“First, if all of these immigrants had been convicted of other crimes, what good was done by returning them to society only to break down their doors months or years later in a raid?”

Just why do you think they weren’t deported right away? Could it be the much vaunted “due process”? I agree that justice delayed is justice denied - illegal immigrants should ALL be deported IMMEDIATELY! If they have committed additional crimes then deport them even quicker.

I applaud this article for one thing and one thing only: The fact that they used the term “illegal immigrants” as opposed to “undocumented workers”. Thank you for using the correct term because these people are, in fact, here illegally and should be found, especially if they commit additional crimes. It is sad that our state cannot deport them as quickly, but I say better late than never.

Yet another BH editorial that I strongy disagree with. Keep up the good work!

When I read about immigration issues in your paper I invariably find the comments of supporters of the illegal immigrants. These comments unfailingly portray the illegal immigrants as victims of a failed immigration system. The fact is these people are here illegally. They have snubbed their noses at our laws. They take advantage of services that were never intended for nor funded for them. They cost legitimate tax payers and health insurance payers billions of dollars more than would otherwise be necessary if the illegal immigants weren’t here. The real victims are the American citizens and legal immigrants forced to foot the bill. The bad guys ARE the illegal immigrants.

12:31 aka Bob Jones, Read a book motherfucker. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Undocumented workers pay millions of dollars into our government’s programs like Social Security that they never are able to access the benefits of. I suggest you educate yourself before writing your comment next time through.

“illegal” immigrants. ‘nuff said. do it the legal way, like the rest of our ancestors did

There is no moral imperative to allow people to come here illegally for their own economic benefit. If you want to help people of other countries improve their lot, there are ways to do that that don’t require breaking US laws. If there is any moral imperative regarding illegal immigration, it is not advantage those who jumped the line over those who followed the rules to come here. How do you explain to someone who waited years to immigrate here legally that we look the other way while millions gain jobs by slipping over the border? That’s the outrage here.

(1) Securing the borders to prevent illegal aliens (and criminals and terrorists) from crossing them; (2) Enforcing immigration laws; (3) Deporting newly-apprehended illegal aliens; (4) Deporting aliens who overstay their visas; (5) Denying “sanctuary cities” (that protect invaders) from receiving federal funds for aiding and abetting lawlessness; (6) Promoting English and assimilation in all U.S. institutions — not bilingualism or “multiculturalism.” (7) Controlling immigration so as to allow for workable assimilation. (8) Denial of most social services to illegal aliens; (9) Repelling Mexico’s interference in U.S. internal affairs; and (10) Elimination of birthright migration and chain migration “which put the alien’s desires before society’s well-being.”

The United States is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico, and American taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico’s citizens. It’s time for Mexico - and its citizens - to stop parasitically feeding off the United States and start taking care of its citizens’ own needs.

A new poll indicates that nearly three-quarters of Americans are not happy with the national state of illegal immigration.

the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey concluded that 73% of American favor a drop in the number of illegal immigrants. Almost a quarter of respondents, 22%, indicated that current levels were acceptable, and 3% favored an increase in illegal immigration.

According to CNN, the 73% result is the highest in the four years the company has been asking this question.

Further, the poll found that 37% of respondents want to see all illegal immigrants deported, and 23% believe that the number of undocumented immigrants should be lowered significantly.

Per CNN, 1,038 adult Americans were polled via telephone from Oct. 16-18. The margin for error is plus or minus 3 percent.

I think that if every Mexican that immigrates here illegally is forced to open a Taco Bell or Qdoba, then I think we’d all be straight. Though I must say, I do prefer Chinese to Mexican food.

Haha I love that the comments section shows peoples’ IP addresses now. e861c66a makes up about half of the comments on this page. Get a life!

Anyone who cares about these poor illegal aliens should concentrate on putting pressure on Mexico to fix itself. We’re tired of taking the rest of the world’s overflow. We’re overpopulated by 50 million now anyway. We’re in a recession, our natural resources are dwindling and pollution is rearing its ugly head again despite our best efforts to control it.

We can’t have it both ways. Impose a ten-year moratorium on immigration now. We can’t grow forever. Pretty soon, WE will have to annex territory from other countries and Canada’s not too happy about that idea for reasons well and obvious.

And I suppose all of you snobby, middle-class-or-better college students want to step in and do all the shit jobs that illegal immigrants do? Yeah, didn’t think so. And don’t give make that garbage argument about unemployment. If all of these poor, forsaken unemployed people would drop a little pride and so some of the work immigrants do, maybe they wouldn’t be sapping tax-payer dollars by living off of unemployment benefits. Oh, but of course, you guys are too privileged to see it that way. Peace.

Has anybody thought deeply about the consequences of another illegal immigrant amnesty? Let’s forget for the moment that suddenly 20 to 30 million people are going to be legalized? That Sanctuary states like California, New Mexico have been financially ridden hard into the ground, because illegal workers and their families are feeding at a gold mine at the taxpayer expense. Let’s not mention that since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill, those made legal, was able to bring into the United States their extended family members. That although they signed an affidavit to support those, many ended up at the taxpayer’s expense. So let’s ignore the expenditures to educate, free health care treatment and all the rest of hidden costs of subsidizing a large portion of the US population. The fact that the businesses that draw them here, from every corner of the world—PAYS NOTHING TOWARDS THEIR UPKEEP. IT’S FREE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR PARIAH BUSINESS, BETTER KNOWN AS CORPORATE WELFARE? Every one of the Democratic leadership have used their influence to weaken E-Verify, county police fed program 287 (g) and ICE raids on businesses.

So president Obama bypasses the masses the hard pressed American, who have entreated him—NO BLANKET AMNESTY! No path to citizenship! So the millions already here get a free ride to your pensions, social security, public option health care welfare. Who in the world is going to pay for all these legalized individual, followed by the onslaught of millions more looking for free health care? NOW HERE COMES THE FIRESTORM! Have we taken leave of our senses, to think for one moment that another amnesty which is in the works? That a single layer fence is going to hold back millions upon millions more people will—COME? This will not be small meandering lines of illegal aliens, crossing the border during the hours of darkness? This is going to be an unimaginably rush at a defenseless 9.000 border patrol agents, that is—Expected?—to hold at bay those who reach our border? Not even the National Guard and regular GI’s could stop the wave upon wave? They will sweep in from El-Salvador, Columbia, Guatemala, Peru, Chile and of course Mexico. They will arrive from Canada, Ireland, Poland and Romania by plane clutching a tourist visa.

Every corner of the world will hear the resounding trumpet call of Osama’s AMNESTY. Chinese immigrants with tourist visas will fly into Mexico City and perhaps terrorists smuggled in by M 13 gang members? Not just the poor, but the sick, mentally handicapped along with criminals, absconding from the arm of the law across this planet. NOW THE MOST URGENT QUESTION IS? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS? We are already swallowing the massive funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. We cannot even find jobs for hapless 15 million American workers, who (if true) are joining day-laborers at Home Depot, Walmart, and Lowe’s parking lots? So who is going to house, feed and pay-out—more strained US taxpayer money? Perhaps we should send families of illegal aliens to squat in Sen. Harry Reid’s gated home in Nevada. Send another crowd to live in House Speakers Nancy Pelosi’s grape plantations in Central California. How about Chuck Schumer, HS Chief Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Gil Cedillo leaving their house key under the mat, for some large family from Indonesia, India to find?

Let’s give them free bus fare to each and every politician with a lousy immigration grading, such as Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) or the whole Sacramento Liberal Marxist assembly, who have sold bona-fide legal Angelino’s into state insolvency? Why not have them live-in at every ACLU office and their communist lawyers so they could feed them. Every pro-illegal immigrant Chamber of Commerce member could open a spare room and settle some family members, until more brothers and sisters could be sponsored and join them. The Catholic Church and other religious groups could welcome them at the church doors and distribute money from the plate? The minority of Evangelicals churches could open up the rectory, accommodating hundreds of cots from the tired and poverty stricken. All the anti-sovereignty lawmakers should have plenty of room in their Virginia mansions, their custom ranches for large numbers of impoverished families. Even the President has that large White structure—could exhibit some kindness to homeless families and FEMA could establish a tent city in the grounds? Any of the House and Senate who compromised illegal immigration enforcement, should announce their address for resettlement of people who just run the gauntlet at the under funded border fence.

Let’s face it these people who call us names such as xenophobes bigots and worse, adding ugly cuss words to their vocabulary should also open their doors to anybody who enters America illegally. Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates and the thousands of businesses that don’t incur a darn cent should bring these family members together in their giant homes. Corporate owners who have colluded with State governors, Mayors, Judges and other lower echelon officials, should participate with a welcome mat. Perhaps American workers should obtain a hard copy list of every unpatriotic American and give illegal matriarch a page of addresses for their extended illegal families? We have San Francisco’s mayor Galvin Newsom and Los Angeles Antonio R.Villaraigosa and all the other—SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES who have completely ignore federal laws, can also give refuge in their abodes to incorrigible gang members who have killed without conscience, illiterate drunk laborers who have slaughtered families on our streets, because they could comprehend English warning signs.

Then just picture the traffic chaos in every corner of America, unless you live in an isolated ranch in the Mohave Desert, in California. We think we have road rage now, but give it a few weeks after unfettered AMNESTY. I even have a better idea. Open America’s doors completely? No Ellis Island, Galveston Island. No documents, no inspections. NO NOTHING. Give everybody a bus ticket of their choosing, to where they wish to go? See how long the open border zealots put up with that progressive rush to overpopulation. IF you have changes of heart give a tongue-lashing to your legislators at 202-224-3121 in Washington. Learn the financial services in billions of dollars to foreign nationals at NUMBERSUSA,. Hidden corruption that has finally been uncovered, at JUDICIAL WATCH? What the US Census has to say about the POPULATION GROWTH in the future of our children at CAPSWEB? Our population will escalate from 255 million to 383 million by the year to 2050? The next 100 million will suffocate our ability to maintain water, energy, food, communication, infrastructure and a balanced environment.

I’m amazed at the ignorance of political and economic relations between the United States and other nations that most commentators on the BH have. Are you all even aware that American corporations and the NAFTA are major contributing factors to “illegal immigration”? Why don’t you all think about things in a broader context? Yes, technically Mexico is a sovereign nation. However, the Mexican economy and politics is directly connected to the United States. It’s not a exclusively a Mexican problem, it’s an issue of economic oppression that does not allow millions of people to live a decent quality of life, and the US does play and has played a major role in keeping things that way. It’s easy to think about what affects us, but to truly understand things we need to understand how we affect others.

Supporting the enforcement of our immigration laws = advocating for better lives of immigrants who come here legally. Think about it - its the illegal immigrants who are taken advantage of by employers who KNOW that they are illegal. If you really cared about them, you would want to build the biggest fence possible, that way - theoretically - all who come here will do so legally, and not be able to be taken advantage of making $1 an hour.