Reply #70: Then we should be maintaining a viable guest worker program.

[Mike K]

The reason for Arizona's action is the failure of government to facilitate such a program and thereby eliminate the flow of illegals into and through their state.

So don't try to portray opposition to illegal immigration as being motivated by racism or any other sinister purpose. Your beef is with those politicians who are on the take from major employers of undocumented workers.

And for your information, a significant number of illegals are violent criminals. In fact seventeen percent of the populations of federal prisons consist of illegal aliens -- which does not speak for the individual state prisons.