Angry with these protests

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The media portrays these illegal immigrants as hard workers, sure they are! Heck one illegal immigrant even admits that he *loves* paying his taxes. Sure he does! Why wouldn't he? His wife has cancer and receives the best *FREE* medical care from hospitals/oncologists, his son receives *FREE* education and *FREE* emergency care when he needed surgery. Of course he doesn't mind paying his taxes, what's a couple of $$$ compared to free healthcare and education?

In the long run, this is going to hurt the economy. I wish the media would focus on that, the healthcare cost is rising as it tries to accommodate undocumented immigrants. Millions of dollars are spent caring for people who are here illegally. Likewise, the quality of education will deteriorate as more schools try to focus on teaching English, rather than concentrating on improving the curriculum.

I don't think everybody sees the bigger picture.

I wish the media would better dilineate the difference between legal and illegal immigration.

I've seen a lot of so-called immigrants being interviewed on TV, and it seems to me that their opinions are being presented as though they speak for the entire immigrant community, legal and illegal. I'm not sure I like being misrepresented like that...

[Sinergy 3]

I should have rented a white van and put this on the side

made a jacket like this

and drove to some protests.

[PsychoKat 0]

You know what I wish we could see? I wish that when these illegals protest tomorrow the INS shows up with a few hundred buses and start rounding up the ones without green cards. Then just drive them to the border and kick them out. I think we would see a lot less protesting then.

Rounding up everyone without green cards would not be appropriate. Those that enter the country on the K-3 visa adjust status after they arrive and have to wait for their green cards. If they did what you feel they should do, they could be shipping people out of the country that are here legally and have struggled through this process as we all are. Not everyone here legally has a green card.

I think you know what I meant. Anyone that isn't here legaly should be rounded up and sent packing. I still stand behind the idea.

I felt the need to comment about this because there are a lot of people taking this stand, and I've actually heard of some trying to do this themselves. Recently on the way to work a guy called into the local radio station proud that he was going out looking for hispanics, offering them construction jobs and a ride to the site then dropping them off at the immigration office demanding they be deported.

Although he had no way of knowing if they were illegal or not, he had decided for himself that if they were hispanic, they were here illegally should all be rounded up deported and if the government wasn't going to do it he would. Amazingly the DJ cheered him on and backed up his stance.

This bothers me greatly

I think it's safe to say that there will be a predominant number of illegals protesting today.

I'm sure there will be, but I know from watching other forums regarding this issue that there will also be people who have run into road blocks attempting to follow through legal immigration, and that they, and their legal spouses and familes will be joining hoping to show there is more to this than just a ppl coming here to work. Unfortunately what they are trying to say most likely will be drown by all the rest

I should have rented a white van and put this on the side

made a jacket like this

and drove to some protests.

Hehe last time Steve came to visit, the first day here he went to take the trash out and a guy pulled up in a white van wearing an FBI hat acting odd and asking directions. Think they were checking to see if he really did come here like he said he would

[Fandango 1,439]

I'm sure there will be, but I know from watching other forums regarding this issue that there will also be people who have run into road blocks attempting to follow through legal immigration, and that they, and their legal spouses and familes will be joining hoping to show there is more to this than just a ppl coming here to work. Unfortunately what they are trying to say most likely will be drown by all the rest

I can't see why anyone with LEGAL immigration issues would want to be associated with this...

Furthermore, are you saying you don't think the illegals protesting today should be deported? Would you have a problem with ICE being there & rounding up ppl?

What you described before with the guy calling the station is a bit of vigilantism (is that even a word? lol), and I don't agree with that...but I do agree that illegals who have the absolute gall to show their faces & try to use our right to protest should be sent packing.

[GaryC 7]

Amnesty will not work. Reagan tried that 20 years ago and it got us this mess. The ONLY solution is to ENFORCE our laws!!!! This country is nothing if we let a whole group of people thumb their noses at our laws. It's just to bad if it breaks up families. They got themselves in this position to start with. EVERYONE that is here illegally should be sent home now. Period. And never allowed back. That is our law.

If you think that the laws should not apply to everyone then buy your SO a ticket to Mexico and walk them across the border. Why bother with all this paperwork and trouble?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Amnesty will not work. Reagan tried that 20 years ago and it got us this mess. The ONLY solution is to ENFORCE our laws!!!! This country is nothing if we let a whole group of people thumb their noses at our laws. It's just to bad if it breaks up families. They got themselves in this position to start with. EVERYONE that is here illegally should be sent home now. Period. And never allowed back. That is our law.

If you think that the laws should not apply to everyone then buy your SO a ticket to Mexico and walk them across the border. Why bother with all this paperwork and trouble?

I'm not saying I agree with it - but you will never see a democratically elected government of the US supporting a policy that will result in the mass deportation of millions of people. It will cause widespread rioting.

[Fandango 1,439]

I'm sure there will be, but I know from watching other forums regarding this issue that there will also be people who have run into road blocks attempting to follow through legal immigration, and that they, and their legal spouses and familes will be joining hoping to show there is more to this than just a ppl coming here to work. Unfortunately what they are trying to say most likely will be drown by all the rest

I can't see why anyone with LEGAL immigration issues would want to be associated with this...

Furthermore, are you saying you don't think the illegals protesting today should be deported? Would you have a problem with ICE being there & rounding up ppl?

What you described before with the guy calling the station is a bit of vigilantism (is that even a word? lol), and I don't agree with that...but I do agree that illegals who have the absolute gall to show their faces & try to use our right to protest should be sent packing.

I want to clarify so I don't offend anyone that I shouldn't have used the words 'rounded up' as if ppl are cattle. It has come to my attn that I have upset a friend of mine, and I don't wish to do that, so I retract that wording.

These illegal immigrants should be collected & deported. Now I really am going to work!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I'm sure there will be, but I know from watching other forums regarding this issue that there will also be people who have run into road blocks attempting to follow through legal immigration, and that they, and their legal spouses and familes will be joining hoping to show there is more to this than just a ppl coming here to work. Unfortunately what they are trying to say most likely will be drown by all the rest

I can't see why anyone with LEGAL immigration issues would want to be associated with this...

Furthermore, are you saying you don't think the illegals protesting today should be deported? Would you have a problem with ICE being there & rounding up ppl?

What you described before with the guy calling the station is a bit of vigilantism (is that even a word? lol), and I don't agree with that...but I do agree that illegals who have the absolute gall to show their faces & try to use our right to protest should be sent packing.

I want to clarify so I don't offend anyone that I shouldn't have used the words 'rounded up' as if ppl are cattle. It has come to my attn that I have upset a friend of mine, and I don't wish to do that, so I retract that wording.

These illegal immigrants should be collected & deported. Now I really am going to work!

No sweat. People like to act offended to distract away from the issue at hand. We know what 'rounded-up' means.

[GaryC 7]

It seems that my stance has angered someone also. I understand that this is a hot button subject for some people. But facts are facts. If someone came here knowingly violating our immigration laws then they should not be allowed to stay. I am sorry if that offends people caught up in all of this. But illegal choices have consequences.

[De & Al 0]

I am sure that if they had there way they would have already submitted applications to became a legal alien. However they are not as lucky as our spouses, or fiancés, they are here already, and some for a long time, and if you consider the fact that whether South American or Central American, they are Americans born in this continent

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I am sure that if they had there way they would have already submitted applications to became a legal alien. However they are not as lucky as our spouses, or fiancés, they are here already, and some for a long time, and if you consider the fact that whether South American or Central American, they are Americans born in this continent

So can a US Citizen move to South or Central America and start landscaping work? How many hours would I last before the local police rounded me up and sent me to jail? Be honest now. This is my continent too.

[GaryC 7]

I am sure that if they had there way they would have already submitted applications to became a legal alien. However they are not as lucky as our spouses, or fiancés, they are here already, and some for a long time, and if you consider the fact that whether South American or Central American, they are Americans born in this continent

But this isn't the United States of the American Continent. If anyone wants to be here then they MUST follow the rules or we are no longer a sovern nation!

[PsychoKat 0]

I'm sure there will be, but I know from watching other forums regarding this issue that there will also be people who have run into road blocks attempting to follow through legal immigration, and that they, and their legal spouses and familes will be joining hoping to show there is more to this than just a ppl coming here to work. Unfortunately what they are trying to say most likely will be drown by all the rest

I can't see why anyone with LEGAL immigration issues would want to be associated with this...

Furthermore, are you saying you don't think the illegals protesting today should be deported? Would you have a problem with ICE being there & rounding up ppl?

What you described before with the guy calling the station is a bit of vigilantism (is that even a word? lol), and I don't agree with that...but I do agree that illegals who have the absolute gall to show their faces & try to use our right to protest should be sent packing.

The people with legal immigration issues are associated with this because, due to the roadblocks concerning waivers and denials and trying to work through are trying to draw attention to the problems they are facing in trying ot keep their families together. While working through these issues their spouses are not in legal status.

I would have a problem with ICE being there and rounding them up mainly due to the humane side of things. It might sound effective until you consider the possiblity of some kid coming home from school to an empty house and no idea that mom and dad were deported at the rally they attended while he was in school. Or a small child left in daycare while their parents attended only to never come home.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It seems that my stance has angered someone also. I understand that this is a hot button subject for some people. But facts are facts. If someone came here knowingly violating our immigration laws then they should not be allowed to stay.

No they shouldn't. But it's not one person is it - its several million people, the population of a good-sized american city.

I'm just saying that a sense of realism has to prevail here. Mass deportations will not happen under a democractically elected government - and the sort of government that would endorse it is not one that I think any of us would want.

The sheer financial costs of the deportation process (via the courts) would be prohibitive, not to mention civil unrest from breaking up families. It simply isn't realistic.

If you really want to solve this problem, it will involve significantly tightening laws and reforming law enforcement agencies to better enforce them. There's no 'quick fix' here unfortunately.

[metinspain 0]

Today has been really hard. It has been almost two months since I last saw Paul. And every single day for that time, I am faced with probably close to a million illegals here in Los Angeles demanding 'their' rights. What about my rights? I'm doing things the right way...and it is costing me not only money but precious time away from my husband and him time away from his only child. It is so damned frustrating. And if I say anything that makes me racist. Despite having two children of Mexican-American descent and one of African. There is a legal way of doing things...and all of us that are following it are being penalized for doing so it seems. I'm tired of being the bad guy...and having to bite my tongue. It ain't right. I can't even get a job in my field at the local hospital cause I don't speak their language in MY country. ARGGGGHHHHHHHH!!! Sorry I just needed to blow off some steam before I explode with the frustration of doing the right thing while seeing all these illegals getting away with it.

Terri O'Neale

Definitely well said. It is so good to know others feel the same as I do about this situation!