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I'm very much pro-immigration. One of the first sound bites the pro-Mexican lobby likes to toss at you is, "Were your ancestors born here?" Nope. Not mine. Half of my family arrived in the 40's after WWII from Australia... legally. The other half of my family was Welsh, but they've been in Virginia for a couple hundred years. I believe they arrived when all you needed was the ability to get to the US to be a citizen. But they followed whatever rules were in place.

If I were a legal immigrant... I'd get mad at the illegals... making them look bad.

People like to talk about how it is inhumane to not allow anyone who wants to enter the country to do so. It is not my fault that Mexico is a crap country. It is not my fault that Central America is improverished. Has anyone thought about the costs associated with making 11 million illegals citizens? These people are the bottom of the socio-economic barrel (that's not racism, that's just a fact). This would add 11 million more people to an already broken welfare system. It would not increase tax revenues because people at that level pay less into the system than they take out. And last I saw, the US wasn't exactly running a well oiled machine in the financial planning department.

And then there's language.

In the United States, people should speak English.

Because that's the language we speak.

I don't a flying poot about you or your culture. Nor do I expect you to care about mine. But if you want to live in this country as bad as your lobbyists say you do... learn... to speak.. the language. Instead of creating a constitutional ban on gay marriages, how about authorizing a national language? When I go to Arby's an order my meal... I don't want to hear "que?" come back on the drive through speaker.

The pro-Mexicans are very tough on the point that illegal aliens do the jobs you don't want. And it saves you money. So the pro-Mexicans are also pro-exploitation? Neat-o? But what do you think will happen when below minimum wage workers all get a pay hike because they're legal? What happens when employers are required to cover insurance for these new legal friends of ours? Before, when they were illegal, they were disposable... were they going to go to the cops or lawyers to get justice? Nope. The cost of business will go up... and the consumer... the legal consumer will eat the cost.

Illegal immigrants are felons. They should be booted.

I'm not a warm fuzzy humanitarian type. I'm pissed about the war in Iraq because we're getting America kids killed for no good reason. If the point of us being in Iraq is to help the Iraqi way of life... I'm against it. If that was what was presented to the US people at the start of the war, Bush would have been beaten with a stick. Let's invade Mexico if it's so bad. Why not spend a few billion dollars rebuilding Mexico?

Because that's like renovating your garage. You don't do it.

Build a nice wall. Put some guards on it. And shoot anyone crossing.

There's a reason why people don't go sneaking across the Korean border.

Hell, if I though running across the desert in the middle of the night would get me a phat hook up and the only consequences would be to get sent home if I was caught. I'd do it. I'd be running over here every day.

And the last thing this country needs is more me.