Plan B: Enforce the law ...

chicagotribune.com ^ | August 20, 2007 | Editorial

[Congressman Billybob]

All parts of the illegal immigration disaster are related. The invasion of America will continue until we Americans decide to stop it. And to do that, we will have to run over a fair number of elected politicians (plus a handful of judges). But until we do that, American government will be effectively in the hands of aliens, concerning immigration.

Congressman Billybob

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[detch]

Why should illegals have a “path to citizenship?”

Register them, and once registered, let them work here, but NOT AS CITIZENS. If they want citizenship, they should have to leave and return through proper immigration channels.

The working part is ok. The automatic path to being a DEMOCRAT is not. That is why NO Democrats are involved in national security at the southern border.

[hermgem]

For the Tribune to call a storefront a church is a large step by itself.
Then go on to keep defending this repeat illegal entrant to this country is to top things off.
Lets remove tax exempt status of such law violators and when found not paying taxes due, turn off utilities then property forfeiture.
We the people do have rights for secure borders.

[hermgem]

I agree with you about Geraldo. Same for me, he gets turned off.

[JWinNC]

re: 2

Indeed, the vast majority of the country appears united on this issue.

jw

[Don Corleone]

If she wants to be with her kid....take him back to Mexico where he will be a welcome gringo americano pig and entitled to all the rights and privledges thereof.

[VR-21]

"If she had been a fit mother she would have taken her son with her."

Right on! That woman, like most who have anchor babies to ensure their ability to stay here are merely using the child as a prop. I hold an extra measure of contempt for those illegals who try to portray their criminal presence in this country as a human rights issue.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Register them, and once registered, let them work here, but NOT AS CITIZENS. If they want citizenship, they should have to leave and return through proper immigration channels."

Thou hast the right of it! A "path to legality" is absolutely as far as I'm willing to take "amnesty" (and that only when all other avenues of enforcing our current laws have been tried and provably failed to work). NO citizenship outside the normal legal process.

[bennowens]

Right on! Jerry Rivers is in the “No Fly” zone at my home as well. My hand goes for the remote immediately at the mention of his name.

[pierrem15]

All of these complaints tell you what social class the journos think that they belong to. So what they are doing is masking their own self-interest in cheap labor as magnanimity, and paying for it by denying better-paying jobs to native born Americans.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“All of these complaints tell you what social class the journos think that they belong to. So what they are doing is masking their own self-interest in cheap labor as magnanimity, and paying for it by denying better-paying jobs to native born Americans.”

We have a WINNER!

[pierrem15]

As our political class knows, it's always easier to be magnanimous with someone else's money.

You get to spend all that money to buy votes, err, I mean 'help the needy' and 'invest in infrastructure', and then you get to feel good about yourself and give others moral lectures about their responsibility 'to the community', all to the approving cooing of the large primates in journalism and amongst your peers.

Sometimes I think the only difference between the ape-men at the beginning of 2001 A Space Odyssey and our current political, business and journalistic elites is the gabardine suits.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Sometimes I think the only difference between the ape-men at the beginning of 2001 A Space Odyssey and our current political, business and journalistic elites is the gabardine suits.”

Correct again!