What part of I-L-L-E-G-A-L don't they understand?

I agree, they are not immigrants. In my mind they are criminals. They broke our laws by coming here and yet we are supposed to just accept them into the fold? And worse break our backs to make them feel welcome, we are to cater to them and their ways? I don't think so. If they want to come here legally, learn the language and the history that's fine. I don't have a problem with that. If so many can do it others can as well. Most of us do not get short cuts in life why should they be allowed to make their own in such a fashion?

Yes, that's right. Some people do it even knowing it's illegal. It's a shame. But, be sure of that, there's money behind all this story. Money makes this Planet spins, and that's why people do such things. I'm not saying that it's right, try to understand me. I am completely against this act, but money makes people do anything.

Thank you! I agree. I empathize with these people and I understand how much they want to come to US, but seriously, my family had to fill out paper work and my good friends have had to marry Americans or fill out paper work to get here. That is the way it has to be people. If you are illegal, guess what? YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS! If you are not here legally, that means that we citizens and people who are here legally owe you nothing.

A-M-E-N brotha! I actually do not blame those who see getting to the US as their only shot, but they have to accept the consequences of the game, which is get caught, go back and leave your illusion behind. I also understand the socialist brainwashing many of the Mexican peasants get from the radical arm of the Catholic church in Mexico with the Liberation theology that masks the tenets of communism that they are truly preaching. It's a complicated issue, it's not always black-and-white, but the best remedy is apparent to me, as i'm sure it is to you - bring back the military and lock down the border with Mexico!

The government is messed up period. I believe that the people should ACTUALLY take hand what the real problems are. We live in this reality that the government seems to not see. People lose jobs to aliens because they are "cheaper", EVEN AT CAR AUCTIONS WE CAN'T EVEN BUY A FREAKING CAR BECAUSE THESE ALIENS BUY THEM ALL AND TAKE THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY. Yea see... I am quite agrivated about this whole ordeal, I am tired of being stalked, I am tired of losing my opportunities as an american. I was born and raised here and because the government is too worried about other crap in this world all together they keep us Americans protected!

We have this problem here in Europe, too. First they come in masses into our countries and then our governments say: legalize it. Go eastwards, these countries check very carefully even people who only visit and visiors have to register at the police. While they come here and work without papers and often enough have left our country with a car they did not buy. This raised our insurance premium considerably. Again danjenkins, you are not alone!

I agree with you. The theory of why this is happening & being allowed to continue is the hopes of the upstart of a civil war so that marshal law can be called, thus abolishing the 2008 election.

The part that says "do as I say, not as I did!" (Laughs) Danjenkins, as of the past 12 years, people who come to the USA have some knowledge of the unfortunate history of the USA and tend to take advantage of the situation(s). The situation you are addressing is indeed an indication of the decline in values and principles in the US government; which incidentally, has turned the USA into a safe haven for lowlifes and crooks - Did you know that about 70% of the people in the USA are often the rejects and lowlifes of their original societies? (Go figure!) But when it comes to Mexicans in the far South, be ye informed that they actually consider you, Danjenkins, as the illegal alien! (Laughs) Well, I always tell folks that land acquired by means of war is never a guaranteed deal! And, I hope you sure do remember this line of reasoning when it comes to our Palestinian/Israel issue! Good day, Danjenkins!

I knew that there were others out there with the same frustrations as me. Now if we could only somehow get the government to understand that. But until we ALL go to the polls and vote at the same time to get the whiny politicians out of office, we aren't going to get anywhere. I vote in every election. I just wish many others who sit around and complain would do the same.

I totally agree with you. Seeing them sue the US and winning drives me nuts, too. It seems that illegal aliens have more rights than we do! If they want to immigrate to the US, I don't have a problem with that. It's when they come in illegally that I am irritated. My husband feels the same way.

Although I think that one should be able to move around this world freely, I don't agree with offering citizenship to people who sneak into this country. They do upset the balance concerning employment.For instance a citizen who cannot get a job as a busboy but an illegal can and get paid under the table while collecting welfare. I also have found the attitude from SOME of these people to be very negative, at times extremly racist and bigoted and all around ungrateful. There is a reason that we have these procedures, and I feel that they are not being enforced and that we tend to be a little too accomodating to people who don't deserve it! Coming into this country ,getting a job,housing,goverment benefits without going through the proper protocal is stealing!!!

I admit the USA is really messing up in this area bad. Illegal and immigrants and everyone from a different country has more rights than those who were born here in America. It does not make since.

This is something that really irritates me. They are illegal and they should not be allowed here and should be sent back. I don't care how long that they have been here illegally they should not be here. It's so aggrivating that you have to do all of that to get to certain other countries but the US is just lettng them stay.

The countries you mention as examples, Belize, Mexico and Haiti, are all incredibly poor. The US has to accept its position as a global superpower and enormous economic force and do some good for once. Allowing Mexican immigrants (willing to work for less, and willing to do the kinds of jobs that Americans won't even go near) to enter the country and work for a living makes perfect sense; they drive the economy forward and ask for very little in return. Because they're illegal immigrants, they don't have social security numbers, they aren't entitled to benefits, they can't claim medical attention, and so they work incredibly hard, often sending the cash they make home to their families in Mexico, and go without the basics of life that Americans demand. I think that you should perhaps show hem a little bit of respect, especially as US citizens have life so easy compared to those in Central or South America (a region in which the US government does nothing but try to undermine alternative forms of governance). Claiming that an economic success as huge as America is strictly for those born within its limits is ludicrous; national boundaries are effectively pointless anyway. Why should those in Nuevo Laredo life differently to those in Laredo? Its insane. Being from the UK, I can tell you what the situation is like in Europe. Eastern European immigrants, usually Poles, enter the UK and put the British work ethic o shame; they work harder than he majority of the existing workforce and ask for very little in return. Is it any surprise that employers are so ready to hire them?