And they can pay their fair share of taxes. We can document them and if we want send them home. I still say we bill their host countries to pay for their hospital stays and prison/legal costs.

nah, if they are here legally then they are part of our system and should be treated just like everyone else. Legals should have every courtesy extended. Illegals get nada.

Hey, I was just wondering...do you know how your family got to America, Merc? Was it through the Bering Strait? Or by boat or something...and it had to be a legal immigration, cause god knows there was no such thing as illegal immigration at the turn of the 20th century!

so that's the tired old comment you want to drag out for your entrance to this thread? nice fresh. now would you care to actually comment on the issue being discussed or are you content to just snipe at those with an opinion?

well someone has their panties in a bunch today. I'll leave the thread. And btw I'm legal, so I don't need national guard escorting me.

No, don't take the easy way out, stay and add something to the discussion. Stop and think about the issue and actually put a solution out there that is more indepth than the last thing you overheard in the student union.

I'm not the most adept or interested concerning the issue but I'm for legal immigration, not locking down the borders and kicking out the illegals right now. Don't forget there is a percentage of illegals from Canada and Europe streaming in through the northern border.

Reasons not to kick them out: hospitality, restaurant, and landscaping industries would collapse. Not like there would be a shortage but those motherfuckers would fall from the sky. Construction would be heavily wounded. Just collecting them all and dumping them south of the border will do more harm than good. I'm not sure of the best solution is nor am I the most informed on the issues but it is not purging ourselves of illegals.

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Did you read this thread or did you just pop in to drop a retort to what you assume must be the solution white guys must come up with for the immigration issue?

NO ONE in this thread said anything about driving a paddy wagon around to drop them all to the other side of the border. NO ONE said that all illegals were mexican. NO ONE said anything about keeping immigrants out.

Now how about actually reading the fucking thread before you respond? And here's an idea - actually think through the issue yourself before you post, I'm certain you are capable of coming up with a better answer than the shit you hear regurgitated on your campus.

that's deep. Kind of like I'm for change, or I believe in hope. Quit listening to and regurgitating the shit spouted off on campus and actually think these things through.

My posts are in response to what Merc posted. Dude you need to chill out and not think we all get our info from the student union. Your panties are knotted so much, calm down. I said I'm not the most knowledgeable but then you go and scream at me for being a dumb college kid. Lighten up, mang.

You're equating illegal immigrants, who are human beings regardless of their legal status, with an infestation of ants now?

No, I'm presenting a situation for illustrative purposes.

Cookies are an incentive for ants to enter my house. Jobs are an incentive for illegals to break the law and enter my country. I certainly don't suggest we start spraying raid in random illegals' faces. That would just be rude.;)

Damn right it would ! :P And that would spoil America's worldwide reputation for friendly folksy welcomes.

I think we're fairly welcoming to people who are here legally.

Although I do reserve the right to shoot you if you look different. Different than what you ask? That's for me to know, so you just watch your step.

I wasn't kidding about that worldwide reputation. Everybody I have ever heard talk about visits stateside have commented on how freindly people were.