A return to "Operation Wetback"?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

[almaty 19]

over-reaction = chopf##k...

[Cristy 4]

I just read that. Shamefull.

[almaty 19]

just wrong

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

must be election time.

Daniel

:energetic:

[camaleon 0]

I have so many bad words for him...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Good 'Ole Boys for the Good 'Ole Days eh?

[peejay 327]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

It is extreme and this ain't 1950. There are better ways that are technologically feasable. Better to make it mandatory by law for businesses to use SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program and the Basic Pilot Program to verify employment eligibility for all workers in the USA. At present, Basic Pilot is voluntary. It should be mandatory along with tamperproof Social Security Cards. If someone is not legally in the USA they will not be eligible to work. It will end the practice of 150 people using 1 Social Security number to work illegally. Employers that refuse to use the system should be prosecuted heavily.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

American citizens and legal residents are already in the government data bases, so it is not so difficult to use this data to crack down on illegals.

You get what you tolerate. If there is no tolerance for illegals they will leave for greener pastures. They will self deport when the game is over. Why waste money rounding them up when you can get them to leave voluntarily. Most of them paid money to come here and they will leave when the $$$ dry up.

I think by now most know what it will take to take a huge bite out of illegal immigration. It isn't rocket science nor will it involve any more inconvenience than most legal residents and citizens already go through to work legally in the USA.

[pedroh 21]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

It is extreme and this ain't 1950. There are better ways that are technologically feasable. Better to make it mandatory by law for businesses to use SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program and the Basic Pilot Program to verify employment eligibility for all workers in the USA. At present, Basic Pilot is voluntary. It should be mandatory along with tamperproof Social Security Cards. If someone is not legally in the USA they will not be eligible to work. It will end the practice of 150 people using 1 Social Security number to work illegally. Employers that refuse to use the system should be prosecuted heavily.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

American citizens and legal residents are already in the government data bases, so it is not so difficult to use this data to crack down on illegals.

You get what you tolerate. If there is no tolerance for illegals they will leave for greener pastures. They will self deport when the game is over. Why waste money rounding them up when you can get them to leave voluntarily. Most of them paid money to come here and they will leave when the $$$ dry up.

I think by now most know what it will take to take a huge bite out of illegal immigration. It isn't rocket science nor will it involve any more inconvenience than most legal residents and citizens already go through to work legally in the USA.

but u know that systems arent flawless peejay, and you know some stupid joe will get someone that looks mexican and will say let's deport him, etc etc etc like its happening now in the airplanes, anyone that looks muslim (dark skin, big beard, talks funny) is considered a terrorist.. so, is it going to be worth the lawsuits and errors?

[Henia 11]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

O snaaaaps we are all (if not native Americans) immigrates... #######... not this discussion again... it disppoints me when ppl try to we donnot like immigrates... and esp for Mexicans... hmmm not that long ago this was their land... and hmmm more Latinos in the US then whites...hmm makes you think...

[Mirorgate 0]

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

Major issuse is lockin up banks to visitors too with that route. How do you verify they just visitor v illegal alien? Have them flash passport at all bank transactions??

O snaaaaps we are all (if not native Americans) immigrates... #######... not this discussion again... it disppoints me when ppl try to we donnot like immigrates... and esp for Mexicans... hmmm not that long ago this was their land... and hmmm more Latinos in the US then whites...hmm makes you think...

Go back far enough and even the Native Marican people emigrated here. People move about the globe for all different reasons, but now that ppls have merged into countries, and established them how ever they have been.. work in the present.. quit trying to explain away by going to the past to support something that isn't viable anymore. and what makes me think is where you got numbers that state there are more latinos in the continental US than caucasion ppls.

[peejay 327]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

It is extreme and this ain't 1950. There are better ways that are technologically feasable. Better to make it mandatory by law for businesses to use SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program and the Basic Pilot Program to verify employment eligibility for all workers in the USA. At present, Basic Pilot is voluntary. It should be mandatory along with tamperproof Social Security Cards. If someone is not legally in the USA they will not be eligible to work. It will end the practice of 150 people using 1 Social Security number to work illegally. Employers that refuse to use the system should be prosecuted heavily.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

American citizens and legal residents are already in the government data bases, so it is not so difficult to use this data to crack down on illegals.

You get what you tolerate. If there is no tolerance for illegals they will leave for greener pastures. They will self deport when the game is over. Why waste money rounding them up when you can get them to leave voluntarily. Most of them paid money to come here and they will leave when the $$$ dry up.

I think by now most know what it will take to take a huge bite out of illegal immigration. It isn't rocket science nor will it involve any more inconvenience than most legal residents and citizens already go through to work legally in the USA.

but u know that systems arent flawless peejay, and you know some stupid joe will get someone that looks mexican and will say let's deport him, etc etc etc like its happening now in the airplanes, anyone that looks muslim (dark skin, big beard, talks funny) is considered a terrorist.. so, is it going to be worth the lawsuits and errors?

So I guess we should just let in 12 - 20 illegal aliens just in case we might make a couple of mistakes trying to stop them?

You know...there is a .000000000000001% chance that you could get killed by a meteor on the way to work. Maybe you should spend the rest of your life hiding under the covers in bed and just stay home the rest of your life? There is a .0000000000000000000000000001% chance of getting hit by a meteor there.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

Major issuse is lockin up banks to visitors too with that route. How do you verify they just visitor v illegal alien? Have them flash passport at all bank transactions??

I guess when all they can come up with that is half way legit is a Matricular Consular card...that might be a dead giveaway?

After all the ####### I had to go through to get my wife and stepdaughter legit ID...there really isn't any excuse. They did quite well when all they had were valid visas.

Hell...I gotta show my driver's license just to cash a check at the Piggley Wiggley. Give me a break!

[pedroh 21]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

It is extreme and this ain't 1950. There are better ways that are technologically feasable. Better to make it mandatory by law for businesses to use SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program and the Basic Pilot Program to verify employment eligibility for all workers in the USA. At present, Basic Pilot is voluntary. It should be mandatory along with tamperproof Social Security Cards. If someone is not legally in the USA they will not be eligible to work. It will end the practice of 150 people using 1 Social Security number to work illegally. Employers that refuse to use the system should be prosecuted heavily.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

American citizens and legal residents are already in the government data bases, so it is not so difficult to use this data to crack down on illegals.

You get what you tolerate. If there is no tolerance for illegals they will leave for greener pastures. They will self deport when the game is over. Why waste money rounding them up when you can get them to leave voluntarily. Most of them paid money to come here and they will leave when the $$$ dry up.

I think by now most know what it will take to take a huge bite out of illegal immigration. It isn't rocket science nor will it involve any more inconvenience than most legal residents and citizens already go through to work legally in the USA.

but u know that systems arent flawless peejay, and you know some stupid joe will get someone that looks mexican and will say let's deport him, etc etc etc like its happening now in the airplanes, anyone that looks muslim (dark skin, big beard, talks funny) is considered a terrorist.. so, is it going to be worth the lawsuits and errors?

So I guess we should just let in 12 - 20 illegal aliens just in case we might make a couple of mistakes trying to stop them?

You know...there is a .000000000000001% chance that you could get killed by a meteor on the way to work. Maybe you should spend the rest of your life hiding under the covers in bed and just stay home the rest of your life? There is a .0000000000000000000000000001% chance of getting hit by a meteor there.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

Major issuse is lockin up banks to visitors too with that route. How do you verify they just visitor v illegal alien? Have them flash passport at all bank transactions??

I guess when all they can come up with that is half way legit is a Matricular Consular card...that might be a dead giveaway?

After all the ####### I had to go through to get my wife and stepdaughter legit ID...there really isn't any excuse. They did quite well when all they had were valid visas.

Hell...I gotta show my driver's license just to cash a check at the Piggley Wiggley. Give me a break!

lol, but you know the chance that ICE or the cops detain someone just because he/she looks mexican (therefore illegal) is way much bigger than the strike of a meteor.. so, waddaya propose for those according to you not probable cases? 'oh, sorry, my bad, i thought u were illegal'... 'oh, it's your fault for looking mexican'.. or are you gonna respond as a caucasian that will never live that.. 'oh well, having 1 or 2 mistakes is worth a sacrifice for a greater good'?

[peejay 327]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

It is extreme and this ain't 1950. There are better ways that are technologically feasable. Better to make it mandatory by law for businesses to use SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program and the Basic Pilot Program to verify employment eligibility for all workers in the USA. At present, Basic Pilot is voluntary. It should be mandatory along with tamperproof Social Security Cards. If someone is not legally in the USA they will not be eligible to work. It will end the practice of 150 people using 1 Social Security number to work illegally. Employers that refuse to use the system should be prosecuted heavily.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

American citizens and legal residents are already in the government data bases, so it is not so difficult to use this data to crack down on illegals.

You get what you tolerate. If there is no tolerance for illegals they will leave for greener pastures. They will self deport when the game is over. Why waste money rounding them up when you can get them to leave voluntarily. Most of them paid money to come here and they will leave when the $$$ dry up.

I think by now most know what it will take to take a huge bite out of illegal immigration. It isn't rocket science nor will it involve any more inconvenience than most legal residents and citizens already go through to work legally in the USA.

but u know that systems arent flawless peejay, and you know some stupid joe will get someone that looks mexican and will say let's deport him, etc etc etc like its happening now in the airplanes, anyone that looks muslim (dark skin, big beard, talks funny) is considered a terrorist.. so, is it going to be worth the lawsuits and errors?

So I guess we should just let in 12 - 20 illegal aliens just in case we might make a couple of mistakes trying to stop them?

You know...there is a .000000000000001% chance that you could get killed by a meteor on the way to work. Maybe you should spend the rest of your life hiding under the covers in bed and just stay home the rest of your life? There is a .0000000000000000000000000001% chance of getting hit by a meteor there.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

Major issuse is lockin up banks to visitors too with that route. How do you verify they just visitor v illegal alien? Have them flash passport at all bank transactions??

I guess when all they can come up with that is half way legit is a Matricular Consular card...that might be a dead giveaway?

After all the ####### I had to go through to get my wife and stepdaughter legit ID...there really isn't any excuse. They did quite well when all they had were valid visas.

Hell...I gotta show my driver's license just to cash a check at the Piggley Wiggley. Give me a break!

lol, but you know the chance that ICE or the cops detain someone just because he/she looks mexican (therefore illegal) is way much bigger than the strike of a meteor.. so, waddaya propose for those according to you not probable cases? 'oh, sorry, my bad, i thought u were illegal'... 'oh, it's your fault for looking mexican'.. or are you gonna respond as a caucasian that will never live that.. 'oh well, having 1 or 2 mistakes is worth a sacrifice for a greater good'?

In most of our exchanges you either flame the sh!t out of me or you pull the "poor downtrodden brown man" routine.

My grandparents lived in America as Russian immigrants in the deepest darkest days of the Cold War. They looked Slavic and had extremely heavy Russian peasant accents. Everybody has their crosses to bear.

[Marc and Olga 0]

Laurie Roberts - Arizona Republic

Rep. Russell Pearce has had a few decent ideas about illegal immigraion. He was right, for example, to push for employer sanctions and he almost got the bill passed, until his own GOP colleagues (with a little help from chamber lobbyists) ran him over. He's long been for a fence, another thing that many Arizonans will support.

This week, however, Pearce has gone flat out over the edge into looneyland. He's calling for a return to the 1950s and Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback".

"We know what we need to do," he said this week on KJZZ radio. "In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

For those who are no longer living in the 50s and thus may not know much about Operation Wetback, it was a national backlash that began as a result of a great migration of people illegally crossing the border to work in the fields. Headed by a general Eisenhower had appointed to run the INS, the crackdown involved sending the Border Patrol, the military and local police sweeping through agricultural fields and Mexican-American neighborhoods, randomly stopping anyone who looked like they might be Mexican and asking for ID. Those who couldn't prove they belonged, along with their American citizen children, were put on buses and ships and taken deep into Mexico to discourage them from returning.

Pearce wants to bring this back? What are we going to do, stop people on the street and ask them for their papers? Kick in the doors where darker skinned people live and demand birth certificates?

How do you do such a thing, Rep. Pearce, and still be America?

It is extreme and this ain't 1950. There are better ways that are technologically feasable. Better to make it mandatory by law for businesses to use SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program and the Basic Pilot Program to verify employment eligibility for all workers in the USA. At present, Basic Pilot is voluntary. It should be mandatory along with tamperproof Social Security Cards. If someone is not legally in the USA they will not be eligible to work. It will end the practice of 150 people using 1 Social Security number to work illegally. Employers that refuse to use the system should be prosecuted heavily.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

American citizens and legal residents are already in the government data bases, so it is not so difficult to use this data to crack down on illegals.

You get what you tolerate. If there is no tolerance for illegals they will leave for greener pastures. They will self deport when the game is over. Why waste money rounding them up when you can get them to leave voluntarily. Most of them paid money to come here and they will leave when the $$$ dry up.

I think by now most know what it will take to take a huge bite out of illegal immigration. It isn't rocket science nor will it involve any more inconvenience than most legal residents and citizens already go through to work legally in the USA.

but u know that systems arent flawless peejay, and you know some stupid joe will get someone that looks mexican and will say let's deport him, etc etc etc like its happening now in the airplanes, anyone that looks muslim (dark skin, big beard, talks funny) is considered a terrorist.. so, is it going to be worth the lawsuits and errors?

So I guess we should just let in 12 - 20 illegal aliens just in case we might make a couple of mistakes trying to stop them?

You know...there is a .000000000000001% chance that you could get killed by a meteor on the way to work. Maybe you should spend the rest of your life hiding under the covers in bed and just stay home the rest of your life? There is a .0000000000000000000000000001% chance of getting hit by a meteor there.

Making sure that individuals sending money out of the country are citizens or legal residents / visitors. This will ratchet up the heat even more. Pass laws to ensure banks no longer aid illegal aliens to easily make bank transactions unless they are legal residents.

Major issuse is lockin up banks to visitors too with that route. How do you verify they just visitor v illegal alien? Have them flash passport at all bank transactions??

I guess when all they can come up with that is half way legit is a Matricular Consular card...that might be a dead giveaway?

After all the ####### I had to go through to get my wife and stepdaughter legit ID...there really isn't any excuse. They did quite well when all they had were valid visas.

Hell...I gotta show my driver's license just to cash a check at the Piggley Wiggley. Give me a break!

lol, but you know the chance that ICE or the cops detain someone just because he/she looks mexican (therefore illegal) is way much bigger than the strike of a meteor.. so, waddaya propose for those according to you not probable cases? 'oh, sorry, my bad, i thought u were illegal'... 'oh, it's your fault for looking mexican'.. or are you gonna respond as a caucasian that will never live that.. 'oh well, having 1 or 2 mistakes is worth a sacrifice for a greater good'?

Why not, we have people claiming that it is ok when the people are "suspected" terrorist, it IS "their" fault for being Muslim or middle eastern looking, so why not have a few accidents where illegal immigration is concerned?

We are all for giving up our privacy to unreasonable wiretaps, let's toss that one in there also...

I'm not saying that we SHOULD do this but why not, we do those other things...

I'd like to know how YOU feel illegal "immigration" should be handled...since:

and I DONT SUPPORT illegal actions

edit:darn typos

Edited September 30, 2006 by Marc and Olga