[Reagan Man]

Thanks for your San Diego perspective, cgk.

Most foreigners who enter the US illegally, come here not to integrate into American society, but mainly to get find work. They disrupt our employment process, undermine our social welfare system and basically steal from the American people. Not to mention drug running and other related criminal activities associated with ilegal immigration, that includes possible terrorist activities.

We see today in Iraq what a small band of insurgents can accomplish. If things don't go the right way for these militant Hispanic groups, can you imagine what serious trouble they're capable of making for the American people. IMHO, that serious is just around the corner.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

The argument against the Left that I have yet to hear is this:

the illegals, regardless of the euphemistic ways of referring to their employment, are "working under the table."

Many have done so and I don't think anyone who has, disliked it. You are willing to work for far less pay if it is under-the-table -- because you are paying no taxes and therefore taking home far more than you would.

The argument has been made that the American people who think they're saving money with the cheap labor are not, that they simply pay it through a back-door they can't see, through social services.

But you'd think the Left would be really ticked that all these workers are not paying taxes, which is the raison d'etre of the Left. I know they'll excuse it saying they are the poor and oppressed, etc. ad nauseum. But the fact is they are only contributing halfway to the Socialist state they are trying to implement by forcing a redistribution from Americans but not paying into the State.