I will NOT support anything that even slightly smacks of amnesty until the border has been controlled. We did this in 1986 – “comprehensive” immigration reform. We got the amnesty, but not the funding for enforcement.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me…..

Once we have control of the border, and we actually enforce the immigration laws on the books, I think a lot of illegals will self-deport, so no need to round them up. Then, we deal with the others as we find them. End automatic anchor-baby citizen – that is another reason people come here – have a baby here, you get to stay and leech off the government.

All I ask is we have the same immigration policies as Mexico – the hyprocrites!

But then there’s that pesky Posse Commitas thang.

You saved me from a lot of typing. I noticed that immediately. No correlation whatsoever….that wasn’t even the slant of the article. lol

LaShawn Reaching too far again…

But I do agree with her (in general) about the immigration problem. All illegal alien sex offenders, gang members, & felons should be rounded up and removed ASAP IMO. Separating families???? The U.S. could look at that on a case by case basis…

Then from there, we need an accounting of the rest. Now how we should approach the rest is probably where I disagree with Lashawn. She wants them all to leave lol (which is impossible and impractical)…. For one thing, the illegals would never come from out of the shadows with that kind of an approach (which is the aim of the new legislation to begin with), and you would get no where with a policy like that. There has to be a mechanism for law abiding folks to gain eventual citizenship… by learning the language, staying out of trouble, paying taxes, working, etc…. And after 10 years or so…. MAYBE they can get it.

LaShawn doesn’t understand that the U.S. doesn’t have enough personnel to remove everyone. The U.S. really doesn’t have enough people to process all of the illegals that are here now…. But they must hire more. It’s really that 10-20% of illegals (1-3 million) who will really present a problem. But that’s a lot of people to try to find and process. We need some sort of national ID system (even though I was recently a victim of the Real ID Act- will write about that in my blog). I still support it. That way…we can better identify who doesn’t belong in the country…and get their asses out of here.

And on the catch and release issue… she is correct… Chertoff is lying. The reason he is lying is becuase the only thing that the border patrol CAN do is catch and release. There are not enough facilities, not enough space, not enough funding for food/water, not enough personnel to process aliens who are caught, not enough transportation units, etc to process, house, feed, and to look after everyone that is caught. I think Chertoff is talking in Bush language… which means that “Technically” they are not doing catch & release anymore…. because of some obscure policy change. But in reality…. they aren’t doing anything much different from what they were doing before. Hell, according to many Border Patrol advocates, the BP only has 1/2 of the agents that it needs for the amount of aliens that it deals with currently…. Chertoff is lying his ass off. It’s all Public Relations bull….

What we really need is a wall on the border… Damn a fence! We need a wall along that entire border. Perhaps a layer of a wall and a fence or two walls. In between…you want razor wire, trenches, and water (I would say land mines, but that might be a bit much). In addition, there needs to be cameras…and most of all more helicopters and more patrols…. thousands more. What they are discussing now are half assed measures. A fence here or there, blah blah… It’s nonsense. That’s not going to stop the massive out of control influx.

What is really scary is that Al Qaeda knows that this is a weakness and they would love to exploit it. This is why I have mentioned that North America needs common immigration standards. In other words… folks entering Mexico or Canada from overseas would have to deal with the same scrutiny as if they were entering the U.S. The U.S. should insist on it. This is closer to being the case for Canada….but Mexico, with all of the corruption there, it is probably not even close to being the case. Currently, all an extremist has to do is enter Mexico and he is home free at that point. Entering Mexico is like entering the U.S. The only obstacle for him then would be the U.S.-Mexico border…. They know that it’s easy to get in.

They have already been trying to get in from the Northern and Southern borders. When will the U.S. government learn that this is a top priority?
When it’s too late?

I meant to say:

“I’m quite sure that immigrants from Brazil, Libya or Kazakhstan are NOT the source of infection for residents of rural New Mexico…”

and when I continued to say:
…given that New Mexican rock squirrels and mice have been a reservoir for the plague for centuries…

I should have said “a century”… because it’s believed that Yersinia pestis came to the U.S. in 1899-1900 via rats on freight ships from China. Rats, not people. Rats hitching a ride on the boats of entrepreneurs.

and yet the link you provided to support your assertion refers to cases of plague in the Southwestern U.S. (New Mexico, Colorado, California, Texas), and the deaths of two New Mexicans — i.e., citizens of the U.S. state of New Mexico!!! (not “illegal immigrants newly wandered over the border from Mexico”!)

Plague — also called bubonic plague, caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, and spread from animals to humans via flea bites — has long been endemic to the U.S. southwest. Here’s a fact sheet from the National Park Service (U.S. Dept of the Interior) all about plague, and more facts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The CDC map shows that plaque is also endemic in parts of South America, Africa and Asia — but not Mexico! In any case, it’s not spread directly from human to human, and I’m quite sure that immigrants from Brazil, Libya or Kazakhstan are the source of infection for residents of rural New Mexico, given that New Mexican rock squirrels and mice have been a reservoir for the plague for centuries.

The following link is to an article about the origin of the sign:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050410/news_1n10signs.html

Religion is a tool of Leftist politicians throughout Latin America. Politicians use these priests and bishops and cardinals, often giving them “goodies” (material gifts of other support) in return for supporting their Leftist causes. Priests are the “educated class”, as are the Mullahs in Muslim countries, and “interpret” the Bible (or Koran) for the illiterate masses.

This MO is less effective in the USA and Europe, where people are literate and communication is readily available.

#13 – Christianity _is_ a call to socialism – even communism. The difference is that Christianity is a call to individual voluntary action, not political government sponsored enforced action. Huge difference. Lefties want to say “your religion says do these charitable things so you should support our laws that require it”. In fact, establishing a morality that is binding by law actually removes the morality from the act. One of the reasons you can’t legislate morality, by the way…!

La Shawn Barber…

Maybe the Christian community has ‘lost confidence’ with lying leftist bleatings about the ‘poor’ and ‘neighbours and all that junk? Have you considered that?

Leftists always try to redefine Christianity as socialism. The Bible has no bias towards the ‘poor’ or those who are criminals (this includes illegal immigrants)and if anyone cannot realise this I suggest they either get over it or re-read their Bible without socialist prescription reading glasses that distort The Truth.