Comments on: Poll: Mexicans More Likely to Come to U.S. if Granted Amnesty

By: North face jackets

North face jackets — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:35:32 +0000

The Democrats have to do two things. Put people to work, even if it means another WPA. Put people to

By: Water Damage Jacksonville

Water Damage Jacksonville — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:53:29 +0000

Everyone knows what the question means, and if anyone thought it meant that we'd have open borders then they'd have to explain the use of “going to the U.S. as indocumentados”. If we had open borders, then there'd be no such thing as “indocumentados”.

By: spytheweb

spytheweb — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:16:26 +0000

So you think new illegals won't come because a amnesty would only be for those who have been here for a few years? New illegals will think, come to America and wait it out for the next amnesty. 5, 6 or ten years. Meanwhile have a few kids, on the tax payer, you can use to sure up your case for citizenship.

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By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:22:25 +0000

Well, 'duh'!

Any reduction in enforcement of immigration controls, or 'harrassment' of illegal aliens WILL mean an increase in entrants. This is a no-brainer. The only people who benefit from torrents of border-hoppers are the real estate, construction and financial sectors (more warm bodies equal more housing and associated infrastructure, plus the funding behind them), plus businessmen fond of cheap, compliant labor. Everyone else suffers: urban sprawl, higher food and housing prices, and crime. Along with all those anchor baby-poppers also come people like the Mexican Mafia and the even worse, Central American MS-13. Thanks to illegal immigration, there are actually more Chicano gangbangers on LA streets than cops. America's idiotic amnesty for Cubans has turned sleepy, Southern Florida into a dumpster for all the Cuban gangsters that Fidel Castro wisely didn't want.

If Americans want to keep housing and food affordable, keep their well-paid jobs, keep their streets safe from gun-toting, foreign-born gangsters, prevent urban sprawl, keep publically-funded social programs solvent and keep their culture intact, they'll do everything in their power to fight illegal immigration.

By: self-promoting racists suck

self-promoting racists suck — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:30:44 +0000

Has 24Ahead asked to see his Queen O RLY's green card yet?

By: wayoutwest

wayoutwest — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:37:09 +0000

n65321, Your link was informative but more than 10yr old. It stated that 35-40% of the cost for produce was labor, that's more than, not much.

The information i have seen in recent years about the lack of sufficient labor to harvest crops is cause for concern. The cost was projected at 20 billion dollars a year for crops that weren't harvested because of lack of labor. This is a huge cost for farmers and consumers.

Here in NM we don't have enough labor to pick our chile crops. A new mechanical picker will help but it means a lower harvest because of only one picking.

I saw a story on a NJ onion farm last year where the lack of labor left one million onions rotting in the fields. These are not isolated insidents it is a national problem.

Food prices are already high and are going higher even in this recession. What we do about immigration will affect prices throughout the economy so we need to do what's smart not what feels good.

These seasonial jobs used to be taken by high school kids and migrant workers. Try to get a highschool kid to do hard labor these days. Migrants are educating their kids so they have better opportunities.

Blaming poor people for our problems is not new and does nothing to solve the problems we face.

By: Bullfighter

Bullfighter — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:37:48 +0000

All you have to do is examine what a toilet Latin America is. That is where these people came from. Do you think they will really improve the US when they can't take care of their own countries? Mexico quadrupled it's population in the last 60 years. That's why Latin America stinks. Every first rate country has low birthrates. But these people are still living in the Aztec world.

By: n6532l

n6532l — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:09:07 +0000

Think about it. How much labor, as a percentage of total cost, is involved in delivering fresh produce and chickens? Not much. And not all of it is supplied by illegal aliens. More important who benefits from the cheap labor? You think producers pass the savings on to you? Get real! They pocket the savings and you pay the same. When produce goes to market it is not labeled as to whether illegal labor was used. It commands the market price. The user of illegal labor pockets more then the honest producer. You pay the same. That is the same plus the public services illegals use. In California that is about $10 billion dollars a year to subsidize producers.

If that does not convince see “how much is that tomato in the window” at http://www.cis.org/articles/1996/back296.htm

By: n6532l

n6532l — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:53:27 +0000

Yes Reagan’s amnesty did require immigrants to be in the United States for several years but that was ignored by illegals. The Congress did not provide adequate resources to check the claims made. Once a utility bill was accepted as proof of years in the country the country it was shared among newly arrived friends and forged for others. The path of least resistance for the government bureaucrat was to approve whatever flimsy evidence was provided. If you compare the number of amnesty seekers with the man-hours allocated to review their claim it is well lass than an hour per claim.

Even worse, once a person became legal under the Reagan amnesty he sent for his family to cross the border illegally and join him.