[ItisaReligionofPeace]

The point is that this is not the Soviet Union. If some s.o.b. walked up to me and asked me out of the clear blue for my papers, I'd tell him to go straight to hell. If we want to cut back on the problem, we need to stop giving social services to illegals. We can also go to job sites and ask the owners for documentation for each employee (i.e. ss#).

[FITZ]

Nasir Ahmed was behind the counter at Amei Halaal Market on St. John Street when agents walked in and told everyone, employees and customers alike, to get out their passports and green cards. Ahmed said some patrons eating lunch in the Somali market bolted out the back door - not because they were undocumented, but because they were scared to death.

"How would you feel if you went to McDonald's and got asked for ID while you were eating your food? That's what happened here," Ahmed asked. "Now, less people come in. We lost a lot of customers."

The agents didn't go into a McDonald's --- they went into a foreign market place to look for foreigners who might not be here legally or for the right reasons. They weren't bothering Americans, not trying to bother Americans. If you're an American in one of these places, they can pick that up quite quickly.

[sweetliberty]

"We can also go to job sites and ask the owners for documentation for each employee (i.e. ss#)."

There are a couple of problems with that. First, many of these illegals are working for cash...no need for SS#'s. With businesses where they do have to have them, if they're not verified, they're not worth the paper they're written on and the employer cannot be held liable because he did, after all, see the proper "documentation."

[Sci Fi Guy]

The point is that this is not the Soviet Union. If some s.o.b. walked up to me and asked me out of the clear blue for my papers, I'd tell him to go straight to hell....

Ok, you do that. the next time a cop pulls you over on a traffic stop, tell him where to go. And don't forget to include that he's an S.O.B.