Ebs: "
"Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) may not have been sensitized to the immigration issue, Rig."

    * Born: 29 January 1737
    * Birthplace: Thetford, England
    * Died: 8 June 1809
    * Best Known As: The author of Common Sense

Thomas Paine was one of the great fiery voices of the American Revolution. Paine emigrated from England to Philadelphia in 1774. Two years later he published Common Sense, a popular pamphlet that argued for complete American independence from Britain. Later that year in his pamphlet The American Crisis he penned his famous line, "These are the times that try men's souls." The revolution won, Paine returned to England in 1787, and in 1791 he published The Rights of Man, which opposed the idea of monarchy and defended the French Revolution. To escape being tried for treason, he fled to Paris, where he wrote The Age of Reason. In 1802 he returned to America, only to find himself outcast and poverty-stricken in his final years.

GfS: I bet you he DID understand immigration issues!

Joe Offer: "Yeah, why not come in legally? GfS, do you have any idea how hard it is for a Mexican laborer to come into the U.S. legally?"

GfS: " Why would it seem so incorrect, to think that a government should regulate the amount of immigrants, coming in, when it might impact the country, as to jobs, crime and well-being of its OWN citizens?? Don't you think that a government owes its allegiance, to the citizens of their own country...especially when the government is suppose to be "We the People"?.....What gives a government power or right to rule AGAINST the will of "We the People?"
Something must correct itself, wouldn't you say?? How far are these two entities going to oppose each other, without something 'popping'? Methinks it does not bode well.
What do you think?

Respectfully,
GfS

GfS