Ebbie, I have nothing against a man or woman wanting to better his or her condition in life. But there are rules that must be followed by everyone, not just by some.
Kevin was sounding the old "they were here first" line to which I reply, "so what?" We are running things now so "they" can jolly well do it our way. In the final analysis everyones ancestors were immigrants if you go back far enough. His argument (if argument it was) is a red herring.
And as for not paying taxes- I know several people who first came in illegally and now are citizens and who are definitely paying taxes.
The operant word is "citizen". The illegals DON'T pay taxes.
As for the fact that the illegals do the nasty jobs for low wages, maybe if we stopped the flow of illegal workers, the wages would rise for those jobs until some of our chronically unemployed would be willing to do them.
In my opinion, the only thing we owe illegal aliens is a courteous ride back to the border. As long as we have unemployed citizens, Mexico and the rest can keep their border jumpers home.

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