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Actually, Arizona is leading the way towards the only real solution...making it NOT an immigrant friendly state by penalizing employers of illegals.  They're fleeing Arizona, most (according to some article I read) going back to Mexico.

Gay California would be last to do that, if at all, so NM, AZ, and TX can start being Mexican free...or at least they'll be able to reclaim their Home Depot parking lots back!

mtb0minime wrote:

What will it take for politicians to realize how insecure our border is and do actually do something about illegal immigration?

When an entire state has English as it's secondary language, if they speak it at all, so that all legal documents have to be translated into Spanish?

IRONCHEF wrote:

Actually, Arizona is leading the way towards the only real solution...making it NOT an immigrant friendly state by penalizing employers of illegals.  They're fleeing Arizona, most (according to some article I read) going back to Mexico.

Gay California would be last to do that, if at all, so NM, AZ, and TX can start being Mexican free...or at least they'll be able to reclaim their Home Depot parking lots back!

That's good to hear. Once I graduate from college I was planning on looking for a job in AZ.

Either that or I'll go up north to Montana or maybe even Canada

IRONCHEF wrote:

Actually, Arizona is leading the way towards the only real solution...making it NOT an immigrant friendly state by penalizing employers of illegals.  They're fleeing Arizona, most (according to some article I read) going back to Mexico.

Gay California would be last to do that, if at all, so NM, AZ, and TX can start being Mexican free...or at least they'll be able to reclaim their Home Depot parking lots back!

There is a bill in the California Legislature for this very idea I believe, but I may have read it wrong.  Let me see if I can find something...

Penalize employers of illegals, implement new guidelines and quotas for immigration/naturalization.  With the exception of a good amount of personnel physically guarding the border, I don't see our borders ever being "secure".  But if you take away one key motivation of illegal immigration (the ability to secure work), I think it would drastically lower the amount of illegal immigration.

"Securing" the border and stopping illegal immigration are two separate issues in my opinion, but not mutually exclusive.  The fact that a ridiculously small percentage of transport trucks, trains, and cargo bins are checked before entering the country really lets you know how serious the government is about "securing" the borders.  As soon as the failure to secure borders affects the states themselves, you will see real action.  The federal government seemingly does not care about "securing" our borders.

I wonder if that fence company from California awarded some of the border fence contract ever got around to hiring legal workers?  Gotta love politics.

Last edited by KEN-JENNINGS (2008-03-13 13:06:14)

It will take a disaster before we go into serious action, unfortunately that's usually the story to politics

mtb0minime wrote:

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

as far away from the dirty brown people as you could get

I've got nothing against Mexicans or Latinos/

so whats wrong with securing the northern states in the canadian border?  your OP addressed security as the priority for border enforcement, but you only mentions states in the south west.  You dont realize its a lot easier for terrorists to get through the canadian side than the mexican side.

You can't trust Canadians. They've worked for years to make their accents nearly unnoticeable (except for the occasional "oot and aboot"). They've infiltrated our entertainment industry, filling our heads with their evil propaganda.

Then there's Brian Adams.

They are pure evil.

On a serious note: GS is right about the Canadian border WRT terrorist threat. However, from an economic perspective, we have to do something about the flow of illegals across the southern border, as well.