Posted on 09/08/2010 7:21:00 PM PDT by butterdezillion
I suppose your attitude would be the same if you were the one being stopped and asked for your papers over and over again.
As an aside, illegal immigration is down 67%, and the number of illegal immigrants in the country has actually declined by 8%.
Between 2000 and 2005, an average of 850,000 people a year entered the United States without authorization, according to the report released Wednesday. As the economy plunged into recession between 2007 and 2009, that number fell to 300,000.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/pew_illegal_immigration_down_b.html
I'll end with this famous quote:
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
What I’d like to know is if we have a way of measuring how many illegal immigrants are entering, then why don’t we have a way of stopping them?
If I was a legal immigrant I would be furious with the people who were breaking the rules so nobody would know whether they could trust me or not.
It’s the same way I feel about hypocritical Christians who give the rest of us a bad name.
Because you posted a question querying what she would say. The question has little value unless you can explain why you care.
Well we do have ways of stopping them, they just weren't employed.
I live in a border state and am confident in the claim that illegal immigrant population has declined because I encounter (the person taking my order at Berger King speaks without an accent - stuff like that) far fewer foreign born people in my daily life.
If I was a legal immigrant I would be furious with the people who were breaking the rules so nobody would know whether they could trust me or not.
Many are.
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