"my comments about our country doing better in the legal sense when it comes to immigrants I have to disagree with Ron."

Tell that to the immigrants from South America who gather together each morning in towns across the region looking for an honest days work. Tell that to all those who try to cross our borders. Tell that from everyone who has suffered because of Homeland Security and the Border Security Enforcement Bill. Tell that to all the immigrants who supply the marjority of the labor in the meat packing industry. Tell that to the immigrant farm workers. Do a search on human rights abuse in this country. If anything, we have added new laws to make immigration more difficult and deposing easier.

In 2005 we can look back at the St. Louis incident and easily say that the U.S., Canada and other countries were wrong in making these people suffer. Yet in 2005 we turn a blind eye at the other abuses in our own country, often because of religious or simply the color of a persons skin.    In New Jersey there is the previously mentioned outcry about "immigrant" day laborers, who happen to be from South America. Yet you rarely hear anyone mention the thousands of illegal Irish and Polish immigrants who live in the same area.

The arguements that were heard at the time of the St.Louis incident were that immigrants would be taking jobs, straining resources and costing the goverment.   These are the same arguements we hear today.