Reply #115: Exactly!

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They would come in a legal and orderly manner if they could. We just make it impossible.

And using the DL to try to enforce these laws by attrition is even more unrealistic.

I don't get the big deal people have with it anyway. If someone knows how to drive, I don't care if they are on the road whether they are undocumented or not. I'd be a lot more worried about drunken drivers and negligent drivers. Lou Dobbs and his ilk are so obsessed they fail to see that the issue is relatively unimportant. We just need better laws.

I was recently in Britain and that country has a lot of immigrants, too. They have much better control of their borders I would think, since they are relatively small and an island to boot. So immigrants must be necessary to Western economies, where the birthrate is down. Yet the British don't seem to articulate a "crisis." They must have it under reasonable control by having reasonable laws that don't have to be enforced so often that a huge pool of people illegally there develops. This country just lets Lou Dobbs pull their chains, and Lou Dobbs has some sort of psychological or emotional problem that requires that the undocumented immigrants take the blame for every ill society has ever had.