>>"Compete for my job"? Are you really afraid that poor uneducated people who barely speak English can displace you? I'm not afraid. Nobody expects you to work for $9 /hr--you're a skilled citizen and a smart guy.<<

I'm a guy who could lose his job just like that. And so are you. Amd there may nothing open to me but to try to land two or even three $9/hr jobs to survive and that's going to be hard to do when millions of illegal immigrants with guest worker status have taken most of them.

>>It's to the advantage of all Americans that everybody be educated--<<

It's no adavantage at all if the people getting the education aren't citizens. Mexico has a school system when last I checked. And a preety good one from what I hear. If these people coming here are uneducated then they are Mexico's hillbilllies and they don't even want them, why should we?

>>If you think illegals' just being made legal will push up wages so high that inflation will skyrocket, I think you're being unduly alarmed.<<

Tell that to those who said the same thing about unions.

>>It will still be a question of supply and demand--and the supply will still be coming, especially from Mexico--but also elsewhere. Some of the ski resort workers, you can be sure, are legal--but they still only make $9/ hr---to start. Why shouldn't that rise over time?<<

If they're here legally, they still have restrictions because they aren't citizens. And I favor that. That is as it should be. As citizens, they have all the same rights I do and I don't begrudge them anything. But clearly this is not the case. As long they are willing to come here and do the jobs most Americans don't want, I don't care. If they can manage a decent wage out of it, good for them. But the rules are the rules. They get caught, they get deported. End of story.