1. MYTH: This is not amnesty.
2. MYTH: This proposal does not repeat the mistakes of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.
3. MYTH: The government will crack down on the hiring of illegal workers.
4. MYTH: This proposal would not cut in half the amount of fence built by the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
5. MYTH: [...]

If the illegals (Mexicans) are forced out, where will the politicians on Capitol Hill go for lunch?

Source: Yahoo Maps using the Smartview option to pinpoint Mexican restaurants.

Tags: immigration

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Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon on Monday slammed U.S. plans to build more fences on its southern border, saying it would not solve illegal immigration.
You’re right. You, as the incoming President of Mexico, have the power to solve to problem of your citizens fleeing your country.
President Vicente Fox, of Calderon’s conservative National Action Party, has [...]

Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
Raise the New Orleans levees with the soil removed from the moat.
Relocate those damn Florida alligators to the moat.

Tags: alligators, hurricanes, immigration, katrina

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But [...]

two surveys conducted in Mexico asked: “If at this moment you had the means and opportunity to go to live in the USA, would you go?” Almost half - 46 percent - said yes.
When asked if they would be inclined to work and live in the USA “without authorization,” meaning illegally, 21 percent said they [...]