OK, I'll bite... and I'm sure many flames are to come my way for this. I've read plenty of indian/mexican hate here to know I stand in the minority.

If immigration were illegal, none of you would be here today. It's pretty simple really, and I know most of you are smart enough to realize that somewhere along the way in your ancestry, an immigrant entered the United States and called it home. Go ahead and use the born in the country makes you native, when the truth is that you are still the decendents of immigrants, unless you are either native american or indeginous to either the north or south american continents. So, in summary, it just seems awfully hypocritical to say that immigration should be illegal, or even more so, that a mexican who wants to cross a settlers drawn boundary into what very well may have been their ancestral homeland is an illegal immigrant. Mexicans were on this continent for thousands of years before any western european migrant.
Through the last few centuries of modern america, immigrants have been the people that have left their homeland because of poverty, oppression, political asylum and even criminals hiding from whatever charges they faced elsewhere (not including slaves, of course). The Puritans, the Irish, the Chinese, the Mexicans the list goes on. What gives anyone else the right to say "I've got mine, through the very same process that you are trying, now you can't have yours"?

It kind of reminds me of these neighbors that I have who "migrated" from California a couple of years ago. They bought some property, put up a house, planted their grass and flowers and Japenese maples and a couple rhodies. Another Californian does the same thing in the lot right behind me. I catch Fornian #1 in my back yard one morning yelling at Fornian #2 (she had the balls to walk into my yard to start her fight with my other neighbor). I ask her "what the F***" and she proceeds to tell me how she is going to turn them in to the county, she is sure they don't have the proper permits for dropping the trees and building the garage, and she's sick of all the construction noise and not only that, she can't believe someone would move into her neighborhood and just start tearing down trees and building a house out here in the country, just so they could get away from California and maybe someday turn a profit.

Just seemed a little audacious.

Now I recognize that there are many open minded people on this board that I agree with about 98.5% of the time. But really, what's the argument for keeping out a Mexican, trying to provide a better life for his family. I can understand kicking out any Arab national. Call it racial profiling, but the last time I checked the Arabs (Osama and his cohorts) have tried twice to take down the trade towers and succeeded once. The mexicans have never tried to blow up any national monuments that I am aware of.

Secure the borders, the ports of entry, I mean really, that should be priority number uno. But to single out the Mexicans for this whole immigration reform, spawned by the need for Homeland Security seems kind of like using a garden hose to put out a forest fire.

So, I'm sorry for this post, really, I truly apologize. I guess that I'm just sort of confused by how america ended it's greatest era of "give me your tired, your poor" and instead entered into the world of Pat Buchanan isolationism.

Let the flames begin.