Reply #9: I question your statement that Kean is doing well

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but agree that Jersey was the most stubborn resister of anti-slavery laws hundreds of years ago, and that they have had a very active KKK movement going on for well over a century. But they are just a little bit smarter than how you characterize them. Suburban sprawl and property taxes are two huge issues in Jersey. They appreciate the good cheap labor that illegal immigrants provide, but don't want to deal with paying for (or believing they are paying for) the social services that are required if you want a cheap labor force that has no recourse to the law or any other type of protection. So, it doesn't surprise me there are still Jerseyans who support slavery/indentured servitude but call it fair distribution of responsibility for taxes that underwrite services.

If Tom Kean Jr. thinks that calling for impractical and expensive solutions to "illegal immigrants" will save Jersey property owners any money or address suburban sprawl, he is truly a moron.

I do agree however, that certain Republicans are grossly disappointed that they will not have punitive Federal laws for unapproved immigration or entry into country passed anytime soon, and that they intend to make it "the" election issue. But immigrants have been pouring into Jersey for hundreds of years. That includes Mexicans and South Americans,etc. These same one issue people overlook that somehow light skinned illegal immigrants like Germans, and Irish and Italian and Polish also continue to pour into Jersey.

Seriously, do they think that trying to remove at least a million people living in the State of New Jersey, some for decades, will work? We can't even get the * administration to clarify, let alone enforce the existing immigration policies. Calling for an end to illegal immigrants may get some people off, but it doesn't solve any problem. And electing a wet earred Senator who has no idea how to negotiate resources for the state would be a huge mistake in many other ways as well.