You are deflecting - get back to the topic. It sounds like you support Amnesty.

One question you need to answer - there are 6 billion people in the world - if half are in poverty should we let 3 billion in?

The numbers! Americans have no appreciation for the numbers! Too many, too poor, too uneducated and we soon will be too many, too poor and too uneducated if Newt and Amnesty backers get their way.

Unbecoming - you are right. All the words they use to disguise "amnesty" is their ploy to get foolish Americans to support them. Every time they say comprenhensive immigration reform - we have to say much louder - "amnesty for illegal aliens" and call them on their treachery. And it is treachery - by fostering amnesty they are putting us all at risk - everyone seems to forget the 19 terrorists who brought down the the Twin Towers on 9/11.

Thank you Ashrak - you are exactly right.

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Just because John and Newt want cheap labor is no excuse for breaking the law and being granted any benefits. As for your false argument of being humane - you mention not breaking up a family - who says we want to break up any family - on the contrary they should all stay together and self-deport together once employers are not allowed to hire illegal aliens. By trying to make your argument the "humane" argument - you surreptitiously try to take the high ground and anyone else is less than humane. Shame on you.

Last thing - if I didn't want to pay my taxes and I was really good at not being caught for years and years and years, but I made a great life for myself and I created and wonderful and otherwise law-abiding family - would the government grant me amnesty because I was better at cheating and stealing than my poor schlub neighbor who just started cheating the government last year. Get real! I would be headed to Federal Prison faster than you can say, "illegal". Go back to the drawing board - your argument if full of leaks and sinking.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! I like Newt but he is wrong and John you are dead wrong. What part of illegal and alien do you not understand? Attrition through enforcement is the only sane and legal way to solve this problem.

In a nutshell, attrition through enforcement would solve this problem in short order. It entails jailing employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens and also having a mandatory e-verify system for employment (fining employers will not work because they will pass along the cost to us). The second part is a working entry/exit Visa system that tracks people who overstay their Visas. Third - no benefits of any kind for illegal aliens. Fourth - we need to follow the original intent of the 14th amendment and end anchor babies being granted citizenship.
Fifth - build the fence once and for all. If these steps were followed - illegal aliens would self-deport and our illegal alien problem would be solved. If Newt wants to be President he will heed my advice and change his tune and support "Attrition through Enforcement".

Agreed - we are suppose to be a Republic and when States Rights are being trounced upon - it is the duty of the citizens not to bury their collective heads in the sand. Lee was a Patriot in the truest sense of the word.

Liberalism is a disease - that is how! It is akin to being ignorant of the facts. They are ruled by emotion. Oh, and remember her constituency are the same ones that couldn't poke a hole and knock out a chad.

Simply a Nancy wannabe without the botox.

I respected Hillsdale College until I read your columns on illegal alien immigration. I now know you don't even use logic in your own reasoning. You set up a straw-man argument about rounding up and deporting 12 million illegal aliens and then you go on to call anyone who wants to crack down on illegal behavior collectivists. One thing this discussion points out is that elitists like you are the collectivists. You all want open borders. Well sir - without borders you have no country. Most of the people here who object to you are asking is for enforcement of current laws - we aren't asking for increased bureacracy.

By the way the argument you set up about prejudice against Yolanda Garcia or hispanics is another strawman. If our border were with Polish speaking people and those illegal alien Poles were illegally entering our country and ignoring our laws and sponging off the welfare system and we had to have everything written in Polish as well as English on ballots and grocery stores then you bet we would be looking for people with Polish accents as potential illegal aliens.

What LIBERALS like you (and you are not a Libertarian) don't understand is simple statistics. If more illegals are hispanic then it stands to reason we would be looking for hispanics as potential illegal aliens. What you suggest is the fiasco we have at airports - because we are too politically correct to screen for Muslims then every one of us has to be inconvenienced. I'm sorry but if you run an immigration system like you suggest then we will end up with a worse system than we have now.