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I think cumulatively they (the rallies) have done more harm than good for the advocates and the organizers.
We can take what is a crisis now and make it a manageable nuisance.
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.
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.
Public opinion appears to have galvanized and steeled overwhelmingly in support of enforcement of immigration laws and not for benefits for illegal aliens.
It's almost a policy of apartheid, in a sense, informal apartheid.
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.
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.
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.