I say “come on in”.

Legally, only.

Larry Kudlow?

Oh there’s a top shelf intellect if ever there was one … last I heard, Kudlow was advocating a return to the feudal system.

Oh weight, you’re part of Pajamas Media … never mind, facts don’t matter to you.

And it was always my understanding that marriage of an American and foreign citizen gave the foreigner a permenant green card, not citizenship.

You are mistaken.

Why is it xenophobic for some Americans to boycott Mexican products when advocates of illegal immigration have urged Mexicans still living in Mexico (are there any) to boycott American products.

I may not be, but one thing you may want to consider that it has been reported that dumping of agricultural products by the US into Mexico under NAFTA has wreaked havoc on the indigenous Mexican agricultural industry, and that is one reason why we have seen significant increases in illegal immigration from Mexico into the US in recent years. Mexicans boycotting of American agricultural products would seem to be a not-unreasonable defensive measure.

If a terrorist organization really wanted to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the US, or anywhere else for that matter, they probably could have obtained one from one of the former Soviet republics–or even NKorea–and done it by now. Recall that the USSR dissolved some 15 years ago.

What Timothy McVeigh showed us was that it is relatively simple to develop a truly powerful bomb out of rather mundane components–in his case ammonium nitrate (basically fertilizer) and fuel oil, both of which are already available in the US.

It may be time to lighten up and to do so I’m passing on a little humor that came in my e-mail the other day:

A major earthquake hit the Mexico City area, leveling much of the city and its suburbs and killing 4,000,000 Mexicans.

Several countries are dispatching search crews to the scene. Canada and the European Union are sending money and food supplies. Japan is sending thousands of tents and cots.

The United States is sending 4,000,000 Mexicans to replace those lost.

#19 Erik — May 3, 2006 @ 4:19 pm - May 3, 2006

However, I would like to see the government secure both the northern and southern borders with sensors that can detect whether nuclear material is attempting to cross, more so than whether actual humans are

Just to point out, fertilizer and fuel oil can do a lot of damage, as Timothy McVeigh showed in OKC.

However, I would like to see the government secure both the northern and southern borders with sensors that can detect whether nuclear material is attempting to cross, more so than whether actual humans are. It may be that illegal immigration can not be stopped due to the current Mexican economic climate, but the smuggling of nuclear materials must be prevented.

That said, illegal immigration is not a debate that fires me up. After all, I like Taco Bell and Shakira. LOL

Err. no. Bush wants a semi-permanent underclass. The bill that would making helping illegal aliens a felony (which is what started the protests) was submitted by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican.

Are the spouses here entirely illegally then, or would they at least have a visa of some kind?

They aren’t here at all — at least not the ones I know.

There are 12-million to twenty-million people with families undocumented or with false papers in the United States. Ten-percent of the citizens of Republic Mexico are here in the United States legally or illegally. The tens of millions of Mexican-heritage live here legally as immigrants or citizens have relatives south of the Border. Hundreds of thousands of the illegally-resident Mexicans have US citizen-children or spouses. You can’t just “build a wall” right through the heart of this trans-border society. Nor can you “just” deport them. The last Western society that attempted to round-up 12-million “outsiders” from within it’s own borders and culture ended-badly. Are we to become yet another enlightened-yet-doomed culture with dreaded “knocks on the door in the middle of the night” and “ihre Ausweis, bitte”?

And it’s not just the Mexicans and the Salvadorans. There are 500,000 Chinese here illegally, including tens of thousands that have been found but China refuses to repatriate. Here in New Jersey, the Mexicans account for approx. 75,000 of the 355,000 undocumented or “irregular” residents. Shall we round-up the Canadians, the Irish next?

If the issue is natinal security, then we shoud concentrate on regularizing their status, not deportations and crushing fines. The greatest danger to our lives and way-of-life are the Islamofascists, not the stoop-laborers and the office-cleaners. If the way to enter the Unitesd States as a guest-worker or potential immigrant were easy and efficient; then they would not have to cross the borders in the middle of the Arizona desert. Or risk death by suffication in trans-Pacific shipping containers.

We must find the way to get them registered, biometrically-ID’d, on the tax-rolls, and licensed and insured. If they have legal status, it eliminates the means by which they are exploited…and eliminates the means by which their employers unfairly compete economically. And once the system is in-place, we shoud have a strict, vigorous campaign against the employers who contine to use “illegal workers” outside of the system.

#12 - Randy, sorry but that’s yet another crazy comment - apparently you have forgotten the Clinton era’s Nannygate scandal.

And, as I pointed out in #7, it is actually the GOP who are slightly more in favor of the proposals for amnesty at this point. (Their grassroots rebellion saying “But not without border security!” is just that, a grassroots rebellion.)

Not only that, but the person can not go visit their family in their native country without losing the right to come back. Our rules and the organizations that regulate them are intentionally bad.

Republican’s are using the immigration issue to divide the electorate the same way they used gay marriage in 2004.

My comment was in reference to the issue of illegal immigration; “illegal” meaning no Green Card, no permit/visa, etc.

For the record, I do agree that it is unjust that gays can’t marry (or “civilly unify”) their partner and get them through U.S. immigration legally, that way.

It’s a popular myth that marrying somebody gets them citizenship, but a myth nonetheless. Your spouse doesn’t even get special consideration, much less citizenship. I know far too many people who, after years of paying immigration atty fees, still have spouses who are not citizens, and most likely, never will be.