When no one showed up to work on my pool. It's been over 2 months are they still aren't done! I am starting to get pissed. If this is any indication of the work ethic of illegals, then maybe we should re-consider mass deportation. It's starting to get hot! I want to swim!

What people are failing to realize or even talk about is that this is nothing but the explotaiton of cheap labor that is going to break up the middle class. I am for immigration, everyone has a right to a better life, but why not do it legally like so many others have? It seems as if no one wants to take Vicente Fox and his imcompetant government to task. Why isn't Mexico trying to create jobs for their people, instead of seeing them risk life and limb to come over here and get used by employers? And when the employer uses them, then it takes a job away from another legal citizen. Why isn't there a boycott in Mexico? A revolution? Is it because people know that the Mexican government would not stand for it? I do not think that this one day will make any difference in the overall scheme of things. Lets say we do offer a blanket amnesty to everyone in the US. They become citizens and the coporations have to pay them legal wages. Then what will happen is that another wave of immigrants will come over and take their jobs because they would be willing to work for even less money. And then they will be unemployed and be back to were they started. It's a dog-eat-dog situation that will not be fixed by granting amnesty.

What message have we been sending-- and listening to?

Politically active Cuban Americans tip elections in Florida and sometimes the nation. A Cuban coming across in a truck reconfigured into a boat is instantly accepted on our shores, if they make it to shore, or the unsuccessful attempt is repeated on our 24 hour news channels. A Haitan who manages to reach our shores is turned back.

Despite terrorists crossing our borders from Canada September 11, 2001, insufficient force or technology is used to patrol border states North or South. Millions arrive.

Rather than collecting taxes from the wages of illegal immigrantsto replace Social Security funds borrowed to fund other purposes, hosptials close, schools are over stretched.

Now , with the unopposed force of numbers, demands for inclusion are covered by a symptathetic press. The word illegal does not accompany immigrant. Nationals from other countries on non bordering nations abide by America's quota system for entry. Those already here are free to arm themselves.

Jim Morrison said it long ago- "The old get old and the young get stronger, May take a week or it may take longer, they've got the guns, but we've got the numbers....."

Hmmm. Lets see. A new labor movement engages in economic extortion on May Day. I think that Mao had a term for that...

Here in Chicago, the march (police estimated 400,000) is definitely about a new labor movement as much as anything else. SEIU, Teamsters, UNITE Here were all out in force. The speakers (Sen. Obama, Rep. Guitierrez) at the pre-march rally in Union Park spoke on a semi-truck trailer that opened up into a stage, emblazoned with the Teamsters logo.

This was hugely signficant. It was 120 years ago that the labor movement was born in Chicago, when Irish and other immigrants rioted in Haymarket Square demanding a 40 hour work week. Within a few years, the 40 hour work week was the standard, and Unions were rising. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair was another high mark in the Labor Movement. As business leaders feared missing the opening of the event, they caved to labor organizers, and the Unions won one of their first huge victories.

In fact, because of how close the Chicago March was to the Unions, there was not an official boycott here, because it's illegal for Unions to organize such a thing. There was an effective boycott, with many businesses here closing, and when 400,000 people are marching instead of buying, it creates that effect.

Progressive labor leaders in Chicago and elsewhere know that this is the beginning of a rebirth. And any Democrat who has an interest in ever seeing the Party regain control knows that this could ultimately mean a rebirth for the Democrats. It is important for Democrats nation-wide to follow Rep. Guitierrez's lead: "Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote!"

I end up crossing paths with someone who is highly likely to be guilty of the crime. I live in the American Southwest so it's not too hard to do so. And every time I meet someone like that, all I see is a human being who wants a better life for himself and his family. (cue the violins). It's safe to say that if I were Mexican, I would do whatever I could to enter the US, legally first, but if there were no opportunity to do so, I would try to sneak in as well.

Are some illegals criminals? Of course. But we have plenty of home-grown criminals running around as well. Americans seem to have cornered the market in that arena.

There is no doubt in my mind that most employers would rather hire legal American citizens. Do you think they like sending people out who don't speak the language of their customers? But I don't see poor unemployed Americans lining up at landscaping companies or painting companies to get a job. It's more lucrative for them to sit at home and collect food stamps and welfare.

Once again, I live in the Southwest, so no one can accuse me of being isolated from the issue, and I just fail to see why this hurts our country as much as others say.

I'm tired of seeing illegal aliens referred to as "immigrants". It's a intentional confusion of the issues. As always, America welcomes immigrants. Illegal aliens are criminals pure and simple. If INS was doing it's job many would have been arrested at these "protests". I put protest in quotes because I can't see how citizens of another country can demands rights from a government that is not theirs.