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Second, do your CA friends want the Illegals here, or gone?

I live in California and while I don't think that people should enter this country illegally, I do have to say this; California produces half of the fruit and vegetables that the country consumes. It's mostly these illegals that tend these crops. These are jobs that no one else here will do. These people do serve a purpose.

I do also have to say this; for the most part, I would say that Mexicans are very decent, honest, hard working people. They are people who love their families. I have no hard feelings when it comes to them. They come here, do work that no other Americans will do, and then send money back to their families back in Mexico, or return back to their families.

They come here, do work that no other Americans will do, and then send money back to their families back in Mexico, or return back to their families.

Right! And the President's hated "Amnesty" is for a few people (not the thousands implied by the haters), who have become illegal because of Government red tape, after being here legally, so that they can be reunited with their families.

It's only a bad thing if you have disdain for Mexicans as a whole, and don't want any of them in the United States.

I do also have to say this; for the most part, I would say that Mexicans are very decent, honest, hard working people. They are people who love their families. I have no hard feelings when it comes to them. They come here, do work that no other Americans will do, and then send money back to their families back in Mexico, or return back to their families.

On average, Mexicans are very decent, honest, hard working people like anybody else.

However, illegals should be sent home and legal immigration should be reduced.

I live in California and while I don't think that people should enter this country illegally, I do have to say this; California produces half of the fruit and vegetables that the country consumes. It's mostly these illegals that tend these crops. These are jobs that no one else here will do. These people do serve a purpose.

Because illegals are working menial jobs they should get to skirt the law? Does that apply to all of us or just illegals?

I do also have to say this; for the most part, I would say that Mexicans are very decent, honest, hard working people. They are people who love their families. I have no hard feelings when it comes to them. They come here, do work that no other Americans will do, and then send money back to their families back in Mexico, or return back to their families.

When I was a kid I worked summers on farms picking produce (garlic and straw berries ect). There were quite a few mexican families out there as well doing the work. They were all legal, the farmers were very strict about that. They worked hard, a lot harder than us kids did, and got paid well. Nowadays there are hundreds of illegals out in the fields picking away for very little pay and no local kids are hired anymore. The price of our fruits hasn't changed (actually StrawBerries were up 10% last year after adjusting for inflation) and the quality has gone down dramatically.

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