Reply #199: I am sensitive...

[dryan]

to the problems in Latin America that force these poor people to come to the United States but I also think that this is one of the reasons that the governments of those same countries don't try to improve their economies in order to make life better for their citizens. That said, the illegal problem has become a national problem for us! The hospitals in the southwest are at the breaking point because of caring for illegals (didn't anyone read the article in Time magazine about a year ago--it was a real eye opener). And by the way, people that want to enter illegally from places that are on the State Department's terror list, fly to Mexico and come into the USA that way. Also, many illegals are under the impression that once they have gotten into the USA and traveled more than 20 miles, the INS will stop looking for them. Why doesn't Bush ask his 'close friend' Fox to help with this?