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John,

I recommend you to read Gus Van Horn's post, "Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom: Welfare State Is Draw for Illegals" at Pajamas Media.

http://bit.ly/biE0Rv

john cox:

I was shooting for an editorial visual of how the current U.S. immigration policy enables the least desirable entrants to U.S. soil.

John: OK. Please read my take on the issue in my post, Immigration Policy. Click on the link with my name (Martin Lindeskog).

john cox:

HEY MARTIN

I get you'd like to see American borders more open. I'm merely suggesting that
ENFORCEMENT should be tougher, not the laws.

Hey John: Thanks for the clarification! Talk to you on Sunday, May 23, on BlogTalkRadio! I look forward to our conversation!

All the Best,

Martin

Dr. Bob:

John -

Imagine the porpoise is placed at the top of a water slide by Obama. Then jumping through Obie's hoop would merely be enabled by doing nothing but relying on gravity. That's pretty close to the way it is for Hispanic illegals.

Am I wrong to think that all immigrants should go through the established immigration processes we now have, rather than cheat the system by coming here outside the process and expecting amnesty?

Am I wrong to think that our country ought to have criteria for immigration and be able to carefully select those we want based on our country's needs?

Am I wrong to think that if our welfare state encourages illegals to come here, that maybe the welfare state is too generous with illegals and US citizens too?

Terwiliger:

Lemme get this straight...

(1) An out-of-control nanny/welfare state that pays "benefits" to non-citizens is a HUGE problem.

(2) Criminal immigrants crossing porous borders in-name-only are a HUGE problem.

(3) (1) causes (2) because the availability of "free" services under (1).

PROBLEM:

(1) & (2) are mutually exclusive & can be dealt with independently of each other. Get the free-loading criminal aliens out & stop the new ones at the border; the solution of (2) provides the solution to (1).

I like Ralphie May's solution:

(1) Central America is all pretty much the same, & the borders are arbitrary.

(2) We start in Mexico. We buy up the property, fix it up, & flip it.

(3) We keep working our way south, & the farther we go, the narrower the border we have to defend, until finally...

(4) We're in Panama, & we have the canal we built in the first place, stock it with alligators, & dare them to swim across it--unless, of course, they're willing to go through the proper legal channels (no pun intended).

I'm either part Cherokee or part Monacan. Have you learned nothing from my ancestors?

GarandFan:

Looks like Obama's idea of a "Welcoming Arch".

Tom Wms:

Actually, its the legal citizens who have to jump through the hoop. There are no hoops for illegals. They can come and go as they please.

Tom Wms:

Actually, its the legal citizens who have to jump through the hoop. There are no hoops for illegals. They can come and go as they please.

Terwiliger:

Am I the only one who's sick of hearing that "Stopping illegal [Mexican, Hispanic] 'immigrants' at the Mexican border--or in the Southwestern U.S., for that matter--is racist/profiling"?

Has anybody ever said, "Man, I could really go for some Satay; anyone for a road trip to Cabo?"

How about, "Honey, I'm craving falafel. Would you be a dear & run down to Guadalajara for me?" (Flinchy eradicated all of the cheap bootleg falafel last year.)

Or, "I'm running down to Tijuana for some lutefisk & sauerkraut. Can I pick up something for anybody else?"

This is almost as stupid as strip-searching grannies while pushing Akhmed the turban bomber up to first class.

It's a border with Mexico, for Pete's sake--& as far south as you can go, it's predominantly Hispanic people. Who else are we going to stop? Did Santa relocate to Paracho to take advantage of the cheap labor under NAFTA? Are we to believe that the folks hopping the border are simply tall, REALLY tanned elves?

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