Illegal is illegal. End of story. You can't do this anyplace in the world. It's illegal. You get deported. People need to start looking at the correct part of the issue here. Making it easier for them to become LEGAL. But let's get over this outrage at criminals, who are now purposely pushing this issue to get people on their side, being mistreated because they're being sent HOME.

Agreed, let's get all these fuckin' Europeans outta here.

I'm going to go with Ainur on this, Illegal is the issue, not that they're "taking our jobs".

You know what else is illegal? Giving illegal immigrants jobs, yet nobody seems to do or say anything about the companies giving them jobs. Guess it's easier to pick on the people desperate to make a few bucks than the greedy companies trying to save a few dollars.

Consider it done. I just shot myself for expressing my opinion. You are a great American., everything our Founding Father wished an American would be, really. But I actually didn't write any of this, because I shot myself. Actually, it was very hard to shoot myself because being a pile of shit, I have no arms. Yet I managed.

I have no problem with people coming to this country to make a better life for themselves, legal or otherwise. My ancestors came to this country seeking to do the exact same thing.

The problem lies in with a society that is sustained by workers earning sub-subsistence wages; both legal and illegal workers.

Go after the companies that increase shareholder revenues at the expense of employee salaries.

Kudos! Great imitation of a neo-con down to the bad spelling.

Remember how NAFTA was going to be a great thing for Mexico, the US and Canada? This is a direct result of NAFTA. For example, subsidized American corn has put out of business most of the Mexican corn growers. Whole regions of Mexico have lost their main economic driver. (Imagine Mexican tortilla makers have to import corn from the US!!!!) So these Mexican farmers now have to go North to find some kind of job that they can use to support their families. Yes, they are illegal, but they are illegal because they have been driven to it. They are not illegal because they are life-time criminals coming to rape us or terrorists trying to attack us. The "enemies" of our sovereign nation are those that act against our country's best interests. You'll find most of them in Washington, DC, not in fields in CA. And to those folks that say this is a matter of Homeland Security, remember that there were no 9/11 Mexican hijackers, most of them were Saudi nationals here LEGALLY. Saudi Arabia of course is one of our great partners....hmmm!

"trader to our nations sovereignty"

wow. Eugene really is a hick town.

Excuse me while I go trade some of your all american jobs with some queer french men for a pack of Gauloise and a rim job.

I agree with Keri. And the other thing that's missed in FTR's acrticle is the effect on the nations social programs. I may not agree with the social programs that our government runs (I think the government, state and local, tends to forget that it is our money....not the government's), but I don't think it's bound to change anytime soon. After 40 years of conditioning people to believe that the government owes them this, that, and whatever else, it's not going to change overnight.

They already take 35% of what I make right out of my pay. And I'm living paycheck to paycheck as it is. Where does the government expect the money to come from to pay for the Illegal's children to go to our schools? Or their FREE healthcare courtesy of an ER near you? Certainly not from the Illegals who are working. Last I checked, they were working in low-paying jobs. And last I checked (since my GF works in a $10/hr job), they'll end up getting all those taxes they paid back plus interest, if you count the services they receive (state insurance, supplemental welfare checks, etc).

FTR, you are clearly not an economist. Yours is the equivolant of the slave state's arguments prior to the civil war. In the end, there is hardship on either end of the solution to this problem. One of the solutions OBEYS THE LAW, and ensures that workers who come here will not be mistreated and abused. The other establishes a society of second-class non-citizens.

Now...try this one out. Georgia has started doing the same thing (because the Feds wouldn't). A large portion of Illegals left Georgia for friendlier climates like NC, SC and Maryland. Oddly enough, Georgia's economy has not been ruined.

But, take the problem our nation;s entitlement program is facing...and multiply that out 40 years...and that's a crisis.

Last year I researched my wife's ancestry. Most of her ancestors came from Germany in the 17th and 18th century. In one of the sources, I found a diatribe from English and Scottish settlers of the time bitching about how these "Palatines" from German speaking countries were lazy and were stealing jobs and land from the hard-working and rightful owners of the land, British subjects. I guess there will be idiots around forever!

Hey! Eugene is a Hippie/College town. This guy is the exception.

While you may have some points, it is a falacy to say that these people are coming here to live off of our social programs. Most of them are looking for a job and do NOT dare to be in a social program. They do not want any official of any agency to know that they are here. If anything your points back the idea to ease them into legal status, so we can tax them. I would agree with that, as long as they are making at least minimum wage.