOVE THIS NATION FORWARD FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE, MUCH LESS GENERATIONS TO COME.  THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN BREWING FOR MOST OF MY LIFE, I WILL NEVER, YES NEVER SUPPORT AMNESTY, AMERICANS WILL DO THE SAME WORK THAT ILLEGALS ARE NOW DOING, BUT NOT AT THE ARTIFICIALLY DEFLATED WAGES OFFERED.  IF YOU THINK OF THE PEOPLES WHO HAVE POPULATED NORTH AMERICA AS A BIG FAMILY AND THEN SEE THAT SOME OF THOSE FAMILY HAVE BEEN IRRESPONSIBLE ABOUT KEEPING CRIME DOWN THEREBY ALLOWING
CORRUPTION TO KEEP THEM IN POVERTY, WELL, WHY SHOULD THE OTHERS FEED, HOUSE AND PAY FOR THEIR EXISTANCE. YOU WOULDN'T ALLOW THAT BEHAVIOR OF LAZY TEENS WHO LINGER AROUND THE THE HOUSE AND GROW INTO THEIR 20'S TO MOOCH OFF THEIR PARENTS AND NEVER TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN! CIRCUMSTANCES, SO WHY SHOULD THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DO THE SAME FOR THE HISPANICS, WHO JUST CAN'T STAY IN THEIR OWN TURF AND FIGHT TO HAVE A FAIR GOVERNMENT.  ADDITONALLY, IF THEY WILL RUN FROM THE ADVERSITY IN THEIR OWN COUNTY, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU WANT THEM IN A TRENCH WITH US WHEN THE GOING GETS TUFF.  HECK, THEY LEAVE THERE JOBS HERE IN TEXAS WITH NO NOTICE WHAT SO EVER TO THE EMPLOYER... THEY GO BACK HOME TO VISIT THEIR FAMILIES FOR MONTHS AT A TIME. THIS HAS BEEN A COMMON PRACTICE FOR A LONG TIME.  I DON'T THINK THE HISPANICS AS A WHOLE WANT TO BE AMERICANS, THEY JUST WANT THE LIFE STYLE, EXISTING GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS AND THE FREEDOM TO HAVE THEIR ALL IMPORTANT VERY LARGE FAMILIES.. WHICH
THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO FEED. IN THIS COUNTRY... FOR DECADES WE HAVE HAD PLANNED PARENTHOOD BECAUSE OF SO MANY UNWANTED BIRTHS TO PARENTS WHO CAN'T OR WON'T CARE FOR THEIR OFFSPRING. JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS CATHOLIC, DOES NOT EXEMPT THEM FROM CARING PROPERLY FOR THEIR OWN CHILDREN! WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT DOES TO FREE ENTERPRISE?  JUST THINK OF WHAT OVERPOPULATION HAS DONE TO SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY. BESIDES HUNGER, THERE IS DISEASE, ABUSE, PROSTITUTION, ALL OF WHICH PAVE THE WAY FOR
AND ESCALATE THE POWER OF PURE EVIL ACTS IN THE FORM OF CRIME. WHEN THE GOING GETS TUFF, MOST AMERICANS FIND THEIR BACKBONES AND GET TO WORK TO FIX THINGS, HISPANICS JUST BECOME MORE MIGRATORY, MOVING OVER... TO ALLOW CRIME TO GROW AND SPREAD. THAT ISN'T TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK, THAT IS TURNING TAIL AND RUNNING. REMEMBER, WE ONLY HAVE TWO CHEEKS TO TURN ANYWAY...AFTER THAT YOU JUST BECOME A WILLING VICTIM.
LASTLY, WHAT MAKES ANYONE THINK THAT IF HISPANICS COME HERE TO LIVE AND GET ALL THE THINGS THEY WANT TO "MAKE THEM FEEL COMFORTABLE AND AT HOME", THAT THE SAME PROBLEMS THEY LEFT WON'T BE DUPLICATED HERE. I REMIND YOU WE NOW HAVE A GROWNING POPULATION OF VERY VIOLENT GANGS HERE IN THE CITIES MOST POPULATED WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS... FROM THE HISPANIC CULTURE. IT ISN'T WHERE YOU LIVE, IT IS HOW YOU LIVE AND STARTS WITH WHAT STANDARDS YOU SET FOR CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR. AMERICAS STANDARDS HAVE BEEN
ALLOWED TO DILUTE, BUT THE POPULATION AS A WHOLE IS NOW TAKING A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE ABUSE WHICH HAS HAPPENED WHILE WE HAVE BEEN SLACK WITH OUR BORDER WITH MEXICO. I BELIVED YOU ARE MISTAKEN IF YOU THINK THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS GOING TO LAY DOWN LONG TERM,AND TAKE THIS FROM ANYBODY. EX: OBL, VINCENTE FOX, CASTRO...THE LIST IS ENDLESS.  I AM NOT ANGRY, NOT EVEN IRRITATED, BUT I AM RESOLVED IN MY BELIEFS AND ACTIONS TO PROTECT OUR SOIL FROM THE INVASION ASSAULT OF ILLEGALS AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS ON OUR WAY OF LIFE.

Name: KR

Date: 9 Aug 2006 06:00:22        

Comment: I believe everyone should be given a chance in this world... We live in a better country, not all of these people are as lucky to live in this better country like us.They pay their share to get legalize to live here. Life is not fair, but like for example a single person like me with no kids...I work hard for my money and I get taxed like crazy... for what!!! So some of these lazy ass Americans can be living off of welfare!! Basically the government is telling me.. HEY IN ORDER FOR YOU TO GET ALL YOUR HARD WORKING MONEY BACK YOU HAVE TO POP SOME KIDS OUT!! Yeah right, be real... and I think we as a country should be fair with those who come to make a living...

Name: Keith

Date: 2 Jul 2006 06:36:24    

Comment: You are the most pseudo intellectual of all time.  You use the freedoms guaranteed to you by this nation to mock freedom.  How about saying thanks once in a while to those who guarantee you the right to
stay safe and to enjoy the life you lead. Say thanks to a policeman, fireman, or soldier instead of using your vituperative commentary to degrade everything.

Name: Kevin

Date: 1 Jul 2006 10:05:29   

Comment: what exactly is the connection with the stocks and profit gain from this company that is claimed to be in association with bush chaney a company that deals in armor, weapons, and tactical operations if this is true it is also true if u dont use it u loose it so make up for the lost by causing a war or a stupid reason to bury some of the
population and take away the worlds money and put in your own pocket. by the way my brother is now active on the front lines in iraq and my wife is active army and could be deployed at anytime.

Name: Terry

Date: 7 Jul 2006 06:24:46       

Comment: more than 4000 illegal aliens will walk across border between Arizona and Mexico with no searches for weapons. ID checks. Soon millions many will obtain phony identification papers, including bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and mask their criminal record and presence. do you support this invasion? Hear About = A popular search engine Comments = Do we want to solve the problem? or play word games? common sense: 1)Close the borders. 2)Impose severe sanctions against employers of illegals. 3)Cut off all the freebies, and the illegals will all go home. next question do you want a receipe for ruining a nation? Flood it with tens of millions of poor third world immigrants that don't speak your language, but will need billions of dollars of social services and medical care for epidemic diseases. Then let the leftwing justify the invasion with their "bleeding heart compassion for poor alien immigrants".

Name: Carol

Date: 5 Jul 2006 09:46:33      

Comment: I trully wish that these Congress persons and Senators would stop being politically correct and SECURE OUR Own Borders and protect our Sovereignty as a nation. Most of these Illegal Aliens are just that and take advantage of the system, promote and abuse Identity theft, financial fraud, stealing college and high school information and by obtaining employment using other people's identifying information, from old employment, school or public records.
They have chosen to break all of our laws and are Criminals and should be charged as Criminals.  Those who hide and support them should also be charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and close businesses that hire them.
Americans are being forced to take lower paying jobs with less benefits because of them.  Many times American's Civil Rights are being violated because of Illegal Aliens on the job.  This is an invasion and a travesty of justice, under the irrevokable United States Constitution.  Most people don't realize they are being supported by abborent polygamist groups and misguided clergy.
Everybody should start putting two and two together.  Go to Virginia Watchdog and see some of that bad news.  Start reporting them to Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration or The Postal Inspectors.  Our National Security is in jeopardy as is our own futures and productivity.

Name: George

Date: 8 Jul 2006 17:31:47    

Comment: It makes little sense to adopt 10-20 million poor when we already have millions of poor who are citizens.  Amnestied illegal aliens and their families would have yearly incomes below the poverty level. They would pay no revenue into the Treasury, as they would get every dollar back.  Money required to pay for our defense, social services and government infrastructure would have to be made up for in tax increases or by adding to the national debt. Adopting Mexican illegal aliens sets a bad precidence in law, giving special consideration for foreign nationals who have shown blatant disrespect for this country's laws by entering this country illegally and perpetrating identity fraud and colluding in forgery, the last two being felonies. These people aren't deserving of respect and should be
disemployed and deported. Frankly, I don't care about your other arguments, and the rest of the citizens of this country who respect rule of law don't care either. Your purely capitalist argument will not sway the 60% of Americans who share my views.

Name: Mike

Date: 7 Jul 2006 08:46:08    

Comment: US Government should honor all of the "half bake" immigrant or asylum/refugee/removal/deportation person that still in process at local immigration office or federal court for they shows their intention to become part of this beautiful country. With exception for ones with criminal record shouldn't have this privilage.
Let them proved that they are part of the community by participating to local organization that served community like churches, etc. And if they are well accepted and could mingle with others then they are part of the community and truly shows their good will to become part of this land.
Once the immigration office is cought up, then they are ready to work on guest worker or illegal immigrant registration if the Senate immgiration bill is approved.

Name: Bernadetta

Date: 17 Jul 2006 09:40:18       

Comment: I have to say I was impressed with your insight!  In addition, you offer solutions where most people do is complain and state the obvious.  I am an immigrant myself and believe that what you propose will sort out our "problem."  My parents worked very hard and I, myself, at 27 have accomplished a lot more than my "American colleges" who had many more opportunities than I ever did.  It all comes down to WORK - very true!  Every time I got a promotion it wasn't because I'm "free loading" on American people's taxes (I pay taxes too).  It's because I worked since I was 14 (while my parents pulled 3 jobs).  After High School I worked full time to pay for my schooling (avoiding debt) and going to school full time.  It's true - if we approaches the problem with a "work solution"  it will quickly eliminate those who want to be here and those who don't. The American economy is Capitalism!  It is survival of the fittest (not food stamps)!

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

I'm reading some of these comments and it's sick!   A lot of these people keep complaining that immigrants are getting "freebies" while they can't even "get grants for school (solution Carol is to focus on how to get the money not how to get someone to pay for YOU!" Hello???  Immigrants are NOT the ones getting "these special government
treatments!"  It IS the American Citizen who is too "disabled too work," "has too many illegitimate children," "drives a Benz but buys food with food stamps," and "who is LAZY!"  We have just as many opportunities as an
immigrant -You should always be a step ahead of an immigrant.  It sucks when you find that the immigrant just built a bigger house than yours or that your renting from one.  THINK PEOPLE!  Stop looking and pointing fingers.  Nothing is free in American especially for immigrants.

Name: butcf

Date: 17 Jul 2006 22:33:26       

Comment: people from other countries come to america and became illegal immigrants or undocumented workers just because in their own country there is no opportunity! they come to america to have a better life.these people are just hungry.and are here searching for a better lives....it is not a criminal offense!
AMERICA is built on immigrants! AMERICA NEEDS IMMIGRANTS!!!!!!!!

Name: Chris

Date: 15 Jul 2006 19:07:25      

Comment: Most americans have it made. Sure, everyone has problems. But for the most part, we live a great lifestyle. I love america just the way it is. Most americans are used to living among other whites and sometimes alittle bit of blacks. Now forced to live with hispanics, people can't handle it. They are just people trying to survive, which is why they are here. To the evil and hateful comments YOU decide to post, ask yourself this: What would you do if if the united states went through another depression but CANADA was thriving and you knew you could get a job there to send money home? That's what I thought. Please post this, people need to see things from a humankind perspective.

Name: Carol

Date: 9 Jul 2006 12:25:26     

Comment: Illegical imigration simply stated is illegal. I am an American who can't even get grants with furthering my education. On the other hand, an illegal can obtain a free education. Near my home town a free health clinic was opened for illegals. I and my fellow Americans, in the meantime, have to pay for my medical insurance. If we don't have medical coverage and aren't eligible for Federal or State assistance like the illegals in our country, we then are prosecuted for the medical bills we owe, and have a lifetime of debt. I am so frustrated with the illegals whom beleive we fellow Americans owe them free rents, free medical coverage, free this, free that. And I am personally more frustrated with the leaders of our country who have allowed this to happen.

Name: Daniel

Date: 8 Jul 2006 20:06:38     

Comment: I have read your debate over at Alipac's website. I have to tell you that you are a great debater, but even the best cannot reason with idiots. I am an ilegal immigrant myself. I came to the us when i was 11 years old. Now I find myself a victim of the broken system. I am a Master's student in Molecular and Cell Biology, and I am following very closely the immigration debate and senate/house proposed solutions. I am sure that you have heard of the Dream Act, which is the main focus of our website/organization. I invite you to come over and discuss with us. I have read some of your writing, and altough not entirely, I agree with many of your points. Please visit us at Cosaonline.org

Name: El Hefe Grande

Date: 18 Jul 2006 08:33:25      

Comment: You're a victim of convoluted thinking and writing.  Please learn how to do both correctly.

Name: Kiryl

Date: 25 Jul 2006 14:15:42   

Comment: Very well thought points on this site. Would be great if senate and house could be as smart.
keep on going.

Name: Mary

Date: 25 Jul 2006 16:48:09  

Comment: If you had a child who was half immigrant half U.S. citizen you wouldn't be protesting that family sponsored paths to citizenship be terminated! That's the problem with this country is that no one can put himself in EVERYONE's shoes. I am a full-time mom with a son and my husband supports us, he is not hurting anyone and he pays his taxes! Grow up and get a better plan, and just think if your own kid were getting screwed up by this country's failure to think about the situations of all Americans, not just the over-privileged ones who don't know what
it's like to struggle and to be forced to make desperate decisions!

Name: James

Date: 23 Jul 2006 15:13:56      

Comment: First off, I applaud Derek for bringing up overpopulation. This has been one of the biggest problems in human society for decades. The only way to solve this problem with illegal aliens is to start enforcing Sec. 274A. [8 U.S.C. 1324a] (look it up).  This would remove the incentive which draws the vast majority of illegals here.  There is
nothing wrong with the laws we have.  It's just that they need to be enforced in order to work.

Name: John

Date: 19 Jul 2006 15:38:09      

Comment: I can't believe how you mock this nation!  I clicked on your sight from your opponents website citizensforasecureborder.com Glad you like low lifes living off of our hard earned tax dollars. You obvoiously are not at all concerned about our children's and grandchildrens futures!  I can't believe anyone is even taking your "logic
seriously"  I say build that damn wall.  Build it tall and strong.  You Mr. K are Crazy.

Name: Carlos

Date: 24 Jul 2006 05:26:44      

Comment: I ask you , are illegal immigrants above the law in this country?
These illegal immigrants are nothing but out right felons and criminals and should be treated as such, and not treated as heroes and given the reward of citizenship or any other form of legal status in this country.
I ask you, what kind of country do we have here when people who knowingly and willfully break and abuse our laws on a regular day to day basis, as illegal immigrants do, and then we want to reward them with the gift of citizenship and treat them like heroes. What to hell kind of country is this?
You all know very well that the majority of illegal immigrants knowingly and willfully forge documents like driver's licenses, social security cards, birth certificates and other forms of legal documents to benefit their own self interests. They knowingly and willfully steal the identities of other people for their own selfish gains, and they  knowingly and willfully use these forged documents and stolen identities to fraud city, state and federal agencies out of social services. And last but not least, they knowingly and willfully evade paying taxes. 
Now I ask you,,,,if you or I (American citizens) were caught with these same type of forged documents and stolen identities, and if you or I knowingly evaded paying our taxes, and lied to government agencies in order to obtain social services. What do you think would happen to us? You know very well what would happen to us, we would be prosecuted as felons and would be end up spending time in federal prison.
Now what will happen to all these illegal immigrants who do this fraudulent activity on a regular day to day basis, if this amnesty bill passes? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!  All these people will be given the reward of citizenship for their crimes. What kind of mockery is this to all the law abiding people in this country.  I ask you , are illegal immigrants
above the law in this country? ARE THEY?

Name: Paul

Date: 23 Jul 2006 16:35:26      

Comment: I understand that you are against spending more government money to control immigration.  Your solution however has way too many loop holes.  The first thing is who is going to enforce illegal immigrants to go to an employment agency and pay a processing fee to get legal work.  Who is going to punish the employers who hire illegal immigrants who didn't go and register at the employment agency.  How is America going to get back all of the money that is sent to their families back in Mexico.  Will we be able to tax under the table payments and money
exported from our country.  What do we do about the language barriers do we have to learn to speak Spanish because they don't want to speak English.  What happens to the illegal who doesn't find work and manages to
make it for five years.  Does he get social services aid without ever having to hold a job.  Proving you were somewhere for five years isn't hard.  You just let a friend use your name on his power bill and stay in Mexico until 5 years is up.  Then he can come over here and say hey I've been here 5 years give me my citizenship and tell the taxpayers to give me money so I can send it back to Mexico tax free.  Sure this would reduce the government spending on immigration enforcement but it would sky rocket the spending on social services and diminish the amount of tax money going back into it.  I believe it would cause a collapse of the social service system and run us into another great depression.  Then would the illegal immigrants stay or would they go back to their country who has been receiving imported funds from the American people. Will their country let us over there when this happens because all of the jobs here have had lay offs and cut backs or would they enforce immigration laws against us.  I think your system would eliminate illegal immigration in about 50 yrs when we go bankrupt but I think it would for
the most part cause a reversal of roles and will you fight for us over there when your home has been devastated from depression or will you decide then its a good time to keep your mouth shut because your first idea screwed up the last country you were in.  I guess what I'm saying is shut up. 

Name: Derek

Date: 22 Jul 2006 17:48:04     

Comment: Yes, there is a lot of reason in your writing, considerably more than I have ever seen on websites dedicated to immigration problems. There is however one aspect, that many people will find at least controversial. Opening up immigration is certainly good for economy and would stimulate wealth grow for almost everyone, but you do not take under consideration that its positive effects would be seriously affected by negative effects of overpopulation. Overpopulation can drastically reduce quality of life, even in relatively rich populations. Would you enjoy living in Japan for example? There is no such thing like a solitude hiking trail there. I guess finding a place for a picnic would be a serious problem in Japan. As an illegal by myself, I would love to see your point of view to be
implemented into any immigration bill. I am just trying to stay objective. And one more thing. Americans do not realize, that quite a lot of illegal aliens are actually quite well educated, esp. those from Europe. Many of them are migrating (legally) to Canada hoping to find there a job, which would pay them adequately to their experience and BSc or MSc degree. Most are dissapointed. I have met some that crossed the border again and are working here on construction sites like they did before.

Name: mike

Date: 18 Jul 2006 16:38:47     

Comment: first of all the baltic states weren't socialist, they were communitist, big difference, i dont see people fleeing great britian, a socialist country; this told me right away that the authers views were biased, second, whats wrong with a constructon worker doing constructon work and enjoying his line of work while making an honest living, or a truck driver, or a whatever technical trade it may be, doesn't sound very fair to let illegals to come here in drones and take these jobs away, or to continue working in these fields and making $2.00 an hr, does't sound very american to me, i say build the damn wall, shoot the bastards on sight, whether its the mexicans or the russians, i dont give a
shat

Name: David

Date: 18 Jul 2006 08:46:48     

Comment: visit this link, this may change your mind about the people who are seeking to become legal in this country  legalizetheirish.org

Name: Samuel

Date: 21 Jul 2006 09:17:41     

Comment: Axis of Evil: The White House, Congress, Supreme Court, and Mexico! (Reference “Mexifornia” by Professor Victor Davis Hansen) Many years ago while driving the canyon here in my native Kern County I would see an occasional “John loves Mary” painted on one of the rocks along the river. But this was a rare aberration, since the river and canyon were so very beautiful only barbarians would even think of marring such beauty. Some few of you will recall when a drive up the canyon to Kernville was an adventure. The old road in the 30s and 40s with its seemingly endless “S” curves nearly the whole way often resulted in car sickness. But the sheer beauty of the canyon and river caused many to make the drive simply to enjoy some of the best Mother Nature had provided, and the pristine beauty of the Kern River Valley with the river flowing through unrestricted, the old town of Kernville the perfect movie locale for westerns at the time made the trip more than worthwhile When I was a boy in Little Oklahoma I would look east toward our “Purple Mountain’s Majesty,” the mountains draped in a muted purple haze and dream of the adventure that surely awaited me if I could only explore them. The mist-shrouded mountains reminded me of the stories of Cooper and Zane Grey. They were the magical domain of Kit Carson and Jim Bridger, and I longed to become a real mountain man, having such a mystical world to explore on my own, not knowing I would eventually be doing so. On occasion my grandparents would make the trip up the canyon just to enjoy the scenic splendor, and my grandmother would point out “pictures” she would see in the various rock formations, much as we see pictures in the clouds. One of her favorites was that of a woman at a piano. I would dutifully try to make out the picture, but always failed to see it. However, I had no doubt my grandmother could see it. But as Mexican barbarians began to invade Kern County resulting in the defacing of so much by gang feces like dogs marking their turf euphemistically labeled “graffiti,” I knew it would only be a matter of time before the barbarians began to deface the beauty of our Kern River Canyon. And so it has proven to be. A few years ago I wrote the Californian, Don Rogers, and some others expressing my concern about seeing this Mexican gang feces beginning to appear in the canyon. One barbarian had even scrawled his illiterate gang feces on an old Cottonwood limb growing out over the water. To me, this was little short of “sacrilege!” But suppose anyone had tried to intervene with this barbarian thug? They would probably be shot by the Mexican barbarian, as actually happened not that long ago in Bakersfield.
Complaints about the Mall and Ming Avenue being overtaken by barbarians have little chance of accomplishing anything when barbarian Mexicans, most illegal aliens, have invaded and taken over. And then to complain about the police not doing their jobs when they are emasculated from doing so by greedy lawyers and the anti-American ACLU, etc. is madness! “One Nation Under God?” Well, despite the hypocrisy of so many do detractors have something better to offer? But America is far from being “one nation” as we continue to be mongrelized by invading millions of illegal alien barbarians from Mexico for the sake of slave labor benefiting only the wealthy like Caesar Bush and Company. While the news of current wars is making thoughts of those bomb shelters in the backyard once more inviting, my friend in England having lived through the Blitz has a host of stories to tell of that era. When the bombs are actually falling on you, when loved ones and friends, your neighbors are being blown up now that is Reality! Not a movie or video game. At that time in history here in my native state we had real reason for concern about the Japanese invading, while those on the East Coast had to deal with the threat of Nazis and some could see ships actually blowing up from German submarine attacks. WWII was made very real to us here at home through the many demands made on us for the war effort. There were the ubiquitous Victory Gardens, rationing, war stamps and bonds, scrap metal and rubber drives, all the things that go into waging a real war. But the barbarians were finally defeated and America entered into a “new age of prosperity,” an age of which Gidget and the great musicals
were representative. The future promised so much, but that future was betrayed by the new breed of “Carpetbaggers” intent on plunder, and as a result the barbarians are not only “at the gate,” they have arrived by the millions from the enemy nation of Mexico, the illiterate and barbarous excess population of that barbarous and totally corrupt nation
invading and colonizing America for the sake of slave labor benefiting only the present Carpetbaggers in the White House and Congress together with their corporate bosses. Well, here where I write in my small corner of the Sequoia National Forest I continue to look south, expecting to see that mushroom cloud rising over that cesspool of Los Angeles. But I fear that is what it will take before our treasonous “leadership” will recognize refusing to secure our borders with Mexico for the sake of slave labor all the while extorting We the People to pay the bills through taxation without representation is inviting that very thing.

Name: Selina

Date: 27 Jul 2006 21:58:32   

Comment: The Illegal Immigrations are not here to take over USA, their here to work and to help make the US a better place. Since many of the Illegal Immigrations are already here, we should let them stay here and then maybe there could be something done to help or prevent the others from coming into the US, I'm not saying that to be mean, but if the US is getting really crowed then we should do something about it, but let the Illegal Immigrations that are here in the USA stay.

Name: Elise

Date: 29 Jul 2006 11:13:28    

Comment: Appreciate the opportunity to add to comments.  Not any issue has upset me more in recent years than this one,  perhaps because I think it is the only one about which I can have some control, or should have such control!   Lou Dobbs is my guy, I follow him every day as much as possible.  He's the only person I know of on television who really tells things as they really are!   I would like to know best ways to choose people to vote for or against this fall.   We need some kind of National archive of some sort that e-mailers can easily get to that will
tell us by state and zip code  who will be on our ballot, and that person's stand, or not, on Illegal Immigration.  I did not vote for Senator Feinstein in primary, nor her protege Spieres.  More and more IF I DON'T KNOW A CANDIDATES STAND ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, OR IF NOT MINE, I just automatically leave that person blank.  Scared to death about those corrupted voting machine, but not exactly surprised.  The way the things are going, it doesn't look good to me for the USA, have said for a couple of decades as one 70 this August that "We are rapidly becoming a third world country."  Changed that assessment recently to "We are one."
IS hope you can come up with a national plan so we can find out who is
for what .   Never mind what they send us in the mail.  Large population who are deaf, as true of me, need guidance especially because of communication limited.  E-mail our most wonderful hope, except when, God forbid, sound added.
Thanks for reading and considering all of the above.  Journalism major, writer of many letters to editors of magazines published, and newspapers in several states.  One time Feature Editor of Vermont Junior College News:  1957!

Name: Ania

Date: 29 Jul 2006 09:22:47    

Comment: Not all immigrants are here illegally. Some are on visas like H4, J2 etc. and these visas don't permit work. People are forced to break the rules to be able to live. I have a friend whose husband works on one of these visas. When he started he had job permit, but later his wife changed visa and he lost it, but he continued to work. He pays taxes and social security. I think that this kind of immigrants are not bad people, they just need permit to work. They should be allowed to stay in US. They are not criminals and they do not take work from us. Our ancestors came to US for the same reasons, to have a better life. Most of the immigrants want just the same thing and they should be allow to do so.

Name: J.B.

Date: 28 Jul 2006 17:14:47    

Comment: You say no amnesty. However, under your "Fixing The Current Mess":
"Illegal immigrants should register their presence in the USA by obtaining a worker’s ID from an employment agency and paying a standard processing fee.".....AMNESTY
"Illegal immigrants that could prove that they have stayed here for at least five years should be entitled to obtain a status of permanent resident, opening the venue to citizenship.".....AMNESTY
"Illegal immigrants registering their presence here should pay their past due taxes, with interest, if that is the case. Penalties for not paying taxes on time should be voided."....AMNESTY
Most of your other ideas are pretty lame also.

Name: L. T.

Date: 29 Jul 2006 22:31:30      

Comment: What a bunch of garbage. One sick individual.

Name: d.i.

Date: 29 Jul 2006 22:31:30      

Comment: I disagree with the last one that says: Foreigners which are rich enough to live here without working should be allowed to do so. What if the terrorists who are well funded by rich arabs will pretend as rich foreigners be allowed to be here just because they have millions of dollars to show. That is not fair to the poor hard working foreigner who just want to have a good life & future for their children.

Name: Ania

Date: 1 Aug 2006 17:45:03     

Comment: I think that your immigration plan is much better than the system that US has now because this system forces people to break the rules not obey them. I also think that illegal immigration is not good and should be
stopped a.s.a.p. because it is dangerous to let anybody in, but we have to somehow accept the people who are already here (legally or not and working legally or not). Most of them want just to have a chance for better life and we gave them the opportunity to come here (legally or not) because of our bad immigration polices. It is our government’s fault that the borders are not secured, people just took the opportunity to have better lives. We physically can't and should not remove those people who leave here already (sometimes for years) because they are already part of our society. Many of them pay taxes.  We have to accept them and give them the opportunity to work and gain permanent residency and citizenships or at lest legalize their status. Let’s not forget how our ancestors came here. The whole animosity against the foreigners reminds me of hunt of Jews in Europe during the II world war. What happened to our religious believes? What would Jesus do in this situation? Would he also go after foreigners like INS does or he would try to help these poor people? Think people, think! 

Name: Cynthia

Date: 3 Aug 2006 05:52:11     

Comment: I agree with everything you say. Do you have aim or something like aim so I can ask you ??? and you can help me with some answers of what to do about a situation I am in?my husband is mexican and I am a U.S. citizen this month on the 25th we will be married 4 years, and now he has been deported and can`t come back in the U.S. for 10 years.

Name: Mitch

Date: 2 Aug 2006 11:31:53     

Comment: I feel for those suffering in 3rd world countries.  But unless we want to be one too we have to control immigration.  Wide open borders are not the answer.  Mexico needs to stop being so corrupt and take care of their own.  The US needs to stop worrying about everyone else and take care of ourselves. No one else is going too.  Were was the out pouring of world wide aid for Katrina?  Maybe other countries would dislike us so much if at times we minded our own business a little. America needs to close the border.  Punish in some form (at least) the
illegals that are already here.) Community Service, fines, classes SOMETHING and build a wall to secure the Southern more poreous border.  The longer to wall exists the more illegals will cross. They don't address the amnesty issue but I found this websight from a sight that wants to build a strong border ("his opponent"). Check it
out, the link is on Henryk's home page on immigration.

Name: Morris

Date: 29 Jul 2006 12:55:52     

Comment: I must commend you Mr. Kowalczyk. Yours is the first and only report, research paper or whatever that I have seen that makes any sense. I came to the same conclusion you did last year when I started trying to get "smart" on immigration and immigration reform. What the House was doing and did do in December was so far off base. We can only hope that the Government never backs down and goes with what the House has proposed. Ten Dollar heads of lettuce will only be a drop in the bucket. I am a long time republican but not really proud of that fact lately, but still a republican. The representative to the House representing my District is a republican who is "hard line" anti-immigration, build the wall and every immigrant here who is out of status or undocumented is a felon. We use to exchange mail weekly - my trying to convince him that his position is wrong,  and him trying to tell me where I was wrong in wanting to accept all of the immigrants here as citizens. He eventually quit responding to my letters, faxes and emails but I still write him weekly in Washington with my views and asking him to do the research to really understand what he is trying to deal with.

Name: Robert

Date: 31 Jul 2006 06:52:23       

Comment: Mr Kowalczyk, With respect neo-classical economics and the hidden hand of the market is no way to run a nation`s immigration system. Three reasons:-
1. The wages and salaries of native born citizens would be depressed by immigrants pushing down wages. In a democracy such a policy is a non-starter as voters would reject it out of hand.
2. Open immigration is a threat to National Security.
3. Open immigration would exacerbate civil unrest, undermine the authority of centralised government, and fracture the nation-state in to balkanised tribal and increasingly violent opposing geo-factions.
Think again Sir.

Name: Candace

Date: 4 Aug 2006 05:41:36      

Comment: These illegal immigrants are taking our jobs away and live here illegally.  The only people who are befitting from this are the people that are hiring these workers under the table and not paying their taxes on these workers.

Name: S.M.D.

Date: 13 Aug 2006 09:21:03        

Comment: Quite frankly Sir I think you are out of your mind!

Name: shailesh

Date: 10 Aug 2006 18:56:58        

Comment: Fix this prob permenantly.

Name: Ania

Date: 14 Aug 2006 06:56:04

Comment: To Paul: your ideas are interesting, but you have to remember that some immigrants (legal but working without work permits) pay taxes, pay their bills, pay social security and are not living on welfare. They contribute to US economy a lot and are paid regular wages. What about these people? I agree that illegal immigration is bad and we have to stop it, but some of the people who are in US legally but are forced to work without work permits because of the stupid immigration rules that we have, have to be somehow forgiven for breaking these ridiculous rules. Yes, let's call it amnesty. There is nothing wrong with it, and many countries do it once in a while (last time Spain). There is no way we will be able to deport all illegals either or stop illegal immigration if we don't change our laws. Trust me, many people would love to get work permits, pay their taxes back and finally legalize their status here. The whole situation reminds me of hunt of Jews in Europe or the racial problems that we had in this country not long time ago.

Name: Rex

Date: 11 Aug 2006 07:26:27

Comment: Re: Citizens for a Secure Border. You're both wrong. Immigration is a problem because it lowers American wages and strains government budgets for education and public assistance.The solution is to
1) cut the current immigration quotas from their current level of one million annually, and
2) prosecute employers who hire illegal aliens.  When penalties for illegal hiring are severe enough, and the probability of prosecution is high enough, employers will stop hiring these people and then the people
who are here illegally will return to their homes.
A solution that focuses upon discouraging employers has the additional benefit that it can be funded (partially or completely) by fines assessed against the lawbreakers (employers), whereas a wall or additional border guards is just another load on a federal government that is already funding its day-to-day operations on a credit card.

Name: Paul

Date: 13 Aug 2006 17:27:43       

Comment: Derek I don't mind if they come legally and ask for higher wages and benefits.  That would be good because the jobs that they are taking are from people who don't want to give them insurance benefits or pay taxes.  If they request higher wages and benefits then they would be asking for the same thing that the normal American worker ask for and that would lead to competition for the job from Americans also.  That wouldn't hurt nobody in fact that would help raise wages for citizens who are in these lines of work.  Plus if they are here legally they would
have to pay taxes which would benefit the economy and help sponsor any children they may have in America.  This would give back to the school system and insurance would help out the medical field too.  Many illegal immigrants without insurance have children in hospitals and never pay the bill.  Without them being documented it is impossible to track them down and recover the money.  At least an American citizen who  doesn't pay their hospital bill would be able to be tracked and have some sort of legal action brought against them to recover the money. Some hospitals can't afford to hire more personnell due to the money they spend on illegal immigrants medical help.  If all illegal immigrants paid taxes it would benefit our economy.  The only part of our economy that illegal immigrants benefit now are big business, businesses that hire them and businesses that sell to them.  For the ordinary person who
works for a company instead of owning it they don't see any of these benefits.  They have to pay increasing taxes to help support schools hospitals and social services for which many illegal immigrants children rely on.  That person who is paying higher taxes doesn't get a raise because their company's net profit is up.  They don't get more money
because the company's expenses are down due to the hiring of cheaper staff. They just get to pay higher taxes to support other people who work for a living making 5 dollars an hour working in a field.  You're right though immigrants keep the cost of labor down but who does that benefit. It doesn't benefit me unless I own a business who hires illegals or a multimillion dollar corporation who makes sure they have employess who speak foreign languages so they can take their money.  Don't try to tell me that it brings the cost of products to other consumers down because it don't.  Think about it if you owned a company that hired people who work for substandard wages are you doing it to help the American consumer with prices on products or are you doing it to get a larger profit margin on items that you charge the same as your competitor.  Maybe it makes product pricing a little more competitive far as one guy
dropping his price by 50 cents to beat out the other guy but lets face it you're not going to save as much as they are going to make off of you. If you were then why even bother hiring illegals when they could hire legal immigrants or citizens and not have to worry about paying 5 0,000 dollar fines to the government every time they catch you.  If
hiring illegals didn't benefit the employer as to the fact that 50,000 is a lot less than what they would of payed if they had to pay taxes and offer benefits to the person they wouldn't do it.  Why would a person risk this kind of business if they weren't making more money.  Why do people sell drugs because it pays more than a regular job.  Its not so they can benefit other people with bargain basement pricing its so they can make the American dream Money.  These companies that hire illegals aren't trying to save us money they are trying to make more money.  Oh one
more thing just food for thought.  Illegals drive cars too if they weren't here maybe we wouldn't have to pay 3 dollars a gallon for gas because instead of going through it like air we might have a little less demand for it and the companies who sell it might be a little less compelled to raise prices at the drop of a hat.  I'm just saying because there is over 4,000,000 illegals and from what I've seen they all have a car. Figure 20 gallons of gas a week from 4,000,000 cars thats 80,000,000 gallons a week and 320,000,000 gallons a month. That might save us a barrel or two a day.

Name: ted

Date: 12 Aug 2006 16:37:06         

Comment: What part of illegal do you not understand. Kick the law breakers out they were not asked to come here and sure are not being asked to stay. Does someone hiring a person to rob a place not become an accompliance? So are the jerks hiring these unlawful persons. Giving them welfare, etc is the same as giving them a job. It gives them a reason to stay. Throqw the _________ is jali that hire them, give them welfare or in any means assitst them in being here.

Name: Bill

Date: 10 Aug 2006 08:15:54        

Comment: Illegal immigration or immigration should not be simply regulated by the market.  The thirst for cheap labor is insatiable by greedy employers and consumers.  In the mean time, immigrants from Mexico will be undermining our economy and social structure by driving down wages, living in squalor, spreading the Spanish language throughout the U.S. And by the second generation they are dropping out of high school at a 50% rate, being unwilling to work for substandard wages, having illegitimate births at a higher rate than African Americans along with the highest rates of crime and gang membership.  Why don't you justify the importation of slaves into the American economy if the market would support it?

Name: Patrick

Date: 9 Aug 2006 09:18:12       

Comment: Sorry, but you are a liberal intellectual (complete idiot). Read this paragraph very closely, and you can see why we have to stop illegal immigration and return legal immigration to pre 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act levels.

Eventually, they will have enough political power to make sure that we never enforce our immigration laws. That means that the world will export their unemployment problems here, half the planet will flood in here, and traditional English speaking Americans will become a minority group in our own land.

wa la, a political takeover thanks to people like you. It doesn't matter whether its a military invasion or political takeover, either way the results are the same. Once they are in charge, they will make our schools Spanish, most of our tv stations will be in Spanish, and even our highway signs will be changed to Spanish. It doesn't matter what laws we pass now, they will reverse them eventually.
You are such an idiot that you don't even realize that the very act of letting in half a million people each year illegally, is what is creating the demand for more jobs to be filled. We actually do have enough people to fill the jobs that we need for ourselves. They are also using unlimited population growth to try and compensate for our free trade
losses. This gives the illusion of a healthy economy by telling people that they created so many jobs last month. $8 trillion national debt and $2 trillion personal debt in this country is not healthy anyway you look at it.

Name: lance

Date: 9 Aug 2006 20:20:02        

Comment: The true "free enterprise" advocate recognizes that their philosophy requires the abolition of all social programs (welfare, public health, public education, etc.) before having open borders.
Abolish all those programs first and then we can talk.
Personally I completely disagree with the philosophy, but go ahead and have at it if you wish, just don't go with the "half-wit" Libertarianism of someone like Congressman Jeff Flake, who wants open borders even while immigrants are free to come to this country in order to get on the welfare gravy train.

Name: Don

Date: 23 Aug 2006 15:53:17

Comment: Just today I  found your website and was pleased to read your vision of the need for a sensible Immigration policy. I have been living out of the country for the last eighteen years, primarily because I couldn't continue to support my lifestyle in the US.  I have just recently moved back to the US and am living in the Lower Rio Grande Valley with my Mexican wife and twelve year old Mexican daughter.  Because of the rigid Immigration system now in place, I have had to bring them both across illegally while I work on getting them legalized. The expense and complications of this venture are putting a real hardship on me and my family.  Enough about that. I read your comments and solutions with great interest because it has been a plan of mine to try to start an Agency to recruit Latino workers and place them with US companies if and when the Government decides to allow such an Enterprise.  Since I am already almost seventy-five I hope it's not to much longer. I do not fully agree with all your proposals but your are certainly barking up the right tree.

Name: Robert

Date: 21 Aug 2006 11:33:29 

Comment: You, my friend, are suggesting just a band aid to the initial problem. I feel that the only true way to solve the problem of illegal immigration is to enforce the laws as they are currently written, and deal with the illegals that are here presently. I feel that if you come to the US illegally, than you are a criminal. Period... If you have an anchor baby, you and the baby are here illegally. How can you justify amnesty for these people that have run down our
medical programs, have caused our auto insurance rates to go up, put undo stress to our school sytems and social programs. How can you reward these people for breaking our laws and not respecting our sovreignty. Its people like you that embolden the illegal aliens...and let me stress the word ILLEGAL.

Name: jimmy

Date: 17 Aug 2006 21:52:15

Comment: I feel you are wrong. The bottom line is illegal means just that. A law has been broken and if one starts out breaking one law, so what's a few others? Over 40% of our social service budget is spent on illegals and their anchor babies. I feel that we are more than just by the way we let illegals slide now. If an American citizen were to try and illegally slip into Mexico, Vincente would have them locked up, fined, given jail time and then pushed back into our borders. The reason he wants GW's bill is that as you know several billions of dollars are sent back each year to Mexico by illegals working here. I have worked and paid taxes for forty years and I do mind my contribution to someone who can't speak engkish and is not here legally. The middle class who as you know pay most of the taxws, once again thanks to the idiot's in Washington, do not have any representation that a good lobbyist can get
around. Tell me, have you ever had to scrap together peenies and dimes to buy your wife and three kids milk and bread, then while standing in line see an illegal couple in front of you who cannot speak any english and then whip out food stamps to pay for two baskets full of groceries? I think not and neither has bush,cheney, or rove!

Name: Paul

Date: 16 Aug 2006 15:41:54

Comment: As long as your for letting anyone and every one in why don't you let the mexican gang ms13 live next door to you and if you have children they'd be fun to play with, games like blood in blood out jump
in and jump out they could even live with you,or  better yet another nation wide gang latin kings or the cripts would do good to next to you or the bloods or a jamacian possie. Theres a real nice hatian gang you'd enjoy living next to also. Theres also a lot of muslims that are waiting to blow you up to,so open up your doors america let them all in. Look how are streets are turning red with all this open immigration now think of how much redder it can be if you get your way. It's bleeding heart liberals like you that are runing america. If they aren't here legaly deport them they are breaking the law and your supporting them.If they break one law and get away with it why not break another then another because they have people like you that will stick up for them and say !  look where they came from and what they went thru there so we need to help them.If they didn't like what was going on where they came from why didn't they try to change it there instead of comming here and trying to change us.Whats wrong with them fighting for their rights where they came from.I would like to know how they have rights here? They aren't here legaly so where do they have rights? They work here to make money but do they spend it here?No most of them send it back to where they came from taking that much out of our economy. Tell me how this helps us out.sure they work here but we really don't benefit from it if they send most of it to another country,it helps that economy out not ours.so tell
me how your right and were wrong.my great grand father learned english when he came here they want us to learn their language to talk to them, ever been to miami,try go into some stores there and buy something most
don't and won't speak english.so your right let them in make mexican or cuban the language of america and let them do to you as we did to the real americans,put you on a resevation and take everything from you.

Name: Martha

Date: 14 Aug 2006 15:25:07

Comment: As I stood in the grocery line today I saw a hispanic woman buy 300.00 worth of groceries and then pay for them with food stamps. The reason I knew it was food stamps was because she tried to get her "paper" products paid for too.   Her "English" became poor when she was told to remove the items.  My next trip was the Dr's office where I saw 5 hispanics getting their bill paid for by Tenn Care.  There is just so many people the tax payers can support.  I am fast running out of change!  My problem with "companies" reducing the pay for EVERYONE because
hispanics will "work cheaper" is horrible.  As an American I have to present proof of who I am to get a drivers license, but if I was from south of the border I don't even have to have a photo ID... My  light bill would work!  I think ALL Illegals need to "PAY THEIR WAY".  And that makes coperate america responsible TOO!  Americans do not live 3 familys to a home.  We do not get 600 a month in food Stamps and my insurance cost me 70.00 a week and I still have deducitibles!  There are right and wrong ways to do everything... I think ALL the social programs need to be stopped for the illegals... Then they would go back home. They cannot live in a real America

Name: E.M.G.

Date: 20 Aug 2006 07:38:52

Comment: some 100%american are so ,,patriotic,,cause economy still good.soon we all gonna see them true faith.i,m illegal i,m going home i,m sick to be treat like this. 

Name: Larry

Date: 19 Aug 2006 17:49:59

Comment: Massive mind-blowing illegal immigration is a dagger aimed at the heart of U.S. citizenship, sovereignty and the rule of law. Giving legal status or amnesty to 12-25 million illegal aliens is a recipe for national suicide.  President Bush is a QUISLING and you can look up the word. 

Name: thomas

Date: 19 Aug 2006 15:49:48

Comment: we the american people demand our law enforcement act in dealing with illigal immagrants emidently, these illigal humans must and will be deported. the govt must enforce this law, no if and's or buts. now do it.we the people demand.

Name: Peter

Date: 18 Aug 2006 13:44:57

Comment: I don't know your nationality but you don't sound Caucatian. No they will not see in the same light as you do. The problem of US immigration is that of power and politics - who is in control of the super power USA. With an open immigration system as you suggest, Caucatians will be in the minority next month and that is not good for their political agenda. But I think your idea is most profitable for business and America (USA) which in my view is an "Economic Country".

Name: Derek

Date: 7 Aug 2006 20:38:36      

Comment: This is a polemic to some posts before. Were black slaves taking jobs from Americans in 18th and 19th century? Well, maybe some white farm workers were hurt by that. And today some folks may feel threatened by a competition from a Mexican who makes $5 or $10 per hour. But most would agree that slave work helped to build
America. I guess that the cost of keeping a slave would be higher nowadays than hiring a Mexican. So indeed, there is no need to legalize them. If legalized, thay may demand higher pay, better working conditions, maybe even benefits. US economy will suffer. Why should we not keep slaves?

Name: Jennifer

Date: 3 Aug 2006 09:21:46      

Comment: I am a U.S. Citizen and the wife of an immigrant from El Salvador.  My husband obtained TPS a few months after crossing the border. After 3 renewals of TPS/Work Authorization, he was denied because of a mistake made on his renewal application. The mistake was made by the "lawyer."  My husband is now in the U.S. and has overstayed his status. There is not much that can be done for us.  The whole immigration situation has been so  stressful.  My husband came from nothing.  He risked his life to come to the U.S., like many other immigrants.  He did not enter this country illegally with the intent that he wanted to break the laws.  He had no choice.  He came here to survive.  He risked his life to walk here because he had no choice.  There was no work for him, no food, no money, nothing.  It enrages me to hear people say that these immigrants need to go back to their own countries.  Anybody would make the same decision to come over here if they were put in the same positions.  I want to change people's opinions about illegal immigrants.  I just want people to put themselves in their position.

Name: DTS

Date: 7 Aug 2006 23:06:35       

Comment: Just some ideas of a pray :

God, please bless me and my family but not the 'illegals' ;
God, thank you for forgiving all my trespasses and give me another chance. But God, the 'illegals' are something else, they don't deserve You;
God, thank you for bringing me back home to my family at the end of the day and thank you for my proud accomplishment that I've help deported a mother of 'illegals' today ;
God, please make sure that in Heaven, everybody will only speak English ... and please, only people that I feel comfortable with ;
Most of all God, thank you for only hearing to MY pray because as you know God, my family and I are better human being compare to 'illegals';

:) I'm just trying to say ..., let's be more humane. everybody ..... God bless America !!! no matter what !!!

Name: Albert

Date: 20 Aug 2006 11:43:14 

Comment: Such liberal trash...you people should get real.

Name: Tela

Date: 25 Aug 2006 12:42:35   

Comment: Illegal immigration and the arrogance of the illegals and people like you are setting us up for a civil war.  You are not here in the thick of it like we are in Arizona.  There is going to be hell to pay.
we are tired of this crap and you had better learn what you are talking about.  Don't be an instigator of civil war.

Name: Pat

Date: 23 Aug 2006 20:46:56  

Comment: I have a problem with all the immigrants that are coming from overseas(India and all other countries-Pakistan-and on and on- I live in a community where there are a lot of apartments at the end of
a subdivision,and it is getting full of immigrants.  They are older people, of whom do not work-younger people who do not speak english-and these are people that are constantly adding more and more to our community.  I feel like a minority.  They get free housing, government assistance, and go to our best schools and colleges on our government money. When will someone wake up and smell the coffee that we need to control the people we let in to our country before we are a minority?  I think all states should have to report all foreign visitors and new citizens to have a handle on what is actually going on.  We have a census every so many years,why not make a census for the immigrants.  Report or deport...  

Name: Rick

Date: 27 Aug 2006 22:34:05    

Comment: You sir are full of liberal B.S.To enter the U.S. illegally is a crime.Crimes should be punnished,not rewarded.The wave of illegal immigrants threatens our verry way of life,our identity as a nation,and our country's future.I welcome any one from any country who enters this great country of ours legally but for those who have no respect for our laws I recommend harsh pennalties and deportation.   One dedicated Marine

Name: joy

Date: 27 Aug 2006 18:17:25    

Comment: I think immigration is a problem in every country that has good economic. Have you found any country can solve this problem efficiently? What Americans really fear at this point is another revolution?

Name: Roger

Date: 27 Aug 2006 14:04:29    

Comment: There are obviously some things you people haven't cosidered about the mexicans. I live in tepic, mexico and can tell you many have no moral fiber. They don't trust eachother as much as they trust gingo's. their windows are barred, their doors have at least three locks, and their walls are laced with broken bottles. They have armed police at banks, jewerly stores, electonic outlets, and roof tops. If you long to live like that then move to mexico, or at least come down and see for yourself what its like here. If you do come down be careful when you use the toliet as the set has probaly been stolen. good luck

Name: Anonymous

Date: 30 Aug 2006 20:01:09       

Comment: Is there an American organization that advocates for legal residents of the US than we can join. Why can't Americans organize demonstrations throughout the country? LULAC is bying homes for illigal immigrants in Farmers Branch, Texas. I wish someone would help me purchase a home.

Name: scott

Date: 30 Aug 2006 19:38:01      

Comment: no illegal alien no matter how long they have been here should be allowed a front row seat.If you think I'm wrong,stand in line at the grocery store for 45 minutes and now it is your turn,your ice cream is melting,your milk and meats getting warm,now another customer cuts the line.Do you let them go before you with an I'm sorry,or tell them to stand in line like you did? By the way,why should I have to press 1 for english.My people got off the boats in the early 1900's from Italy and Scotland.Yes,they all learned english.

Name: Mike

Date: 29 Aug 2006 12:00:48     

Comment: I saw nothing about overpopulation effects. I also saw nothing about the De Facto War by Mexico that is now killing 12,325 Americans per year(murder, vehicular homicide, diseases brought in)---more than Vietnam and the War on Terror combined!; the Invasion from there of 27 million partially armed with automatic and other weapons (200,000 in LA alone!); the 400 billion per year real cost to Americans; the 22 Mex Military Incursions average per year; using babies as biological warfare; and Abrogation of the 1848 Treaty--meaning the war is still on; and untold American wounded and crime victims.

Name: Jim

Date: 29 Aug 2006 14:19:17    

Comment: I'm afraid the plan to draft the Bush twins (What are their names again? Jenna & Anheiser?) could backfire "Big Time," to quote Buckshot Dick. The problem with this plan? Well, if you were Laura and finally found a
way to get the twins out of the country & keep them there, wouldn't you go for it? If the girls ended up in Iraq for the duration, Laura would never let George end the war.

Name: calvino

Date: 30 Aug 2006 15:34:26     

Comment: U R TRAITOR TO THIS COUNTRY---U R A SELL OUT THAT HAVE ALLOWED THE FAT,NASTY,UGLY AND OVER SEXED RIFFRAFF OF THE WORLD TO TAKE OVER OUR ONCE GREAT NATION. HAVE U NO SHAME?

Name: Anonymous

Date: 29 Aug 2006 16:16:12     

Comment: You are a traitor! Your 5th collumn plan will be rejected by true patriots of America. We will fight before we give in to you and your ilk!

Name: Jeanne

Date: 31 Aug 2006 08:57:28        

Comment: Someday soon, the USA will be called UNITED STATES OF AMEXICO.

Illegal's of any nationality need to be sent back and/or penalized for being here illegal.  Yet our government continue to reward them, healthcare, welfare help (temporary???) and today, California is voting on whether to give them the opportunity to get financial aide for college.

Take a look around in your stores.  In Walmart, the aisles are now labeled in both Spanish and English.  The more Americans complain, the better it seems to be getting for the illegals! We just keep making it easier and easier for them. Please WAKE UP you taxpayers!

Name: Michael

Date: 31 Aug 2006 06:38:30       

Comment: I do know of Mexicans here that deal in cash frequently. Whether they are legal or illegal, I do not know for sure.  I am assuming illegal.  I do know that they are doing temporary labor jobs here and there, and are paid in cash.  This is in response to your comment about taxes in "Neither Immigration Nor Reform"

Name: Connie

Date: 1 Sep 2006 23:34:39

Comment: I have been torn about immagration in the past. I think we definitely need to change some things and it needs to be done fast. What about young people, who are work force age or college age, who were brought here illegally by their parents when they were very young children?? Is it fair to punish them because they grew up here, went to school here and really don't have any other home. I think our politicians need to think about these people who were to young to even know they were being brought over here illegally. There should be some kind of special provisions for people who fall in to this category. What are they to do return to Mexico? If so, to what? Their friends and family are here and really they were to young to break the law. If you have been here for let's say 8 to 10 years and you speak good English, have not broken the law and want to support yourself, you should be able to openly declare you are here and you want to work and stay here legall! y. Our government should have compassion for people who fall in to this category. This is different than being 16 years old and up and crossing the border knowing you are breaking laws. My heart goes out to those who can prove they were here and went to grade school through High School and now are expected to go back to a place they really don't even know, leave their homes and family, friends, communities. These are people who have already assimalated in to our culture. Please legislators, for once try to make a real workable solution for those who are already Americans, except for the citizenship paper work. Shut down the southern border and work on getting all those, already here, who want to openly be a citizen of this country interviewed and documented and naturalized. If they have broken laws send them back. Get a handle on who is here and in the meantime pass some legislation that will allow those who want to come here to work, come here legally and set some ! realistic standards for them to become citizens. I do not believe in dual citizenship. You can only pay allegiance to one nation, one flag, one government. If you love America and want to stay, you must adapt to her customs, language, laws, and traditions. Otherwise, I guess you should always be here on visa type status. That's just what I think is right. God Bless America and might her legislators please try to do what is right for our people. This is a country of immagrants who have the great country what she is today!!

Name: John

Date: 1 Sep 2006 15:03:07

Comment: If OUR goverment can kill 3,000 people in the Trade center by blowing the buildings up. Then claiming it was Alcida. I don't think any thing I or anybody would say and or vote on will count.

Name: Jamie

Date: 31 Aug 2006 23:41:02

Comment: I think some Americans still have there head in the water. Our country's is going to crap because some are to pathetic to fight for our country. We need illegals out. Wake up America your country is slipping through your fingers!!

Name: michael

Date: 31 Aug 2006 16:07:01

Comment: Why bring foreingers here to work we can not go to there countries and work.. Why not say that its the responsibility of there government to make jobs for them and they stay in there country and we stay in our country... Im tired of the native born americans getting what our fore fathers built taken away from us because no one else want to build up there country.. Man r u an american..Why should americans have to work harder but the immigrant dont have to work hard to get there country together ... Im for all of the world being rich so i can have the oppurtunity to go there and make money.. or stay with my kind and not find myself living among 3rd world people... What did they do when america was in the great depression did those countries help us out...

Name: Anna

Date: 2 Sep 2006 20:55:34

Comment: it was very interesting to know somebody else's point of view about this controvercial issue. i enjoyed reading your essays.

Name: Arlene

Date: 2 Sep 2006 04:07:42

Comment: Who ever you are you are incredibly stupid.

Name: Jackie

Date: 3 Sep 2006 06:18:34 

Comment: We're going about solving the tangled mess of illegal immigration all wrong! If the Mexican government provided for their own people they wouldn't be so desperate to come to the United States. Mexico is actually a rich country, but the money is concentrated in a very, very small segment of the population (as it was before the Mexican revolution). Why isn't the world community condemning the Mexican government for creating and maintaining the conditions that put their citizens at such risk? The people risk starvation, grinding poverty or the ever riskier illegal entry into the U.S. because they are trying to survive. World Community - demand that the Mexican government take care of its citizens!

Name: George

Date: 4 Sep 2006 08:15:15  

Comment: I am for the House bill as it stands. The immigration laws as written were enacted by democratic means and meet the needs of the nation. They are forward looking, in that they recognize that this country has entitlement programs for the poor and that a nation of poor cannot be successful. Adding additional welfare entitlement qualified persons to this country as citizens would be self-defeating. This country needs a well educated people to allow it to compete in the world market. It shouldn't be in the business of reducing its literacy rate in order bail other poorly managed countrys out of their political messes.

Social Security is tending towards bankruptsy, and increasingly earned income tax credits, food stamps and other entitlements reduce the quality of life for the current citizen taxpayers in the form of a tax burden. Moreover, adding more non-taxpayer citizens to the rolls further depletes the treasury at a time we are at war and going further into debt. The current U.S. citizen poor already compete a dwingling entitlement resource, so why add more? There is little doubt that adding 10 to 20 million persons who would receive their entire federal and state tax payment refunded. One can hardly argue that the poor and ill educated with family earning five, six or even eight dollars per hour could avoid availing themselves of some form of entitilement program and thus be a burden to the taxpayer. That alone is enough for me to say no to amnesty and yes to disemploymemt and deportation to the current hord of illegal foreign nationals. The billions expended in managing a guest worker program would fall on the taxpayer, not the employer who would reap the benefit. The cost of background checks alone would probably be in the billions of dollars and would likely be inconclusive in results. It would be cheaper to enforce workplace laws, prosecute employers and raid places of employment. Pick a few hundred good candidates, singling them out for raids. Prosecute the employers and impose enormous fines and long prison sentences and the rest would get the idea.

The current presence of illegal foreign nationals, also appropriately known as illegal immigrants has resulted in a massive wave of identity theft, mostly through the use of Social Security cards. The President's willful neglect of our borders has resulted in large numbers of criminals and gangs into this country, and no telling how many foreign agents who would do us harm. American citizens have no right to be asked to endure any increase in crime at the expense of providing jobs to foreign national poor.

Under the law, there is no such thing as an undocumented immigrant. The law doesn't reconize those who come here by illegitimate means as immigrants at all, anymore than it recognizes someone who comes here on a tourist visa as an immigrant. I contend that most working illegal immigrants would contest the characterization "undocumented", as most of them are indeed in the possession of documents, forged ones at that. Illegal immigrants have actively supported the devaluation of many documents which we've taken for granted as important credentials.

If it is in this country's best interest to contribute to the welfare of foreign nationals, let it do so by foreign aid, as it does in much of the world already. The taxpayers and citizens of this country should not forcibly endure the imposition of foreign nationals on its soil, anymore than France had to in 1940. I warrant that most Americans agree with this.

Who are you and what is your background, and why should I listen to anything you say? A web search lists someone under your name as a Polish politician. Are you an American citizen? If not, why do you believe that you should be interfering in the politics of my country?

Nothing in your message addresses the economics of immigration, making it merely a shallow, one sided evaluation.

I believe seen your name in conjunction with the ACLU suit against Hazletonl, PA. Why do you interfere in grass roots politics, the most fundamental and democratic form of politic action? If the will of the people of Hazleton is to support the Federal government's law against illegal immigration, why do you work to thwart it. I doubt that you'd side with the Federal government if it failed to support it's own civil rights laws, so why do you side against the Constitutionially enacted Federal immigration laws. The intent of the Hazleton ordinances is to make it difficult for illegal immigration to occur in their community, so why throw obstacles in front of their effort? After all, isn't it up to all of us to support Federal law, especially ones that are under-resourced, like the immigration laws. The Federal laws aren't just the jurisdiction of the Federal government. If that were so, no violation of Federal law would ever be punished, as their are just not enough Federal agensts to do so. The Federal agencies require the support of local communities to assist them in their effort. Your efforts discourage that.

I suggest that your sense of ethics has been co-opted by the illegal immigration advocacy lobby. They too advocate disobediance to Federal authority on immigration.

Your argument that citizens should disobey disagreeable laws is interesting. However, that begs the question of disagreeable to whom? Does fairness as judged by the illegal immigrants and their advocates have the same legitimacy as those who look objectively at the immigration issues. Should the illegal immigrant have a say at all, since they're the violators of the laws in question. And what of the advocacy groups, comprised mainly of politically motivated ethnic groups, and individuals who are supporting illegal immigrant family members? How much creedance should be given to their obviously biased points of view?

The ACLU has been in the forefront in challenging unconstitutional law. They judge the fairness of law based upon the Constititution itself as a yardstick. As a matter of fact they have even defended the KKK, even though their aims have been repugnant and they promote unfair treatment of others. I assert that Constitutionality is the only test that should be applied to the fairness of the immigration laws. Are the laws Constitutional, ergot fair? I assume so, since the ACLU has never challenged them.

You imply that the immigration laws are unfair? How so, if they are applied equally across the board, to all races and crees? I've been listening to what advocacy groups say, and although they say the laws are unfair, they are hardly specific in their criticisms. I suggest that the immigration laws are not unfair, when evaluated objectively. They are only unfair from the point of view of illegal immigrants and their friends.

Your approach to immigration history fails to take in account that we are now country that grants entitlements to the poor in the form of earned income credit, complete tax refunds for those who live below the poverty level, food stamps, mandatory free medical care to the poor and education regardless of whether one pays for the infrastructure or schooling. Nearly all of the amnestied illegal immigrants would become eligible for these entitlements, but would not be net taxpayers and actually be net recipients of the treasury largesse.

Unless one is very rich, one would get more out of the Social Security system than one puts in. Adding more SS recipients would only add to those numbers and add to the future bankrupt position.

Illegal immigrants and their successor amnestied immigrants would only continue to add to the burden on our medical and educational infrastructures without supporting them. Illegal immigrant property tax contributions are minimal because they tend to increase the population density in their communities by violating the zoning ordinances. They do this by living two or three families in single family homes while paying the same taxes as that for a single, be it as owners or renters.

Illegal immigrant sales tax contributions are minimal, as they have very little in the way of disposable income to purchase luxuries. Any disposable income is generall sent home, contributing to the economy of their homeland, rather than the local community. This is another way they pose a drag on our economy.

Please don't introduce this native or immigrant red-herring to the argument, as it won't wash. It is nowhere germaine to the legality of immigrants or their impact on our local communities. Your stereotyping of native American names is pathetic, as many in Massachusetts adopted English names after arrival of the Pilgrims. Read your American history.

While I abhor Charles' response (see above: Name: Charles Date: 2 Jun 2006 12:21:42), I can't help but note that Mr. Kowalczyk also advocates disobedience of law in his articles on illegal immigration. As it was done in the context of a discussion on illegal immigration, I assume that he was referring to immigration law when he referred to Detokville's assertion that it is ok to disobey laws with which one disagrees. In so doing, Mr. Kowalczyk was condoning criminal behavior, including identity theft by use of forged social security cards. How is he so different from Charles?

Name: Barbara

Date: 4 Sep 2006 16:36:14  

Comment: Thank you for directing me to the "other" site, vowing for closed borders, it is a good site!

Name: anonymous

Date: 3 Sep 2006 06:33:14  

Comment: I don't have a problem with ppl coming to America & doing it the legal way. I do have a problem when they come here illegally & have the gaul to take the American flag down at a US Post Office & put their national flag up instead. I do have a problem when they have huge demonstrations. ALL illegals should be sent back & the law need to be changed. If your mother is an illegal & even if you are born in the US you are an illegal too & should be sent back. That solves the problem of splitting up families because they all go back.

Name: doesn't matter

Date: 8 Sep 2006 18:28:03   

Comment: you are a fool!

Name: Drew

Date: 4 Sep 2006 19:08:50  

Comment: I would recomend mining the entire southern and northern border.Since all I hear is everyone telling us that a wall will not stop them.Have the 4th Army Divison set up kill zones and then show us how brave and determined you really are.And we can ship you all these corporate thevies and all you criminals can be together.

Name: E.W.

Date: 6 Sep 2006 11:21:08    

Comment: I Agree with all you've written here. The only thing you haven't included is the psychological needs of the far right. You should come together with the secure border people and solve this mess together. With your ideas about free market and Immagration reform along with the wall for the security minded, together you could put together a good plan. A plan that would satisfy the majority and possibly get through the political insanity. I think you're right on target with all you've written here. The only thing that's missing is the psychological needs of the far right. You and the secure border people need to come together and use your ideas along with the wall. It would have a much better chance of being voted into law and would satisfy the majority. And as you say, it would draw
tourists for generations to come.

Name: NATIVE American

Date: 5 Sep 2006 03:24:46   

Comment: I think people should think back to how the United States came about. It was because people wanted to be free. I am Native American, and I don't believe that my ancestors wanted the Europeans to come over here and take over what had been theirs in the first place, but did that stop them? No, and they are still coming, taking what they want from us. Are we telling all the "white" people to go back where they came from? To leave so that we can have what rightly belongs to us? Mexicans are just a cross between Natives that went south when the "whites" came
here, and ended up crossing whith the Spanish. So again who rightly should be able to be here? If we are letting the Asians, the East Indians, come here freely what is so wrong with the Mexicans? At least they are working, there are bad people, lazy people in every race, so why just pick on one? Its because people don't think very much.  I work for
Social Services, I see just as many Asians, East Indians, Whites as I do Hispanics. I even have seen one East Indian come in for benefits, and when the investigation was over that person was part owner in a motel and still qualified for their benefits, because of some government leadway from where they were from. So if you think about it what makes them any different? I say if you want one race to go back to where they came from, then all races should go back to where THEY came from. And leave the rightful people here!!!

Name: david

Date: 4 Sep 2006 18:41:06  

Comment: Your solution is probably the best I've seen yet and has a lot of the same ideas that I've been suggesting although I never even considered having the US government apologize for creating such a mess, and they DID create this mess by being too busy overseas fighting all kinds of wars and not tending to their own homefront like they should have. If laws would have been in place to keep them from renting homes or having jobs here and actively been enforced, the people would not have come over here. They ONLY want to better their lives and the lives of their families. If it was the other way around and the good jobs were over in Mexico and you saw your family starving, you would jump a fence and swim any river in order to try to keep your family fed. It's not a racial thing...it's a human thing. Again, you have a great plan and I'd hope you could get it submitted to the politicians and any of them who supposedly have any education at all should see that you have a great plan for the problem at hand and also for the control of immigration in the future...GOOD JOB!!

Name: Sam

Date: 4 Sep 2006 18:01:53  

Comment: Your site seems to promote &/or sanction illegal immigration. I have a simple soloution: Do as Mexico does. In Mexico it is a felony to be an illegal alien. Their penalty is two years in prison. Mexico has troops on their side and high tech surveillanc. I did not see on your long post anything about the North American Union or the Free Trade Area of the Americas. In order for the US a to join the NAU we would have to surrender US sovreingty, eradicate our borders and adopt a new constitution. The open borders policy that allows the millions of illegals to cross the borders is a first step to neutralizing US National Sovreingty. Remember the Roman Empire? The NAU is the rarely mentioned bottom line of the illegal immigration debate, but it is a crucial aspect of the situation. How would you address that? Also have you heard of NAFTA's Texas Super Corridor? Do you think the US should be part of the NAU? Do you support the replacement of the US Constitution with a Canidian, USA & Mexican one? Just some thoughts & Qs from the nosebleed section.

Name: George

Date: 5 Sep 2006 11:40:18    

Comment: An answer to NATIVE American. You make a good point about the affect of the colonialization of
America, but do we have to repeat the same mistakes?  The most devastating part about the migration of Europeans to the New World was their lack of desire for assimilation.  The rejection of assimilation resulted in mistrust, social unrest, war and ultimately the reduction of the American Indian as a player on the American stage.  We, as Americans would be making that mistake all over again by allowing what amounts to mass uncontrolled immigration, some would even say re-colonialization of North America.

There is a real danger that Mexicans will not assimilate but establish colonies, first in the form of ghettos and then on the scale of cities, as has happened in Maywood, California.  If Mexicans feel more comfortable and self-sufficient in their communtities and cultures they may see no need for assimilation.  There is a danger that this situation will pit English and Spanish speaking inhabitants against one another for resources, with commensurate discontent.  Assimilation can only be done gradually, over time, time the pro-amnesty and open borders advocates will not concede. Beware of the illegal immigration advocates, as they are led by the politicians who would thrive on the new Hispanic power, power that can only be gained quickly by concentrating voters in cities and ghettos, power that can best be gained by non-assimilation.

Long before European colonialism, Indians saw themselves as individual tribes.  Except for brief periods in colonial times they never viewed themsleves as a blocks to be dealt with as one vast nation.  They fought one another, took lands, enslaved one another and make treaties with one another.  And when the Europeans arrived, they treated and fought with them, mainly on the tribal level.  As we well know, the more technologically advanced Europeans ulitimately prevailed.  We can argue on infinitum about the morality of it all, and pity the plight of the Indian, but it would be a fruitless as condemning the Romans for slaughtering and subjugating the peoples of Germanica, Hibernia or Britania.

My point here is that there are no folk without sin when it comes to competing for lands or natural resources.  Only when considered in the context of modern times have indians or other indigenous folk have been
the subject of moral consideration.  A uniform yardstick of human rights had not been established at the time of the Pilgrims, Conquistadors or Puritans, in spite of available Biblical references.  First dibs on land only gave the new migrant the option of buying off the first inhabitants instead of engaging in costly warfare.  Warfare against indigenous
inhabitants is considered immoral today, but back then it was treated as following one's manifest destiny.

P.s. Pilgrims and Puritans did engage in legal land transactions with the indians.  The English traded goods to the indians for land from the beginning, so unlike the illegal immigrants of today, they had some legitimacy as inhabitants.  The indians thus embued the English immigrants with a form of citizenship.

Name: charles

Date: 12 Sep 2006 01:12:22      

Comment: If they come here and use our school systems, hospitals,etc..., and don't pay taxes, why should we keep paying taxes. If anyone gets to stop paying taxes it should be us, the ones who have been paying and paying and paying! Don't tell me it's not true, I hand out 31 paychecks to illegal,s every week. They get arrested for DUI, it's OK, tommorrow they are someone else. The police are sick and tired of the paperwork so they just let them go. What has happened to this country, it's time to stand up and make your voice heard.

Name: Christen

Date: 11 Sep 2006 18:39:12     

Comment: My problem is that I desire a job here in California and everyone says that THEY (the illegals) will do the jobs that legal citizens won't. I will do whatever they will and be proud of it and speak ENGLISH in the process. So, where is my job?

Name: John

Date: 11 Sep 2006 16:21:49       

Comment: You're an itiot and idiots like you are the ones hurting our country. One phrase says it all about illigal aliens ( they are not imigrants ). ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL. They broke the law and continue to break it every day they are here. They are CRIMINALS period.

Name: Sheryl

Date: 11 Sep 2006 13:57:15       

Comment: I appreciate your website. I just wanted to say that a part of the problem is that we have let inaccurate language define this issue. It's not about immigration (which is legal), it's about entering the country illegally or unlawfully. Newspapers and the government have been the worst perpetrators in refusing to make the distinction.

Name: Don

Date: 11 Sep 2006 08:09:34       

Comment: To keep the Mexican border open VOTE REPUBLICAN in November.

Name: joe

Date: 9 Sep 2006 14:52:50      

Comment: Enjoyed visiting. I may not agree/disagree with all that is there, I did like it!. Keep up the work!

Name: A soldier  fighting for your rights

Date: 9 Sep 2006 22:01:11      

Comment: I am an active duty member of the armed services. I have been to Iraq twice and lost very close friends defending your right to be missed guided. Do not tell me that you are saying that I am fighting for the rights of someone that illegally came into our country. Why would you they think that it is alright for them to rally on OUR streets in OUR country to give themselves the right to be here ILLEGALLY. Do not tell me that my friends died so you could have your 15 minutes of fame saving the liberties of some person that should of never been here. What if I came into your house illegally and then said that I was never going to leave. I watched your TV, on your couch and ate all your food but every time you went to kick me out of your house I said that I washed your car, ,mowed your lawn so it is okay for me to be inside your house. WHat gives me the right to do that and what gives illegal immigrants the right to do that in our own backyard? I am leaving to ! go defend your rights again, please do not tell my child that his daddy died defending the rights of a person that should of never been here to begin with. I am defending your rights.

Name: anonymous

Date: 9 Sep 2006 14:50:40      

Comment: I keep reading and hearing from people about American Indians being here first and the settlers not having green cards, etc. True! The largest tribe on the East coast numbered about 30, 000 or so.They tried but they could not defeat the immigrants. They were wiped out by the weapons and the diseases that the settlers brought with them. They lost what they had because they could not withstand the onslaught. The same thing goes for the U.S. Illegals bring diseases and weapons.If we do not stop them while we can, America,as we know her, will be lost to us.We MUSTA soldier fighting for you rightsfighting for you rightsfighting for you rights contol of our borders. And to people who maintain that we must have open borders, and since most illigals are from Mexico, lets annex Mexico. No more border problems!.

Name: Susan

Date: 9 Sep 2006 10:06:00      

Comment: I think it is unfair that one bad apple should spoil the whole bunch. Not all illegal aliens are bad, or a hindrance on the growth either economically or otherwise of this country. If you were to take a close look at the scenario, you would find that all these countries that you find their people migrating to the USA are what you all third world countries, which are incapable of rejuvinating themselves. Wonder why, they are losing all their viable resources to immigration. All they are then left with are the incapable bodies who are either physically or mentally, or just unwilling to try to make life batter for themselves. The USA is collecting the cream of the crop of those other countries, and due to the lack of support, and encouragement that they recieve once they get over here, their lives instead of being better then turns out worse for them, what is the excuse for The land of the brave, and home of the free not being exactly that? Why is it that would be so! barave as to make such an endeavor as to try to cross the borders, from all aspects of the world, successfully make it through the "eye of a needle" we call the immigration system, by whatever means they found, and be opressed. Everyone is looking to live the American Dream, and we have come a long way from racism, and prejudice so lets not backlog, and behave as if the American dream was only made for those entities born in the USA. thanks for your time, Hopeful African Queen.

Name: jennifer

Date: 8 Sep 2006 22:13:22     

Comment: i have a lot to say about the immigration deal.im a hispanic female and proud of it.the reason hispanic men and women come to the "united states" is to work because the people  such as the "white aliens the black aliens do not want to work in there country. so of course someone has to do there job and thats what were here for.the "white" people are to scared to get there hands and clothes dirty to work in the oil feild so they get them easy jobs the blacks are way to lazy they take advantage of welfare so they no they dont have to work they have it mada
and the hispanics dont care what kind of job they have as long as they get paid so what problem do you see.really all of this mess is discrimanation and thats how i see it.in this case every mexican resturant that is here in the u.s. should have big lettered signs that say"NO WHITE ALEINS WELCOME"THATS HOW IT SHOULD BE.and if anyone can remember united states once belonged to mexico but as u no no one remembers that. but it doesnt matter to me whats going on and whats being said about hispanics because my family isnt going anywhere.i just thought i
would put my two cents in since everyone else is.so i would be gladly to hear back from you.

Name: Jeremy

Date: 6 Sep 2006 18:48:46    

Comment: This is just a joke. We have illegal aliens in OUR country preaching for there rights. For one, I do not believe that illegal immigrants have any rights. Our rights are afforded to us by the constitution. The constitution only affects citizen's of our country. Therefor they have no rights. Yes my family are immigrants. We came here from Ireland because this is the land of opportunity. One reason this is the land of opportunity is that we have laws we abide by. My ancestors came from Ireland the right way and became citizens. We have become productive members of society. These Illegal immigrants not only come here illegally, but raise crime rates in their communities and blatently disrespect our country. Just the other day at a federal post office a group of protestors lowered the American flag and stomped on it. They then proceeded to raise the mexican flag as a replacement. This is truly a sad day in America when we allow this to happen. Bush's policy is a joke. ! My son is now in private school so he can not have his education diminished by the lowered standard that has been caused by illegal aliens being enrolled into public schools. How does this happen? How do illegal immigrants enroll into a public school? Who do we not make them provide their w2's to the school to prove that they are tax payers? When we will stand up for ourselves and deport these illegals? When are we going to start up holding the laws. Free enterprise does allow businesses to operate there businesses as they see fit. That is why we have multinational corporations. They can open facilities in other countries and have them provide work from there. But, letting anyone into our country that businesses want to hire is a horrific idea. There are national security issues on top of social issues. We do not live in a socialist economy. This is a mixed economy. We should not provide illegals with social programs including health care. I could go all day long, however I! am just going to tell one last story. A young girl from a poor family in my town needed a heart transplant. Her family had a program that could not pay for it. They denied her request for the heart transplant. This is a citizen that our social programs would not help. The same month a town away an illegal immigrant was arrested for raping a teenage girl. He had already been deported once before. He was in jail and needed a heart transplant. Guess who got his heart transplant from a social program. God help the country that I love.

Oh yeah, They took my job

Name: Roxi

Date: 6 Sep 2006 18:56:44    

Comment: I apologize this is not a report submission. I simply wanted to add my comment to your answer to the last FAQ . . . where the person said: "I looked at the headlines of your immigration report; I disagree with you, and do not want to waste my time reading your arguments." If that person does not even take the time to read your arguments, how can he/she give an opinion only on "headlines"? Unbelievable!!! I think you are RIGHT on Target !!! Thanks for your great reports!!!

Name: George

Date: 10 Sep 2006 14:49:51       

Comment: Jennifer,

Your contention that the United States belonged to Mexico is such a travesty of American history as to be laughable. Like it or not, much of territorty that we know as the U.S. today was never held by Mexico, but was formerly French and English territory. As a matter of fact that most of the territory claimed by Mexico and ceded to the U.S. was never occupied by Hispanics, making any claim very weak. Lastly, what's your point? The lands that you speak of are internationally recognized as belonging to the U.S. and that is not subject to an international legal contest at this time. I suggest any effort to dispute that fact would have to be backed up by military actions, something that Mexico could not sustain without agressive opposition and ultimate defeat. Mexico and Mexican nationals have no more valid claim to U.S. territory today than the Italians have to the lands that they conquered under the Roman empire.

One more thing, Jennifer, the only things that differentiate this place from any other geographical location on a map is its Constitution, its internationally recognized boundaries and its laws. Illegal immigrants apparently do not recognize the last two and do not understand the first. International law gives every nation sovereign power over its inhabitants, regardless of the legality of their presence within its boundaries. That means that the U.S. has the right for self-determination within the international community, which includes Mexico, the right to direct policy over immigration and hence the right to evict those who violate its laws. Unless Mexico and its nationals respect U.S. borders and laws, there cannot be friendship between the peoples of these two countries, regardless of the pretension of our governments.

Name: Dustin

Date: 15 Sep 2006 13:44:36      

Comment: I don't believe the points of view on the site are in the best interst for America and American citizens. I definately favor the views on citizenforasecureborder.org I will outline the reasons why I feel this way. Legal immigration is good for the country if it is done in a proper process and a certain limited number per year. The United States can not afford to be the worlds welfare system and act like a sponge and absord the world poverty. Problems with mass illegal immigration:

 -Language: Most illegal immigrants basically isolate themselves in their own community and refuse to or don't even attempt to learn the local language, English. If you don't believe me visit some cities in the southwestn part of the county.

-Employment: I understand that illegal immigrants do job "Americans won't or can't get paid enough to do" but with million in the country and more coming they basically will take jobs that Americans or people with proper work visa will want to do but won't be able to because of illegal workers working for lower wages with no benefits.

Nationalism: Mass illegal immigration has and will continue (unless contained) to damage a sense of community and nationality. Mass Culture Shock.

Welfare: Illegal immigrants ultimately put a heavy strain on social welfare systems, schools, hospitals, social services. If there are 10 to 15 million here and more coming you got to view even if half of them were using the welfare system in some way see the view that this is 10s upon 10s or who know how many millions of tax payer and government money annually. Sales taxes do not come close to covering this.

Overpopulation: Mass illegal or legal immigration will create overpopulation in some areas. In certain cases mass illegal or legal immigration it can deplete the country of orgin of badly needed skills or workers. Immigrants can "Swamp" a local population which is related to birth rate realative to nationals. (Which is part of the reason why I believe the 14th amendment need to be modified to modern day standards or even completely earsed by congress and the state legislator) This is not about race it is about preserving America. Here are some problems mass illegal immigration or uncontroled immgration has or can contribute to. Unemployment, crime, possible harm to the environment in certain areas and deterioration of public education.

Name: Aquimar

Date: 14 Sep 2006 08:52:06      

Comment: I think what you are doing is bad for America and for Americians. There is nothing you can say or do to make me change to your way of thinking. I have been involved with Illegals for far to long and it is time for all of them to go home. Just had to let you know.

Name: Aquimar

Date: 14 Sep 2006 05:14:40      

Comment: the organizations and powers supporting this country should be aware of paranoia pos 9/11.led by ufanistic,faschistic organizations under the agument of terror under the argument of closing the border to potencial terrorrist,people are shooting border crossers whose only crime was to flee from social/economic opression.none of the terrorrist responsible for the 9/11 tragedy crossed the mexican border into the US,they flew confortably in.

Name: Jen

Date: 12 Sep 2006 20:46:47      

Comment: I would like to say that I am a whie female and I have a mexican boyfriend and we have a beautiful son together...And I think that they should open the border and just make mexico apart of the United States..If any one remembers before 9-11.. Bush and Fox(Mexico's president)..Agreed to open the border.But because 9-11 happened they stopped it..Thats where the other illegals were comming from to get here..My boyfriend may not be legal but he works his butt off..He works with a tax ID.And he pays his tax's..Mexicans come over for work, and I think they should be aloud because like alot of people on here said they do the jobs that the whites and blacks won't do...Alot of whites and blacks have nothing wrong with them and are able to work..But beause they are to lazy they get SSI And SS..And why because they get drunk to much or do to much drugs..The ones who are making a fuss about this most of them are the ones who are on SSI and all the other things..And people are fussin about Mexicans taking their jobs and if the people would pay more they might do that work..Well stop the fussin because knowin well aint no one going to pick peaches and oranges and all the other stuff for no 6 bucks an hour.. If the Mexicans wan! t to work and get paid that let them you dont have to..Why would the companies wanna pay americans 10 12 bucks and hour when they can pay the mexicans less..Its not right but hey its what they can get..I am for letting them come..Yeah the legal why..I think they ones that are here should be able to stay and work and show that they want to be here and live like an American.

Name: Donna

Date: 16 Sep 2006 17:53:46      

Comment: I find that most americans have their heads buried in the sand in regards to illegal imigration. The illegals are smarter than we give them credit for. Conspiracy is not so far fetched. When I hear comments from the illegal community that things are working underground, I know they mean more than tunnels. Comments recently made by Mexico's new President states he is looking at Texas as a new source of income, beware!!. California has already been taken over. I get that non english speaking attitude in my face all day long. I will not retire in my home state. I can't live down the street from a house with 4 generations living in it. The traffic and cars is unbelievable. City codes have complied with this standard of living. There is no more single family dwelling. Not for middle class America anyway. I could go on and on about how the fabric of this nation has changed.

Name: Dominick

Date: 17 Sep 2006 04:05:48      

Comment: This morning another hit and run causing the death of 2 people happened in Florida. The driver and 3 passengers of the running vehicle were seen leaving their stolen car and being picked up by another car. Police, with the help of tips, arrested 10 illegal immigrants for the hit and run and they found multiple stolen cars and parts and drugs at the location of the arrest. The Americans in the other car suffered critical injuries and have to have the jaws of life remove them from their car. There is a rash of this happening in Florida. This time the police got lucky and caught the people. Unfortuantely, most crimes commited by illegals can't be tracked, because there is no record of these people. Even if only 1 out of 100 illegal immigrants commit violent crime, they are all criminals - crossing a border illegally is a crime - and should all be sent back to their countries. The only reason why this isn't happening is because of the Hispanic vote. Our politicians are afraid to actually do something, because they might lose the vote. When a 7-11 clerk can identify illegal immigrants because they are looking to buy beer without id, and the police can't, or won't, we are all in bad shape. Also, why should we allow these illegals to get away with not paying taxes for all the years they were here? I have to pay taxes, why shouldn't they. If they do pass a law pardoning current illegals, I hope they include a large tax penalty on these thousands of people. Here's an idea. Let's deport all the illegals and give thier jobs to American homeless people. I am pretty sure a homeless American will do the job that an illegal has, no matter what it is. Using the money from the job they can move into the apartment the illegals had. Also, let's fine the owner of the property who rented to the illegals, and the company who they worked for and fine them, and give this money to the homeless American put in their place to get started.My family is from Italy and they migrated back in the 1920's. The difference is, they did it legally and learned how to speak English.

Name: Rogere

Date: 17 Sep 2006 10:08:09      

Comment: I strongly disagree with your viewpoint and will not support it. We do not live in a perfect world therefore you "pie in the sky" outlook is dangerous and foolhearty. We need to enforce the laws about hiring illegal aliens already on our books! If the supply of work and benefits is cut effectively cut off we will not have to worry about rounding up all the illegals..... they will leave themselves. That is the answer. Anything less slaps every legal immigrant that has ever legally come to our country in the face.

Name: cc

Date: 15 Sep 2006 03:38:01      

Comment: i never seen anyting better......

Name: Adalberto

Date: 17 Sep 2006 09:24:47      

Comment: I think you are right. The first the Government should do is remove all the Police,F.B.I. and all the different Law-Enforcement Agents. We can be a Libertarian Country if we want. Most Countries in the World collect minimal Taxes or none. The less Taxes, the less Government. I think 1 of the first steps in starting a Libertarian Country is to hang every Democrat and Socialist Leader,kill the head , and the body will follow . Pease do all you can to convince everyone that we do not have to follow the rules, these rules are ALL man made.

Name: Paul

Date: 17 Sep 2006 20:37:29      

Comment: YES I HAVE A PROBLEM. SEE WHERE I WORK AT HAVE ALOT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO DO I CALL OR TELL THIS TO WITHOUT LOOSING MY JOB.

Name: anonymous

Date: 17 Sep 2006 12:40:22      

Comment: The only thing I agree with you on is the "Stop the family immigration" process. The other site is where we should be: Send all illegals, and their families, home. They broke the law to come. That includes their children, born here, as anchor babies have become the problem. The cost of education is out of control because of them. And--these families do not assimilate--they demand we teach them Spanish in school, vs. immersing in English. They have "Little Mexico" in every town they live in, vs. assimilation. They take jobs from people who will do them here. And yes---it is possible to SEND THEM ALL HOME. After all, if we can go outer space and to the moon, we can do this. It's a matter of how.....

Name: Ania

Date: 20 Sep 2006 16:19:58      

Comment: I agree with your thinking compleatly. Poland should introduce visas or $400 fee for Americans. I don't understand why we didn't do it yet. When I applied for my first visa in Warsaw, I spent the entire day in front of the gate, and I have to go to Caadian Embassy next dore to use bathroom because they will not let me in! This is just humiliating. Why our country bothers to help Americans in Iraq and Afganistan even though they almost never mention about this help in their speaches. Instead of being thankful a little bit to us they humiliate us with the visa requirement and other stuff. I hope that our country will finally wake up and see what some of the countries in the world already see and talk about....

Name: Jennifer

Date: 22 Sep 2006 06:59:42      

Comment: I would say that you should let the illegal immagrants come to the united states for the fact if they have kids I say that they have the right to. I vote for them to be here so that they could get fixed. I say that only the ones that have kids should.

Name: anonymous, Pamela

Date: 22 Sep 2006 11:06:09      

Comment: You are wrong. There should NEVER be a "path to citizenship" (can you say AMNESTY??) for a law breaker. If a business can't afford to pay Americans a living wage then I am glad to see them go under.

Name: Ania

Date: 19 Sep 2006 20:17:24      

Comment: After reading most of the comments and thinking about the whole immigration problem, I start to understand what Americans feel. I am a legal immigrant invited to this country by one of the universities in Florida and I agree that illegal immigration is bad and not fair to those who had to pay a lot of money for their visas or green cards (I paid $ 10000 to my attorney and INS). I also think that people who are coming here (legally or not) should learn English - I did it and I wanted to because I respect this country and anyway I can't imagine how you can not learn the language of the country that you are living in. I think that every immigrant applying for green card or citizenship should pass English test. I am paying all the taxes and fees for rent and utilities, I love the traditions of this country and most of my friends are Americans. Do I deserve to be American in the future? I hope so. But, I also believe (looking at some of my friends who came here legally! ) that the immigration law should be changed to enable some people (educated or skilled) to come legally to US and it should allow all the dependants of H1B visa workers (who are most of the time highly educated) to work here (many of them work anyway, many pay their taxes, they do that because they can't afford to site at hope and wait for their husband's or wife's paycheck - they will go crazy anyway after several years of not doing anything). Many Europeans, like me, just can't stand the rules that we have to follow (but most of us do) and I think that many are unrealistic and unfair. Let's not forget that there are other people in addition to Mexicans coming to this country illegally. I see it in Florida every day and I don't like it. I don't think that Cubans should have special immigration treatment. In my opinion this special treatment encourages them not to change anything in their own country - what for; they can swim to the coast and stay here. Is that fair to other immigrants? I don't think so. I am for border enforcement to stop illegal immigration (with Mexico and Cuba), legalization of the hard working people who are already in this country for at least 5 years and pay taxes or are willing to pay back the taxes, deportation of those who committed serious crimes, English should be the only language that is used on every document in this country - in offices, stores etc., the immigration numbers should not be increased (mass immigration is not good because it will increase population to much), every immigrant should pass the test of English before legalization, immigration should be selective because the more educated people you get the more they will do for this country but people will lower education but skilled should be allowed too, family immigration should be stopped (only husbands or wives and kids should be allowed to come) farther family members can always visit on tourist visas (yes, I miss my mom, but we see each other every year). I believe that Americans and the American government will make the right decision. Something must change and I believe that if America is the true immigrant nation than they will show their real face by doing something for immigrants - legal and illegal because illegal immigration is not the only problem here.

Name: Annymous

Date: 27 Sep 2006 22:22:35      

Comment: I like many of your ideas. You seem like very reasonable person.

Name: Michael

Date: 27 Sep 2006 01:34:11      

Comment: One scenario you did not touch is that maybe our President and his men have thought out the scenarios and that their goal is one hidden behind the smoke screen of incompetence. Maybe? Could our dear Bushy and his fellow men prosper somehow from looking like idiots? Hm. Of course, the only problem with that scenario is the lack of proof that Bush or any of men can strategize and plan ahead. One more thing. If you ever got the chance, a good scenario on how Bush and his family have continued being rich with the oil business (ownerships, partnerships, associations, etc.) and putting it side-by-side to his quote as saying "Americans are addicted to oil." might finally show Americans Bush's oil-lord (comparable to drug-lord) involvment. Or maybe I have an overactive imagination? It would be good to read from a mind that can put the words down clearly and simply. Anyway, great stuff - The unbiased tempo you've kept up per article (although your article subjects are biased towards immigration and Iraq, which is fair enough) is absolutely wonderful.

Name: John

Date: 26 Sep 2006 05:39:37      

Comment: 1961, at 15 years old I went to live in Chicago from rual Indiana. My first experience with group hostility was with 'Rican students just off the school grounds. At 16 I went into the unskilled work place. A welcoming change from the discord of school. In 5 years I was working as a skilled auto repairman and found my place in that line of work. After 10 years in sheltered,private employment (antiques), I went out into the general workplace. While I was out, the third world had entered the trade, along with descending wages and discord in the workplace. In 40 years I saw a first class American city deteriorate into mostly a third world slum. Importing the third world is a very efficent way of becoming the third world. I thankfully now live in rural Indiana. If I want to see the third world I use the TV or drive to a city. Immmigration = decay and delusion, then poverty. Who must be reminded that we were overpopulated 40 years ago ?

Name: Carlos

Date: 25 Sep 2006 16:26:46      

Comment: As long as W/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Rove are in control and the GOP controls the Congress and the Supreme court, we will remain mired in Iraq. Period. These decision-makers do not listen to reason and completely disregard cold facts. Their globalist-corporate dogma sways their "thought" processes. We are already building 14 military bases all over Iraq! That is where the so-called "reconstruction" funds have been invested. Why? To control regional and international access to oil. Period. We will now have a permanent base in the Middle East. So bolstering and subsidizing Israel and perpetuating the Middle Eastern state of "cold war" in the region against the surrounding militarized Arab states in the future may become unnecessary. Once firmly planted in "garrison" Iraq we will be the military presence in the region that all comers will have to deal with. Israel will be a thing of the past. We will be the new Israel in the region. And Iran and Syria are next... After all we are the new Roman Empire and people had better get used to it if W's cabal has its way. The publicly "stated" and ever-shifting rationales for invading Iraq have been exposed as absolute falsehoods. a) No Yellow cake from Nigeria or aluminum tubes for Nukes (Ergo, no WMD's). b) No simple overthrow of Saddam. We've imprisoned the man. So why are we still there? c) No democracy in Iraq. Historian Charles Beard (The Rise of American Civilization) tells us that democracy is a grass-roots movement based on pre-existing economic rights and private property. It cannot be imposed from the top. That is a dictatorship. We picked their candidates and their parties and backed the eventual "winners." Civil war broke out. Hmm. Wonder why? The Iraqis would have seen us as "liberators" had we left the day after Saddam's statue was toppled--at the earliest--and the day he was captured at the latest. The rest is window dressing. Iraq is now our oil colony. The Iraqi insurgents--as happened to the French in Algeria and in VietNam and then to us in VietNam--are using any and all guerrilla tactics, including suicide bombings to get us out. The war ends when we leave. Unconditionally. Period. It's their land. The wicked witch (Saddam) is dead. Let's kick our heels and come back to Kansas... However, George Orwell in 1984 told us there'd be days like this.

Name: anonymous, junk yard dog

Date: 25 Sep 2006 08:24:18      

Comment: your Iraq solution, tremendous! It doesn't say a think, reminds me of Reid or Kennedy. Empty talk. Isn't it great to be able to express your opinion in our society?

Name: anonymous, Ray

Date: 25 Sep 2006 02:04:55      

Comment: I would hate to be in a lifeboat with you that holds livable space and supplies for 50 people while there were 100 people in the water wanting to get aboard.

Name: Damian

Date: 24 Sep 2006 14:09:18      

Comment: Problem Henry, is that we have to start with where we are, not from where we'd like to be. Like your ideas though.

Name: monica

Date: 23 Sep 2006 12:28:38      

Comment: you know we are in america and for me being an american mexican i am disgusted with this imagrants because i see it as my family had to do it the right way these boarder people need to do it right as well because you see the people waiting to do it right and these people want to come in and cut i dont think so they just want to come and take over and thats not going to happen because if u read your bible it tells you that he or she that comes through the back door is not welcome but if they should come from the front door is welcome and these that came through the back door is not wecome

Name: lexxie

Date: 23 Sep 2006 19:36:01      

Comment: I WOULD LOVE TO FIND OUT WHAT POSTION I CAN TAKE AGAINST THIS- WE HAVE RECENTLY BOUGHT A HOME 6 MONTHS AGO IN N.C. TO FIND LAST WEEK WE HAVE NEW NEIGHBORS 5 GROWN UPS 6 CHILDREN IN A 2 B.D. 1 BATH. THEY ARE OF SOME TYPE OF MEXICAN DESENT.CANNOT SPEAK ANY ENGLISH. OUR QUITE NIEGHBORHOOD WHICH RESPECTS EACH OTHERS BOUNDARIES ARE VIOLATED. THEY HAVE NO MANNERS WITH THEM IN AND OUT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT. 6-8 CARS IT IS UNBLEIVEABLE I DO KNOW EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO A BETTER LIFE BUT WHEN THEY COME AND DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE JUST DOESNT SEEM TO BE VERY AMERICAN NOW DOES IT. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO TO VOTE FOR AND WHAT PARTY TO VOTE FOR TO ENFORCE THESE LAWS.

Name: anonymous, Scott

Date: 22 Sep 2006 17:21:52      

Comment: As an Americian I have a say in how I will be governed. And I have no desire to have our country oppened up to unlimited immigration. Illegal immigrants are taking jobs Americians will do, they exsist in an underground economy, and use social recources that Americians need. I'm sorry but I feel they must go back home and build their better future there.

Name: julio

Date: 22 Sep 2006 11:55:34      

Comment: well i think your plans sound reasonable without a doubt and would like ask a you question. i am one of the millions that need help. listen to this, i was brought here to the US by my dad in 1985...he brought us here legally and while my mother and brother and i were waiting for our residency cards my dad died. i was 8 years old when that happened and our application "died" when he did, and our permits expired and we couldnt renew them. so basically the system left us screwed. now we dont know what our status is here in the states... i graduated from high school with honors and i work for farmers insurance now, i still cant get a california drivers license. i have a social security number that is valid and i dont know what to do, what do you think we can do?

Name: ANONYMOUS, HENRY

Date: 22 Sep 2006 11:33:51      

Comment: You have to be kidding with this? Do you do drugs?? I suppose we should just stop having any laws at all! The sad part is there are probably other whacko's out there that will agree with you!

Name: Lois

Date: 18 Sep 2006 08:47:35      

Comment: I agree with most of your article. I'm sure I am in the minority of public opinion as I know many immigrant families where both husband and wife work as many hrs as they can, support their family, pay for rent, utilities the same as we do. They avoid any interaction with government services or public services. Pay their way and just want a better life including a decent car and a house. In other words, they keep a very low profile. It worries me and breaks my heart to hear and read so much how politicians and many Americans are being so hard and unfair. How many of these 'Americans' are descended from Native American Indians? My own grandparents came here from England, France and Ireland. The Latinos that are here illegally should be given a path to citizenship! Perhaps given a choice a lot would rather keep their own country's status and would return to their country of birth. Afterall, don't many people return to Eastern countrys after living and working in America? Your suggestions are right on target!

Name: Ronda

Date: 28 Sep 2006 15:44:41      

Comment: First, let me say that I am not against legal immigration. It is an intergral part of what has made America a great country. What I am against, is someone coming into my country illegally and demanding the same rights that I have simply because they are here. I do not believe they should have any of the rights of a citizen if they do not respect our country enough to enter legally. Alot of our laws are obsolete (such as a child born here becomes a citizen,that should not happen unless the parents are citizens or in the process of becoming a citizen) and need to be changed. I live in Alabama. The crime rate is up due to illegals committing hit and runs, purse snatchings, gang fights etc. My tax dollars are footing the bill for the additional police needed. The illegals pay no taxes, they work for cash, they speak no english and they have no desire to. I would love to see the all people that pick them up and employ them arrested. We need to take away anything that would draw s! omeone here illegally such as food stamps,welfare, soicial security and disability. Those benefits should only go to American citizens, period. No exceptions. You have some interesting ideas, I will visit again and read more. Thanks for the opportunity to vent my frustrations.

Name: Ethan

Date: 28 Sep 2006 11:23:34      

Comment: I enjoyed your how to get out of Iraq without leaving. If you review the history of the Islamic conquest of Persia, you will find that the method you describe was exactly the method of conquest—they would invade, set up military camps near the major city and wait a couple of generations until the populace got sick of paying the jizura tax and converted to Islam—in short they stayed indefinitely. Several standard history texts of the history of the Arabic peoples tell this story.

Name: Art

Date: 27 Sep 2006 22:25:16      

Comment: This almost sounds like a Karl Rove instruction manual. There can be no amnesty and that means no path to citizenship. That means deporting en masse or through attrition. No amount of reasoning or 'brotherly love' or 'we gotta do something for them' will change that in the end. I don't find going into all my counter arguments as your rule is what you understand, but I find you less of a voice than more of a reason. It comes down to one premise: No matter how much you dummy down Americans you don't have to be a rocket scientist to feel the effects of how your government is screwing you. If you think the common man is too stupid to rise up against this when the law fails, then you will get your 'enlightened reason' results.

Name: Rudolf

Date: 28 Sep 2006 18:47:15      

Comment: Mr.Kowalczyk I can't agree more with your article I used to live i Latin Amerika and I know the powerty that is there.The same is in USA some areas for exsaple Liberty City Miami or Opa Locka or L:ittle Haity or Little Havana ,still there are lot of people that dont like to see this situation,like Cuban that are all days feedet with anti Castro propaganda taht has nathing to do with rumpant corruption ,tah same is i Latin America for this reason there is gerilla movment in Colombia because peple live worst than animals .Today some people protested in Santiago de Chile and some woomen were trying kilthemself becaose they can't affort cost of basic artickles that they need for theirs families .The same is now happenig in eastern Europe m also in Poland etc. corrupt goverment sell everything that was bild before a few corupt individuals take advantagues of poor population.Now it is going to hapen after Montenegro in Bulgaria and Rumania,big coutry need this coutry to! take all the value / factories,land / to improof theyir economy.With the so called privatization they indirectly likvidate industries and agricalche and after they start they export to this countries this vay they help themself a put another country and total poverty.This happened in Slovakia with Austria sincerely Rudolf About email addres you know that everithing this is controled ba us goverment because private company may get order to give all the informomation to the goverment this is rool that only this vay they may make money with internet

Name: Dustin

Date: 28 Sep 2006 23:20:27      

Comment: I read your report on your web page. I will write some of my comments or views of certain areas of your report. You think legislators should appologize. Instead of apolgizing legislators and other government officials need to hold the countries of orgin accountable for putting these people in the position to illegally immigrate, esentially exporting their either underskilled or poverty striken people. They should also tally up a bill a rough estimate for such things as social services including foodstamp and WIC, Schooling, Hospital Bills, and any other sort of government funded welfare, ask them to pay up. Illegal immigrants broke a federal law by coming to the U.S. illegally, what about the ones that have broken other laws such as working illegally (under the table not paying taxes), or the ones who have forged documents (I have heard personally of a guy that came here from El Salvador forged documents works under two names in two jobs) Now if you or me did that we would get prison time, what about the ones that have committed other crimes. You just want them to pay a fine to get a worker permit or even citizenship. Also illegal immigrants even if they were gonna apply for citizenship need to assimilate learn English, learn how American society is not come here illegally (because they know if they get in there will be no consequences) and think they have just moved to another town with better benefits. "There is no evidence that the influx comprimises the security ot the nation" This was a head line in one of the sections. Tell that to the family of the cop that got shot in the back of the head in Texas by an illegal immigrant who was already deported for a sex crime with a minor, tell that to the DEA who on a daily basis deals with drug trafficing and all that comes with it, tell that to border patrol agents who have been shot at or had rocks thrown at them, tell that to authorities who find tunnels used to transport massive amounts or drugs and who knows what else. (Look I know most illegal immigrants are not intentional criminals except when they are coming to the U.S.) But all the things I listed give more than enough reason to make ("Border protection the holy cow of the immigration agenda") After they get the border under control they can adress the illegal immigrants that are already here. Another headline "The House Bill may effectively resolve the problem of illegal immigration" My response If prices increased a little bit on produce people would have to pay if they want the product. As to the farmer if they can't get enough workers either citizens or people with proper work visas maybe they will have to cut into their profits, or invent new equipment, the same for any other industry that might be affected. Neccessity is the mother of invention. I am not an economist or politician but I can understand the many problems illegal immigration in mass numbers can bring to the country economically and in terms of mass culture shock, that is why I view this issue the way I view it. I can understand why you have some of your points of view. The issue of illegal immigration including the people that are already in the U.S. is a complex issue that must be dealt with in a process, it should begin with stopping as much as humanly possible the continuous flow of illegal immigrants. That is my view and it can not be changed by why the situation has got the way it is. It was, is, and has become a big problem and will continue unless certain actions are taken. I don't mean any disrespect towdards you site or the plans you have laid out for this issue. Some of your views and some views of other will have to work together to get this situation under the control of the government.

Name: devriy

Date: 28 Sep 2006 18:56:03      

Comment: I was reading at your essay and amazed that one can actually think about the solution of our bad immigration law instead of being anti or the other way around. You did a good job and this has been answered all my questions so far... May we become a great united of nation that we always proud of..

Name: James

Date: 28 Sep 2006 18:44:45      

Comment: You ask if we can stop this invasion,I say yes.All it would take is a President with a set of stones to lock down the border,shoot anyone who approaches it illegally,fine the companies that hire them or confiscate the companies of repeat offenders.Cut off all WELFARE to illegal parents of anchor babies,send the parents home,if the children were born here,put them in state care at the parents expense.If they can't make the payment,send the kid home to Mexico.After all they all think Mexico is so great,then they can all go back.I'll personally pay forters to contribute to pay for more.

Name: david

Date: 29 Sep 2006 12:27:52      

Comment: I am glad to see someone who has a realistic approach to solving the immigration mess in this great place we call the USA. You might have seen articles written all over the country in papers and a few TV spots about my stand against the recent ICE raids in our community and more specifically for me...in my mobile home park. I was so distraught that I flew the United States flag upside down and at half mast for about a week in protest. Half mast because I felt that the government had killed my hard work of 15 years at building a community for workers to live who worked at the local chicken processing plant as well as killed the dream of becoming members of our country for the dozens who had lived in my mobile home park for 6, 8, and even 10 years. The flag was flown upside down as a sign of distress for life and property as I found on the United states flag code upon doing a search on the internet. Most definitely my life has been in much distress as well as unless I can come up with some drastic help soon, my property will soon be lost. I'm in complete agreement with you on the United States government should offer an apology to all affected by this mess that has been created and I think that all people who have been here for over 5 years with clean (or nearly so) police records should be allowed to stay and get on the bottom of the immigration list but be issued workers permits so that they can live in this country and work and obtain drivers licenses. A simple speeding ticket I don't feel is valid enough for someone to be deported, but numerous DUI's or drug convictions, I say send the person back home. Persons who have been here for 2-5 years, I feel they should be allowed to get work permits for 2 years in order for them to plan to be able to get back home and have time to save some money for their readjustment into their countries society. Persons who have been here less than 2 years, I feel should have to go back. Many have ran across the border in hopes of a amnesty and haven't had time for the US to really "get to know them". I feel that anyone who is a criminal would have been found out within 5 years by our law enforcement and would have a record of some sort. One MAJOR thing that I feel needs to be changed on the application for citizenship would be for extensive classes in our CULTURE would need to be studied and passed. My biggest problem as a landlord and as a US citizen with the Hispanics is their uncleanliness and abuse of alcohol. I've gotten so annoyed that instead of constantly picking up the bottles I find thrown out in my parks, that I simply mow them up although I cringe every time I do for fear that some child might cut their foot on the glass, but there's just hundreds of them thrown out and I can't be there to police the people all the time. They need cultural education. Well, this is just my idea of what immigration reform should be. Similar to yours but a compassionate realistic response that I feel would not make all parties on either side be happy, but would probably make the majority of people happy.

Name: meriam

Date: 01 Oct 2006 17:26:40      

Comment: I want to more information about illegal immigrant because I am an illegal immigrant here contributing to the economy of the United States by paying taxes.

Name: Ted

Date: 02 Oct 2006 05:44:53      

Comment: US should have never been in Iraq in the first place. Those people were killing each other for centuries. The same could be said for African Tribes. US never took action against African countries so why Iraq? Mr.Bush must be held accountable for this. He ignored the intellegenc report where it says Iraq may not have WMD. He ignored the weapons inspectors and ordered them out. Mr.Bush had something else in mind when he choose to invade Iraq. Only Mr.Bush can answer as to why he did what he did. Those honest American troops should have been out of Iraq a long time ago. Many would say this invasion had to do with oil. Some would say religion. I say it's none of the above. It is pure ignorance on the part of the President of the United States of America. The the only super wanting dominance by using brute force and ignorance to acheive it.

Name: Reb

Date: 02 Oct 2006 09:55:53      

Comment: I have just finished reading your article "Will desperation prevail?". I still disagree with you on many points, but do agree on others. I am not a highly educated person nor a politician,but I do know my own mind and I try to think for myself. There is no doubt that immigration helps our country, and some of the illegal aliens ( I still won't call them immigrants ) help our economy by working so cheaply that the businesses that hire them can still get rich while keeping the prices just a little to high. My views on ILLEGAL immigration is just two points: (1) Without illegal aliens working our prices might go higher for a while until people stopped buying products and drove the prices down to a reasonable price. ( That's the principal of Supply and Demand ). Our xcountry has flourished for hundreds of years without the help of illegals and I'm quite sure it will last a few hundred more if the politicians will allow it. (2) They are ILLEGAL. Everyone says we are a country of laws but no one wants to enforce the law against these people. Should we let all our lawbreakers go free ? If not why are these aliens different ? My point is let immigrants, that do it legally, in and welcome them. This is the kind of people we want and need in America. But if they break our laws to come here and break our laws every day they are here and just keep breaking the law, We need to get rid of them. Now to another point you made in your article . I do think you are arrogant. But I also see an intelligence Hidden behind the arrogance. I just see your thinking leading to the premise of " it may destroy the economy if we remove the illegals so, let's just keep them and let them destroy the country, It's easier".

Name: Alex

Date: 02 Oct 2006 16:15:14      

Comment: i think you are a genious.

Name: Philip

Date: 03 Oct 2006 13:47:10      

Comment: Read your article regarding Iraq. My thanks

Name: Sven

Date: 03 Oct 2006 10:43:55      

Comment: A maginificent combination of work!!!  I am a little more faithful that the citizens of this great country do not have their cumulative heads in the sand on these topics.  It is with great shame that I realize the daily loss of motivation by the masses when it comes to upholding and growing our democracy.  Your site is a testament to the
civic minded and a model for all that really care.

Name: Gail

Date: 02 Oct 2006 22:05:14      

Comment: Here in the U.S. we have economic problems.Some people are paid more than they're worth.Too many times unskilled people choose to live off our social services insted of taking low paying jobs,placing a burden on the tax payer.The solution to this is make our social services less eazy to obtain.If a person who is able bodied doesn't want to work,then let them go hungry.If they choose a life of crime,put them in prison.We do not need illeagal immigrants to fill the low pay positions.As a teen I,like many other teens worked as farm laborers.Its how we bought our school cloths,our first cars,and learned good work ethics.There was nothing wrong with it then there is nothing wrong with it now.

Name: Howard

Date: 04 Oct 2006 18:24:58      

Comment: Just ran across your site; sounds like you have some interesting opinion on a lot of subjects I am interested in. In skimming one of your articles on immigration I see that you have some distorted views on Illegal immigration, at least it looks that way to me considering this statement from the article: "every foreigner coming here with an intention to work for a short time or forever, will become an American patriot." I think the majority of the multitudes of illegal aliens protesting in America's streets and violating American laws have no intention of becoming patriots, at least not America patriots.

Name: Louise

Date: 04 Oct 2006 10:03:40      

Comment: Wow! You were so right on.

Name: Brenda

Date: 05 Oct 2006 10:31:48     

Comment: In other words you believe that it is OK to harm a "small percentage" of citizens as long as it benefits the majority of citizens? So if I break in to your house and steal everything you own...it is ok because it will not effect more than one family? What about eminent domain? Some politicians believe that as long as it benefits the "betterment" of the community it is ok to take our place of residence? NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. Sorry, but I do not agree with you on this point. NO ONE is more important than our fellow citizens regardless of race OR income level. Every citizen has the right to be protected under the same Constitution. Every single family that I have come in contact with over the last 5 years has been effected by illegal immigration at some point on several different avenues. Whether it was losing jobs because they are not "bilingual","uninsured" motorists, neighborhood crime...etc. The business owners are the only ones that benefit with profits NOT the taxpayer. The busines pays lower wages and the taxpayer foots the bill for the "low-income" family. Anyone that comes here should prove they will support the peoples they bring while living in the US. However, let us say for arguments sake that more Americans might be a little more sympathic to mass immigration if some concerns were addressed: 1. EMPLOYERS that take on "foreign" born workers should have to supply Healthcare for not only the worker but their "relatives" that they bring with them...NO EXCEPTIONS. That would alleviate taxpayer money for medical expense such as the ER and prenatal care that is SURE to follow. And would ultimately drive down the rising costs of healthcare in this country. Thus, lower the need to additional taxing every year. 2. Immigrants should PAY taxes or PAY for the tuition of their children to attend Public schools that are currently over burdened with non-english speaking parents & children calling for "additional" funding of ESOL. 3. Immigrants should be required to learn ENGLISH before they are employed here. Once again, alleviating the need for the special funding of ESOL. 4. Americans should be given the chance to take the jobs that are open BEFORE they are offered outside the USA. Believe it or not Americans will serve coffee, make beds and yes, roof houses. Americans don't like farm work for several reasons. But, I myself have worked on farms so don't rule that out either with fare wage & benefits. 5. NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO STAY without returning to their homeland and applying, waiting in turn like the law-abiding immigrants. 6. NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CITIZENSHIP WITH ALLEGIENCE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY/FLAG. Let us no forget "sovereignty" and the meaning of government. 7. Driving "permits" should be required that are BONDED for the purpose of compensating the damages caused by traffic accidents and/or violations. 8. If at anytime the "guest" breaks the law (even DUI) they should go straight back to their homeland...."do not pass go, do not collect $200" If other countries flood our country with uneducated and low income "citizens" after breaking the laws...what do you think will happen when they are the majority and allowed to vote? I smell amnesty after amnesty, if not just opening the border for additional migration. Furthermore, any "illegal alien" that crosses our border unauthorized should NOT receive any type of taxpayer benefit...ER's, Public schools or citizenship birthing rights of this country which will allow for the public benefits for "illegal citizens". Mexico will flat turn your butt around and allow you to die before they offer up their ER with non-paying peoples. If it is temporary workers that farmers need..FINE...but, temporary is temporary. Allow them to make their money for a set amount of time and back they go it apply for any type of permanent resident program. Sir, I for one am sick and tired of this issue being labeled as "racist" as this has nothing to do with race. This is about LAWS of this great country that were put in place by the people, for the people and NOT uninvited "guests". I would never think about crossing the border of Mexico, birthing babies every 9 months, sending them to Spanish speaking schools and expect them to be bilingual to accomodate my illegal presence at the expense of their citizens and then DEMAND the same rights of the Mexican citizens! THAT SIR, IS THE REAL REASONS THAT SO MANY AMERICANS ARE AGAINST "MASS IMMIGRATION"!