Who really uses all these illegals? People who can afford to. I worked two jobs most of my life and so did my husband, as do many others. I had a lady come bi-weekly to wax my floors and do the oven. She was Polish and had immigrated herself…legally. Her services sporadically were all I could afford at the time and she had a number of customers like me so we suited each other and no one suffered. Frankly, if people can afford a fulltime nanny, lawn guy, poolboy and whatever, they should pay more for someone who is legal. They are the ones hiring the illegals and creating the demand. They’d starve if they waited for people like me to hire them.

It was a beautiful drive time in LA today without all of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS clogging the freeways. My 30 mile commute was finished in a mere 28 minutes normally lasting at least an hour.

So tell me how this is working in their favor. We see impressive amounts of traffic reduction; Congressman King from Iowa tells us this is what would happen with out all of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in our midst (From http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060427/NEWS09/604270382/1001/NEWS&lead=1):

Without illegal immigration, said King, “there would be no one to smuggle across our border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States. . . . The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. . . . Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded. . . . Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.”

I think the proof is in front of each one of us. We need to STOP the flow of latin refugees from the corrupt regimes south of our border. Once we have stemmed that tide we can talk about a “guest worker program” because with a 4% or less unemployment rate we do have a need for workers but without their wage reducing numbers we would be forced to find better ways to do our necessary work without them…which would not be a bad thing either.

Good luck on the afternoon drive,
SoCalTrojan

How do I know this? My daughter and her boyfriend speak spanish and the Latinos that they talk to are very happy to tell you they don’t want to be American but want to take back the South West for Mexico.

I am no xenophobe, know many hardworking Mexicans that are completely against this. I am merely against legalizing illegal behavior.

I’m not an economist, but here’s an article that says Mexico’s economic problems are not due to NAFTA but to the devaluation in ‘94.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/homepage/article_1122658.php

I too am going to shop today, buy gas, all in the hopes of proving that some people actually want the chaos to end. I would even be willing to go back to the Clinton model: enough enforcement to keep it to a manageable level.

There is a brazen, in your face, bordering ;P on Palestinian zealotry on the part of some of these activistas. Is as if somehow by virtue of just being here is carte blanches to break our immigration laws with impunity.

Unabated law breaking encourages more of the same! This is a national security issue! It infuriates me that republicans and democrat are doing a trapeze act on this.

What am I missing? This is so clear cut a cave man could understand it ;

I teach at an inner city high school, the majority of these families do not support the boycott. ANSWER and the disgraceful LA Unified Schools teachers will radicalize these demonstrators and create a disaster. LAUSD provides busses for demonstrations.

The voter thing is for real. The democrat party has registered thousands. The guy who murdered Colosio (candidate for president of Mexico) was registered to vote at least twice.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/journaleditorialreport/110504/stealing2.html

(plus 8 of the 19 9/11 terrorists)

I was hoping there would be border enforcement and some sort of amnesty, like the President’s plan. These radical groups seem intent on poisoning this. They seem intent on wrecking any rational plan.

What evidence do you have that the illegal border jumpers want to become Americans? It seems that they want America to become Mexico. That’s what the correct term to use is “illegal aliens”, not “illegal immigrants”. They say they’re here for jobs and a decent life, nothing about becoming Americans.

Where am I going wrong?

Most voter registrars offices don’t check citizenship…they just rely on the signed statement of the registrant. Thus, it would be simple to flood the rolls with illegals…no questions asked.

Further, why is it that the majority of illegal aliens are from Mexico? For a country which has more billionaires than Switzerland and greater natural resources than America there is something odd about a government which encourages it’s poor to head across the border to clean Hollywood’s home for cheap.

I want legal migrants from around the world to have an opportunity to trive in freedom yet for some reason it appears that Mexican-only migrants get a free pass. This rather racist, inclusionary policy is un-American.