First of all, I'd love to see any citation on ANYTHING you've ever claimed about illegals, especially about you having to pay more insurance cost. You obviously don't understand how insurance works to believe that one.

We're in a natural recession due to a lot of things that have nothing to do with illegal immigrants. I'm not at all surprised that you go to the lengths that you do to blame every problem you see on illegals. I also noticed that you didn't read my other thread, because I'm looking for a new job because I don't like my current job.

Let's see, next you reference more drivel of illegals costing American tax payers money. Again, wrongly assuming that just because you are here illegally, that you must be automatically be a leach. You fall talk about how illegals take advantage of social programs, yet aren't documented enough to pay any taxes.

Next, you mention that your family came here legally, so that means you've earned the right to be here. You didn't earn anything. You are just as much of an anchor baby as anyone else who happened to have been born here. Your legal status is a coincidence of circumstance. You're no better than a Mexican anchor baby that was born here as a coincidence of circumstance due to their parents illegal actions. I know it makes you angry to hear that, but it is completely true.

Next you mention that slaves where brought here against their will. I must have missed the part where all the minors in Mexico were allowed a vote of whether they wanted their parents to drag them through the desert, across the boarder. Perhaps the pregnant mother asked her fetus which country it would like to have been born in before she popped him/her out?

I'm not going to fault you for putting words in my mouth, since you obviously can't grasp the point that I'm trying to make here.

What I honestly believe is that you don't have a clue as to solve the problem that you don't even fully understand. The scope of this issue is much larger than either you or I can explain (or else we'd each be writing reform bills instead of arguing about it). I honestly believe that "solutions" that you've suggested are short sighted at best. I suppose an analogy would be that while just throwing people into jail for drug use is a punishment, it does absolutely nothing to address the issue of the drug use itself.

To be clear, I'm not asking you to come up with solutions to address our immigration issue (mostly because I don't think you're capable), I'm just critiquing the ideas you've suggested thus far. In the event that you actually suggest something that is more than short sighted and less than well thought out, at best, then I'll be the first person to commend you on the great idea.

For what it is worth, I don't disagree with the idea of immediately deporting someone who has committed a crime and is shown to have come from another country. If they aren't documented, but aren't documented anywhere else, then that person is our problem to deal with. I just don't know if our law enforcement has the authority or ability to ship people back to Mexico if they are caught breaking the law. I have a feeling that the 747 full of illegals was the result of a Federal Immigration investigation, and not just local law enforcement. Plus, you have to have the same punishment for everyone. So when that guy from China who over stayed his summer vacation gets busted doing something, you're going to have to deport him as well. The question is, are you going to hold onto him until you have a whole airplane full of illegal Chinese to send home? Or are you going to have an escort send him home on a plane full of civilians?