Yes the problem is complex. It is "How do you get a lazy money sucking Government to do what it is paid to do with taxes?" YES, let me hear how there isn't enough money! Check the tax revenue of this country! I for one am tired of paying taxes and getting little to no services for them.

Brittanicus

Get rid of the open-borders criminals, including the Governors, Mayors, judges and city administrators and all those who out to appease the illegal immigrant advocates. So where does the potential VP Sarah Palin really stand on the illegal alien pestilence. Will we be aware of the truth and not propaganda before the closing days of the presidential election. Those who aid and abet illegal immigrants including local government officials should go to prison. Legal African-Americans or any race has a right to working for an employer. People who are in this country illegally are lawbreakers, even though the Congress made it a civil penalty. It's stealing jobs from citizens and legal residents and offers nothing to America, but OVERPOPULATION and chain migration. The major issue was the loophole that was inserted called the "Family Reunification Act." New immigrant citizens could bring in parents and siblings, who could bring in their spouses. They, in turn, could bring in their family members--a chain migration. By 1970, there were so many disabled, and elderly parents that the government had to assist them. The government started Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and even SDI. That also included Medicaid, and some got food stamps and a housing allowances. It's outcome is family reunion and extra costs for the disabled, mentally sick and elderly that never paid into the system. US.Taxpayers would be forever paying for the extended families and all those they sponsor. Everybody is crying about the Economy? But do you realize the amount of money taxpayers are contributing to the lifestyles of illegal aliens.Not just 12 million as you hear in America? That number was given 6 years ago? Today it's probably between 20 & 30 million and climbing! You are supporting their free health care, education and more than the unsuspecting taxpayers realizes. Assign to you by the parasite employers all around us. Both Presidential candidates are going to deliver to their corporate donors and special interest groups AMNESTY! That will lead to OVERPOPULATION, because the census estimates we will another 120 million more mouths to feed in just twenty years. A 50% increase in people. But what about the millions, just waiting to scramble across our undermanned border? The SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) is our last chance. 80 percent of the American population are NOT easily going to be swayed, by either Obama, McCain to give the 13 to 20 million illegal aliens any kind of Amnesty.? By any name they want to call it? It has to be voted by house, Senate, and THE PEOPLE and that will have major hurdles, if not impossible? Everybody who doesn't have the right papers, know they are intentionally breaking the law. Their is no malice by the agents; just a duty to the American people and those who came here legally. The 'Rule of Law" must be observed by every person in the United States. LAUREL, Miss, a manufacturing plant where 600 illegal aliens were arrested this week, shows the astronomical cost of this problem? The federal agents declined how many agents were involved in the raid, but said they acted on a tip provided by a union worker. You cannot tell me for one minute, that the CEO, Directors on mahogany row didn't know about the illegal workers? Ice has a Tipline: 1-866-DHS-2ICE for intelligence to locate illegal aliens, or predatory businesses that employ them. If we can only pass the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) that Democrats are trying to keep away from the public eye. Its funding will build a massive force of interior ICE agents, including 20.000 border patrol enforcement to root out the culprits and the E-verify data base that is 90.5 percent effective. NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB

Linda

In my previous post, I inadvertently left out the word "NOT" in this part of my post. It should read "Do not be ignorant of the fact, too, that 'NOT' all people crossing our borders want to come to work, live and make a better life for themselves.....".

Halibut

"The United States needs to secure its borders. It needs a way for people who are here illegally to pay fines, complete requirements and become legal. It needs a realistic system for workers who want to come here legally." I hate to beat this drum again, but any amnesty program is doomed to failure unless appropriate enforcement measures are put in place. The laws are in place, they just need to be enforced. Right now to enact this type of weak immigration law will be like bailing a leaky boat. It will accomplish nothing except to, encourage more illegal imigration and hurt the chances for those who want to immigrate legally. Employeer must be REQUIRED to use E-verify to check the status of employees. This will quiet those who wonder why ICE doesn't prosecute employers. Fact is, you can't prosecute an employer unless it can be proven that they KNOWINGLY hired an illegal alien. E-verify will improve ICE's chances of prosecuting employers who violate the law.

Linda

The answer to the illegal immigrant problem seems to be an easy one. It is not. The poster who wrote, "The Federal Government does have a sensible federal immigration policy that secured borders and provided a path to legal status............THEY JUST REFUSE TO ENFORCE IT!............The law was enacted for a reason. should realize that is impossible." doesn't understand, evidently, the complexities of the issue. Yes, more should be done to enforce the law. But the problem is extremely complex. I speak as one who has lived right on the US-Mexican border in Southwestern New Mexico. The ranch I lived on bordered Mexico for 28 miles. This area of the State and Country was extremely remote. It was 45 miles to the post office & 90 to the nearest grocery store. The nearest Border Patrol office was approximately 90 miles away too. There were Border Patrol officers who came by several times a month & there were sensors aimed at the border in various locations. Still, when something registered on the sensors, it was a 90 mile drive to get to the "suspected entry area" even if an agent was able to respond immediately! The barrier between our ranch and Mexico was a barbed-wire fence. Hundreds of miles of our borders have only a the barbed wire (thanks in most part by ranchers who live there). There is a border fence going up in areas, but the "environmentalists" and other special interest groups are complaining that the fence is hurting the natural habitat and ecological balance in the areas it is effecting. There are huge areas of our country just like the one I've described. There is no way to keep our borders free from illegal immigrants in these areas unless we bring our troops back from around the world and post them along all United States borders. They would have to be nearly arms' length apart to absolutely keep people out. Do not be ignorant of the fact, too, that all people crossing our borders want to come to work, live and make a better life for themselves. There are terrorists who freely cross on foot in the dark of night in these remote areas! The Border Patrol has caught several of these people that I'm aware of. Our government also signed and enacted NAFTA between Mexico, Canada & the United States. North American Free Trade....truckers pass freely between the three countries without even stopping if they have the right equipment on their trucks! Don't be surprised if very soon we will all be spending money that is similar to the Euro, that is THE currency for Mexico, Canada and the United States. All our "In God We Trust" coin and paper money will no longer be made or recognized as uniquely American money. I could go on and on...but, the fact remains there is never a simple solution. I also cannot help but wonder what the Native Americans who helped the first "illegal immigrants" from Europe would think about all this?

Gringo

I can't beleive what I just read! A Republican that is talking positive about immigration. Is the world coming to an end or are our "leaders" waking up and realizing that with an economy that is getting ready to tank needs these 12 million (the # is higher) PEOPLE to help keep the US afloat? Whatever the cange of mindset is, I hope it continues. Tearing apart families in the manner it has been being done is a disgrace, not only as human beings but as a country! You can argue all day long about the illegal sides of immigration but the fact is that they still bolster the economy and are here for the most part one reason and one reason only...to seek a better life for themselves and their families. Most do not break the laws, God forbid they do, they get plastered on the front page of the papers and constantly ran through the news. Never do you see anything positive about legal or illegal imigrants accomplishments! But let them make a mistake and they are crucified and put under the jail as we turn around and let Americans that commit much more serious crimes back into society with a slap on the wrist! The most recent example of this happening is the 6 that got off with a sweet little deal after months of covering up a crime (murder in my eyes)! There is something really out of ballance with our judicial system in this entire country!

Literally millions of illegal aliens have purchased/obtained fraudulent ID and the Feds are just beginning to comprehend the scope of the problem. The real wakeup call will come when the identity theft victims, you, me, our children, families of the deceased, etc. realize they are being denied loans, job opportunities or the IRS wants to talk with them about filing two tax returns/refunds. These illegal aliens have clearly demonstrated, through their dishonest actions, that they have no claim whatsoever to the welcome mat extended to legal and honest immigrants.

What is a white that is likely to cease being a majority around the mid-2050s? Is it all the "others" combined that aren't part of a recognized minority?

The Federal Government does have a sensible federal immigration policy that secured borders and provided a path to legal status............THEY JUST REFUSE TO ENFORCE IT!............The law was enacted for a reason.

We need to embrace these people. A major number of them will become citizens and will be voters. Each party should attend to that fact.

Thankfully, even the Republicans have a nominee who proposes to do exactly as this article recommends. It is the humane thing to do, rather than separate the parents from their US citizen kids.