And yet again trying to confuse the issues of legal versus illegal immigration.
No they are not, and if you read the article (novel idea, that!) you would see that it is not so.
You people want to START (and most of you want to FINISH) the debate by clear demarcations of legal v. illegal immigrants, and then you simply work to stop and expel the illegals. Simple. Problem solved.
We think that the REASON we have illegals is that our immigration policies are deeply flawed and don't comport with economic reality. In the process of STOPPING THE FLOW OF ILLEGALS (many of us support a wall/fence), we believe that it is a better idea to expand and control the legal flow of immigrants, and register the ones already here.
The problem is that the "hardliners" or whatever you want to call them are filled with venom, spite, and a willing refusal to do anything but stick their fingers in their ears and shriek "ILLEGAL, DEPORT!"
Reactions to freepers advocating anything other than this prove my point in spades. They are called traitors, spineless, America haters, quislings, fools, closed DU clones, liberals, and socialists, among other such rants. It might be charged that I - who love to bait the crazies - deserve all the venom. However, I have seen a whole crowd of new freepers come into these threads and have reasonable questions/challenges. The responses are the same.
Further, the hard line freepers don't make any attempt to "police" their own ranks, but refuse to speak up when the foam flecked crazies purport to speak for them. You have nutjobs who think all illegals are a part of La Raza, cretins who claim that one in ten illegals is a serious criminal, and shriveled up spiteful little haters who openly wish every illegal would die within a mile of crossing the border (all comments from this fine crew in the last 3 days).
No one from the "expel and deport" crew says anything about this kind of stuff. If you don't take out your own trash, don't be apalled when people drive by your house and hold their noses. They will, and you can sit in the living room in your moral superiority of being the only real patriots left, immune to the stench of the loons and your own self righteous preening.
America IS concerned about the borders, and should be. If you think that concern is evidence that they have joined you little Tancredo cabal, you have some very bitter awakenings coming up.