Personnally, I don’t care how much it costs to get here. That is up to the Government Offices to decide. I wish you well in your lengthy indevor to try to save the illegal alien’s but as for this conversation, I rest my case and will stand strong in saying that if they are illegal, they should be sent home. If they are not, great I wish them the best. Thanks for your input anyway. LSU Football is starting soon and I truly care about this as it is real also. Good day to you.

To randyp: I respect the soundness of your point and the polite tone of your entry.  Your opinion/point seems informed and based on more than hate. I wish you well in your employment situation. 

P.S. If they illegals were made legal, would they demand more money then?  If so, how would the job market handle this?

I respectfully suggest that you misread my question. It was regarding LEGAL immigrants. There is a reason they’re legal, and it’s far more complicated than just, “yeah, they followed the rules.” Further, I have been told that I would argue with a brick wall, but I am not arguing for the sake of arguing. I am passionate about helping people.  I object to a hypocritical system that allows people who can pay and afford the long wait into the country, but not poor people.  A lot of illegals have zero access to the kinds of dollars it takes to be “legal” and they have not the luxury of months and months of waiting. Families’ well beings are at stake.  I guess I wonder if it is really the legal thing or the color of their skin and their perceived lower class.  Can you understand where I am coming from? When I asked you to think about the LEGAL immigrants, I was hoping you’d see that they were distinctly not Mexican.  If we only care about their being illegal, why not make it more easily attainable for them to come here legally?

It appears that you are just arguing to be arguing. I voiced my opinion and as far as your questions to me, I am not obligated to answer to you. I gave my personal opinion and I will stand with my opinion. I totally agree with Randy. Why should we have to drive further or accept lesser when it is our Country from the get-go? If they (illegal aliens) can not enter our Nation correctly and honestly, then they should stay out. Regardless of their Nationalilty. I work very hard to have the things that I have and will not be forced out of anything because of the illegal immagrants!

OK. I get it. You object to the illegality of their being here. So, my question to you is this: Where are most of our legal immigrants from? What color is their skin?  What kinds of lives did they leave behind to immigrate here? Then look up “The New Collosus,” the poem inscribe on the Statue of Liberty. It doesn’t say, “Give me your citizens who are educated and can afford the $8,000 immigration costs.” This land, the one that my son fights for as a military person, is a country made by the dejected, poor, starving immigrants who settled it.  We are all immigrants somewhere down the genetic line.  This, to me, is like a family of rich brats fighting over who’s getting the biggest piece of the trust fund, when they’re not even the ones who worked to create and preserve it in the first place.
And yes, this is a debate about jobs, etc. That is the very premise of most objections posted here.  “They’re taking our jobs, making us stand in long lines at Wal-Mart, sending their money back to Mexico” You yourself even brought it up in one of your blogs.