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Do you work for FOX News?

Why does she have to be given legal status in order to prosecute?

You need her testimony and that's the deal her attorney is offering?

the poll is flawed, should be another choice for the first question - like allowed to stay until the trial completes and then sent home.

*sigh*

That was excluded on purpose. If you have to choose between those two, what do you choose? I'm curious. Push comes to shove, how crazy are you people?

Screw that. If she won't testify against the accused without some kind of reward then ship her @ss home and let him go free. The only thing rewarding her will achieve is more people filing false abuse claims in order to get a free ride to citizenship.

We don't have to choose anything. Why are you trying so deperately to start a fight?

Just wanted to see how nuts you really are.


You're certifiable.

Yes or No- Do you still beat your wife?

where is the option for the second question for "not sure" ??

Let her testify, put the wife beater in jail, and then send her back.

She is in no position to make a deal. A crime has been committed. She is under supoena to testify. If she doesn't, then she is in contempt of court. There are no dels available.

If she is in contempt, put her in jail and then deport her.

you need more options....I dint vote.

The honesty is appreciated.

Marilyn - you live in SoCal, you see them every day, trust me.

Let me know when you find anything in the constitution or law books that says people ought to get paid off for testifying against an as-of-yet-proven-guilty assailant.

thanks, it is just that my hubby's family is Mexican and I know his parents are here legally but I am not sure about the extended family... they probably are legal but I have never asked...


I think wife beating is a worse crime then illegal immigration


the question was "do you know any illegals?" , not have you seen any

Wake up John.

I choose door #3

and wouldn't it be considered bribing a witness to testify?

Witnesses are bribed all the time. They're given immunity, their sentences are commuted, etc.

I was just going to say something like that

Btw check out the poll : 11-2. The silent majority is still good people, whoo hoo!

Wake up to what? If I got mugged do you think asking the prosecutor to pay me $1000 dollars to testify against my assailant would get me anywhere?


She's not a witness, she's the victim.

Note that I worded the questions so as not to imply that.

Yes, we personally know illegal immigrants (note: more than 1) and we do not live in California

and plenty have not replied because your poll is flawed.

No. I was wondering if VJ had turned into some kind of surreal "neo-Nazis for Hillary" forum. This poll affirms my belief that it has not.

I know a few, and I don't live in cal... and why that 'you see them every day, trust me', are you afraid of them? are they gonna try to rob you, kill you or offer you some dope?

They're gonna take her job at mcdonalds.

lotta people know illegals .......

Did I say that?

Ok, folks, it's been good but I must go log some billables now. Talk to you all later

so are you saying they do that?

This poll is severly flawed and only serves the purpose of the inventor...that said...allow the person to stay until the case is over, put away the wife beater and eject the illegal from the country...nuff said...

You win, you've made a flawed poll that serves no purpose except to anger people.

I'm still waiting for the answer to that one

Now for a quick trip into the twilight zone - She is the wife beater.

I liked the poll and I certainly see its purpose. And dayum, some folks are crazy. The poll, if taken in a vacuum, asks if you see illegal immigration-related crimes as worse than wife beating. There really isn't any sort of "flaw" that would prevent anyone from answering it. I find it heartening that even on VJ, most people aren't entirely rabid and foaming at the mouth.

Also, question #2 was "do you know" an illegal immigrant, not "are you aware of some in your communities." If the question were "are any of your friends illegal immigrants" I wonder what would happen. I have some, and the ones I've met recently were all Irish or Eastern European. Hm,

So? Illegal is illegal. And it seems the ONLY ones who make the nationality distinction are those against us anti-illegals..

Sorry Alex..that's the way I see it!

PS....glad to see you back

Amen Lisa.

This is my last post to you of the day, but certainly illegal is not illegal. Jaywalking is not double homicide, and stealing a pack of gum is not rape.

The reason why we debate the law is so we can improve on it. "Illegal" is ever-changing and almost meaningless as an argument unto itself. I'm surprised so many people simplify things that way.

Well, we are talking about being in America illegally, not breaking a law by jaywalking.

You are either living in America legally or not. Seems pretty clear.

il·le·gal
–adjective
1. forbidden by law or statute.
2. contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc.: The referee ruled that it was an illegal forward pass.
–noun
3. Informal. illegal alien.

There's knowing and then there's knowing.

I've lived and worked with illegal alien laborers that the oil companies hire to do construction labor on the production facilities in the US Gulf of Mexico. Some even admit they are illegal aliens. What do they have to fear? Fat chance that anyone would come get them even if they were reported.

I don't hang around with them after I leave work. We don't have a lot in common. I don't hate them, but they have no business working illegally in my country and the construction contractors need to be hit hard for blatantly hiring them. They know they are hiring illegals and don't care. Neither do the oil companies.

i live in a small town in illinois and know abut 11 ...no issue with them at all..

and you are putting up a fence eh.........

Agreed - that's how I read it. Still 7 people agreed with the statement that deporting the illegal immigrant was more important than jailing the wife-beater. Granted there's probably a bit more to their opinions than that but still....

Uh ... ok ....

The poll is FUBAR

No vote.

the fenceS are for the russian army ....