Geri – Learn how to spell. Maybe that will help you get your pointless message across.

If Mr Figueroa does not overstay his work permit, he does not have anything to worry about, but most likely he’ll stay longer and yes, then he can be deported.
If you want to live here come here legally and pay your taxes. Don’t claim ten dependents and send the rest of the money across the border, so you can pay a coyote and smuggle your cousin in, too. Don’t overload our welfare system and quit giving birth to anchor babies.

It’s not pointless, actually. What Geri is stating, is in fact true. People need to learn economics and need to do more research- otherwise, keep marching with the rest of the sheep.

This article is such an appeal to emotion. All the sob stories and the emotive language, coupled with the one “carefully” chosen supporter they chose to quote, do nothing but stir emotion amongst the readers and put up a smoke screen to the logical arguments for and against the law. Can we not argue logic anymore? Are the american people unable to use logic and reasoning to come to rational conclusions? Are we only able to base our opinions off of emotional stories, hateful accusitions, name calling, and the latest bandwagon rolling through town?

I have yet to read an argument from any media source that deals with this law on a logical level, without using solely emotion to explain a position.

Read, please:
http://www.publicreligion.org/research/?id=279&gclid=CN21t9OQ_aECFQLEsgodvWcDFg

It is not about emotions or about whether illegal immigrants are positive or negative to our society.

It is about:

1) our nation’s right to have its borders and sovereignty respected (just as Mexico and every other nation expects its borders and sovereignty to be expected);

2) our society being a society of laws and a process for making those laws that our citizens expect to be respected.

There are thousands, millions of people who aren’t fortunate enough to live next to the U.S. border and instead seek to immigrate legally and expect to be respected and treated equally, i.e. it is disrespectful and racist to give favorable treatment to illegal immigrants and Hispanics over the many law abiding immigration seekers.

If more immigrants are needed and positive then what currently are being allowed in legally, then let’s change things LEGALLY . . . lets’s change the laws, increase the numbers, streamline the process, etc. and open it up to all races and countries – Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Africans, Asians, etc., not just hispanics.

@BornToBeFree: Not one thing you’ve said LOGICALLY or SUBSTANTIVELY refutes that the law is being broken and why the law should not be enforced. In fact, one “point” – “it’s not about the law” is simply childish and rediculous; your rediculous denial does not erase that the fact …. fact … not the make believe reality/utopia you want to live in … the fact is that there is a law for our nation as for every other nation. Violate Mexico’s border (and any of its laws for that matter) and tell the police that it’s not about the law and see how that goes over. What an irresponsible “argument.”

It is the usually emotional, immature and immoral points hashed over and over by leftists/marxists and hypocritical liberals, i.e. who want to refer to past bad acts by now long dead people but its not like they are so “brokenhearted over injustice” that they are planning on giving up their personal land and possessions.

Let’s go through your supposed “arguments/points”

1. “People are people” blah blah which basically at best simply explains that people have rational or stressful motives for breaking the law, i.e. their motive or stresses justify them being giving a pass.

By such “logic” are we suppose to give people a pass who sell drugs cause they need money for their children?

Likewise, if someone breaks into BorntoBeFree’s house because they are under tremendous financial stress or hungry, BorntoBeFree is going to be fine with that? Maybe you would BorntoBeFree (and your loved ones in the house with you) be fine with hungry person after person breaking into your property, house, apartment, etc. whatever, it’;s your decision to make, not mine to make for you.

2. The idiotic “it’s not about the law” claim of the law not being relevant already dismissed in my first paragraph as not being based on REALITY let alone logic.

3. Lastly, the “Cause Dead People Got Away with It” argument, which basically along the lines of “arguments” children use to try to get what they want, i.e. cause so and so got away with it or referring to some shameful past in order to get their unethical way now, i.e. moral extortion.

Are you child BorntoBeFree? Maybe you are, and that would explain why such an “argument” to you has so much appeal.

If not, and if you have children, I hope you adult enough to not let them have their way over you with such manipulative, guilt, shame, i.e. emotional not logical, arguments?

As is, what are long dead ancestors did has no LOGICAL weight. Again, it is an emotionally manipulative argument not a logical, substantive one – feel so bad about what happened that you are suppose to give way now.

I dare you not to be able to find some very bad act in the history of every family (and race for that matter, including Mexicans). So if you want to open up that can of worms, you better be ready to start giving up your own stuff, except your not, as the overwheming number of people who cite such arguements are just being self-righteous hypocrites who have no intention to personally be burdened by such “guilt of injustice.”

Our ancestors came here illegally so we should accept illegal immigration – that’s your “logic.” I can do you even one better. Current Mexicans, not even their ancestors, punish illegal immigrants who come into their country illegally, so its only right that Mexicans get punished when they come into our land illegally. See, I did your “logic” even better by a couple hundred years!

Btw, that our ancestors came in illegally, is actually a logical argument for enforcement of immigration laws and fighting illegal immigration. Yes, our ancestors came in llegally . . . and look what that open border policy did for the Indians … EINSTEIN.

It’s a fool that let’s history repeat itself . . . you’re that fool that wants to bring down everybody else for your fraudulent self-rigtheousness (anytime you want to give up all your possession over the huge “guilt” you carry over the injustice of our ancestors, let us know … ).

4. Let’s talk about what your real argument is – that the U.S. and traditional U.S. values and power and people are evil and thus, anything that undermines that is good by any means necessary, no need for consistency, i..e. it’s fair that Mexico and other nations enforce their immigration policies because they are not the big, bad, powerful U.S. We are big, bad, powerful or wealthy and therefore deserve to be exploilted and our laws disrespected.

That’s what you and the other marxists/leftists citizens – who don’;t deserve to be citizens – want to say.

*THIS COMMENT HAS BEEN EDITED FOR LANGUAGE BY FEET IN TWO WORLDS*

The one thing the Mexican illegals and their liberal supporters are overlooking, blindly overlooking, is the fact that the true immigrants who helped build America wanted to be Americans. They put being American first and their own heritage last. They became part of the society that makes, er, made America great.

The Mexican immigrants do not have that attitude. They fully expect Americans to take a back seat to their Hispanic presence and ignore the fact that they are lawbreakers. They want to force their heritage on America and with the aid of our flaccid Federal government, they are getting away with it.

When entering someone’s house, it’s customary to knock and ask permission first. The same is true of one’s country.

There is a disease spreading in America, it’s called liberalism. Those illegal supporting voices of liberalism are the ones of the children whose drug addled parents fled the United States when called upon for military service.

Those voices have nothing of substance to say, and they are bent on destroying everything their grandparents lived and died for.