At the first hint of a stalemate in the Senate and the House, Congress may try to pass the elections first and delay this to 2007. |
I think cumulatively they (the rallies) have done more harm than good for the advocates and the organizers. |
It is understandable that someone with longstanding concerns about immigration such as Feinstein would react to the shocking news about tunnels on the US border. |
It's almost a policy of apartheid, in a sense, informal apartheid. |
Public opinion appears to have galvanized and steeled overwhelmingly in support of enforcement of immigration laws and not for benefits for illegal aliens. |
That way, they still get the taxes. |
The message that would send is tantamount to a clarion call to this dangerous migration. The good men and women of the Coast Guard have enough on their plate. |
The vast majority of Americans pay their taxes even though a small, tiny fraction of them will ever get audited. That's because the punishment for not paying your taxes is jail. |
There has been a glaring lack of entry and exit protocols both before and after 9/11. It's hard for me to imagine other industrialized nations operating any differently. |
We all have sympathy on the individual level, but we have a remarkably broken system. This highlights the fact that people are exploiting the system. We have someone here who pledged to return home and then ignored U.S. immigration law. |
We can take what is a crisis now and make it a manageable nuisance. |