When this whole mess began to take the public interest last summer, I began to doubt my own 50- year loyalty to the Democratic Party. (and my father before me was a Roosevelt Democrat and his father before him was a part of America's struggling worker class and a socialist Democrat).

My first job out of high school was working on a track gang in a steel mill. I belonged to both the steel workers union and later the Teamsters. Labor, labor, labor -- that was the unmovable plank of the Democratic Party.

Worker's rights. American Workers Rights.

So when the illegal alien controversy reared up in full last year, my first reaction was, the Republicans are just doing what they always do: trying to break the back of the American working class by using the scabs from foreign countries who manage to sneek in here.

I went to the library and studied the situation over many weeks to learn as much as possible. I formed my opinion that we workers in America, legal citizens, had to stop the goddamned Republicans from diluting our power even more by using cheap scabs.

Then Bush said that Homeland Security was the main issue. His asshole toad of an attorney general used security as the reason to take away more of our civil rights. All the more reason why I came to the conclusion that if he is serious, we need to get control of the southwestern border.

But oh no! I found out pretty quick that my life-long commitment to the Democratic Party doesn't mean a damn thing when it comes to the extremist squishy bleeding heart of the far far far left wing of the Democrats.

"World without borders" and all that other idiotic crap was overwhelming the dialog.

On Media Matters forum last year I raised the hackles of some Atzlan Separatist by stating the fact that even Cesar Chavez was against the "Mojados" coming into the California fields to break the strikes of the American Farm Workers. Boy! You'd think I shit in the punch bowl at an "adopt an illegal" rally. I was called a liar. Chavez never said that, they told me. But I knew he did because I took the time to go back and study "La Huelga."

So as the headline of this article suggests, YES illegals hurt the American workers.

I am vindicated. I was right, and if you are a squishy, you were wrong. It's time for real Democrats to go to their traditional base: The American worker. Stop all this bleeding heart crap and stop letting the Republicans define this illegal alien issue. We're going to need the swing votes in November.

Hi, I'm Vincente Fox,

I've got a huge problem here in Mexico. It's started a long, long time ago when Mexico gained its independence. For political purposes, our forefathers proclaimed a democratic republic. But that was just window dressing. We were and actually still are, an oligarchy. In Mexico, we have a group of "old money" families who are obscenely rich and getting richer, and we have a whole hell of a lot of people who are dirt poor peasants and there are more of them all the time too.

So the dilemma I face is that my family and all of our rich friends don't really like the drag on our economy brought on by having to provide at least some bare minimal social services to these growing hoards of poor people. We'd rather invest that money in the oil fields of Veracruz, or in multi-national schemes like buying up lots of stock in companies doing business in China for instance. Poor people are not only a drag on our economy and our ruling family's wealth, but they are muy peligroso, my friends.

History shows us that when the peasant's belly is empty, he gets angry. A hungry man is an angry man.

Here in Mexico City, we don't need a bunch of peasants coming to town and overthrowing our government. We've got it good here.

So I am so very thankful to my North American brother, George W. Bush and all of his rich friends, who are helping us solve our little problem down here in Mexico.

Thank you, George! You leave your back door open and millions of my unhappy, discontented poor people will stream into the United States and we both PROFIT from it.

Our oligarchy in Mexico remains secure and we don't have to provide services for our poor, and you American Corporatists can use our poor people to break the backs of the American labor activists and unions.

Frankly, I can't see a down-side to this arrangement.

Muchas Gracias, Amigos