Exactly.
What a disgrace.

Its been my experience that, without exception, everyone I've spoken with (by this time several hundreds of people) is opposed to any form of amnesty or guest worker policy. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of America's citizens (regardless of what skewed polling you choose to refute the fact) are against any increases in overall immigration numbers. Rather than try to support your untenable position by attributing it to "Democrats" letting the Republicans do their "dirty work", why not accept that this might actually be the result of our "democracy" working the way its supposed to? Maybe its simply a reflection or the "true" will of America's citizens? Perhaps its only that politicians are now actually getting enough "flack" from their constituents, that they may "fear" that passing this Administrations egregiously misguided comprehensive reforms, will result with voters putting these morons back on the street come 2008?

The fact that I haven't found anyone who supports amnesty or guest worker policies may be a reflection of the fact that I live in a border state, but given the diversity and cosmopolitan nature of the local population, I tend to think that this position may be more in keeping with the majority of Citizens than not.

What a disgrace - the real disgrace is the corrupt government of Mexico that encourages its poor to illegally enter our country!! Why don't these illegals revolt against the Mexican billionaires that prefer to stuff their fat faces and don't give a hoot about their poor people? Too bad we don't have an ocean that separates us from that miserable excuse of a country!!
Illegals - go back home and fix the problems of your own country instead of creating problems for legal American citizens. Being able to swim the Rio Grande doesn't give you the right to chisel from hard working American citizens.

So, it seems plausible that the Democrats don't actually care to see a strong immigratation reform pass. Fair point.

The final comment, though, seems a bit off the chart. True, Mexico, like the U.S., is characterized by extreme economic inequality. Like here, it is disgusting, and many millions of people suffer the consequences. Our own government, and NAFTA, indubitable share culpability with the upper class in Mexico.

Mexico, though, is hardly a "miserable excuse of a country." Seeking opportunity by migrating to the United States seems to me a sensible decision.

The Mexican people, though, are moving left.

This is a mother's letter to her son after being stripped apart to from his family for a foolish mistake he committed 10 years ago. All I want now that I have my own family and company www.essentialenglish.at here in Wien Austria is to one day seeing my family again at home in my country. Instead of them visiting me every second year.

Before my mothers letter last thanksgiving to me I leave you with some of my thoughts

We came to America not as wet-backs through a tunnel, we flew as legal immigrants and received our residency and after our citizenship. In fact I promote the American way to this day and its language which is my native tongue. The judicial system on deportation in American needs reform. How can I have been place in the country I was born ("Colombia") where I have no family and hardly spoke Spanish to develop. Once considered a criminal in NYC court I today am a proud owner of an English training company that works with American companies over here in Austria providing them with English lessons, management couching and personal development courses in English. I am a caring, dedicated husband and soon to be grateful father. Deportation has to be taken on individual bases and seriouly. An 18 year old who grew up in NYC Queens since the age of 3 convicted on a drug charge and served out his sentence at Rikers Island and then at Shock Incarceration Facility in Brocton New York and graduated from this program with outstanding evaluations should have been able to stay at home close to those who love him most.

Why destroy family bonds for immigrants like my family who are American citizens since the 1990's and built America while American born citizens run and ruin our cities with corruption, drugs, weapons, extortion, at all levels. Our president lies about the cause of going to war tarnishing a black man's respected name by giving him or allowing the CIA's director at the time give him misleading and false information to present at the UN, our vice president shoots a judge in the face, our attorney general fires all those who oppose policy, where the VP secretary of state is convicted 20 years to jail for blowing the whistle on a comrades identity because her husband opposed policy, where a government lets thousands die in hurricane with enormous resources and thousand more killed while our chief in commander read a fable to kids, where the appointed head of the World Bank hires his girlfriend and gives her a nice promotion, and where our Hawk or WASP officials in government believe that every generation should go to war and that "blue blood" has the right to lead and govern all the world, this is messed up not my drug sale that I was persuaded into doing by an FBI agent that I though was my friend at the time because he broke the law every step of the why with me and still to this day runs loss breaking laws and entrapping younger men then him for his personal wealth and fame in NYC. I do promote our country as a world leader in everything due to our aggressive and competitive behavior, top innovator around the world, strongest and fairest not its inequality in social classes, racism at INS, corruption in jails and its dirty police and FBI that run the streets. Liberty and justice for all stopped around the same time we stopped pledging the legions of America at school. Perhaps way before that, perhaps sine the creation of Skulls and Bones man at Yale, Harvard and other rich private schools...

Feel my pain and watch my success. I love my country ("America") and its multi cultured people.

Nick

Queridos hijos:

espero que cuando lean estas lineas se encuentren bien. Ya se un poco apretados pero con salud y amor todo se puede superar, se papi que me llamaste antes de que leyera tu mensaje, pero es que a veces entre semana no leo mis mensajes porque la computadora esta ene el cuarto de Dany y el se acuesta temprano y no me gusta molestarlo, por eso quiero que mas adelante pongamos la computadora afuera para yo poder hacer algo mas pues yo no puedo dormir temprano, Estamos tratando de buscar un apartamento mas cerca de mi trabajo para asi no depender tanto de Dany o de su papa, quiero ser mas independiente como siempre y no molestar a nadie y tu sabes que por no manejar tengo ese inconveniente aca, esa es mi resolucion para el ano que viene, sacar mi licencia y aunque sea por las calles manejar. Dr Jhaveri me ha pedido que me devuelva a N. Y. y a veces lo quisiera hacer, pero me da pesar con Dany dejarlo solo aunque ya se que el ya es una persona independiente y responsable de sus cosas pero siento que aun la presencia de el uno con el otro es compania para ambos por lo menos por ahora. Te estoy escribiendo esto hoy Jueves 23 de Noviembre es dia de Thanksgiving, Dany esta en N.Y. todo el mundo te ha mandado saludes hoy y estar aqui sin ninguno de Uds me ha puesto un poquito nostalgica ( triste) pero estoy bien y le doy gracias a Dios por todo lo que me da cada dia y todo lo que Uds. tambien reciben por eso te digo y quizas soy cansona al repetirte esto que pase lo que pase en la vida no hay nada tan importante y bello que mantener nuestra cabeza en alto y sentirnos orgullosos de tener una vida sana sin remordimientos y con todo el amor para uno mismo y para todos los que nos rodean eso es lo unico que nos va a llenar siempre el alma. El otro dia que estaba tambien meditando y pensando en mi vida y en todos uds. llego a mi una gran verdad y me senti feliz y al mismo tiempo con un poco de sosobra, mas tarde te lo explicare en la carta que te he ido escribiendo poco a poco cada vez que tengo un poco de tiempo y quiero hablar contigo de esta manera y no con palabras, tal vez en ella tengas y entiendas un poco mi espiritu y cuando ya no este con uds, siempre pienses que con este simple papel quiero transmitirte todo mi amor y aliento o tambien como tu lo quieras tomar ahora, tal vez te parezca un poco ridiculo pero yo se que al pasar el tiempo y cuando la leas una y otra vez me entenderas mas si es que la quisieras guardar, pero bueno papi ya creo que te canse lo suficiente por hoy verdad? que mama tan cansona tienes. Damele un abrazo muy grande a Patty con un beso dile que la quiero mucho y la extrano, cuidamela mucho, se paciente y muy amoroso con ella, los amo mucho y los extrano cantidades, muchos saludos a todos y este fin de semana los llamo, besitos y abrazos.

Mami

Immigration reform bills fail, amnesty is given over and over again, we fund the new citizens, we fund the new immigrants, we never fund the border patrol part the way we need to. The bills are written by special interest groups which do not really have the interests of the citizens in mind. Our congress passes them and our president because we are not important to them, a flow of cheap labor is. In the end we will be part of the cheap labor, moving in the circular migration pattern they talk of in the bill, to meet their needs and for our survival, as those from Mexico are now.

The fear of main stream America, both Republican and Democrats, rather then the right or the left ( who both are very pro immigration reform) and of even hispanic/latino citizens is not those of another race, ethnic, or cultural identity, it is a fear of our own government, a fear of their greed, and their willingness to sell us out to achieve their utopia at our expense.

S. 1348 The comprehensive immigration reform bill is informative on where the leading Democrats and Republicans want to take us. Especially meaningful is the large section devoted to improving the reports of exchange of information on North American Security.

Some nice snippets:

(C) in exploring methods for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to waive visa requirements for nationals and citizens of the same foreign countries;

(7) LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION- The progress made in enhancing law enforcement cooperation among Canada, Mexico, and the United States through enhanced technical assistance for the development and maintenance of a national database built upon identified best practices for biometrics associated with known and suspected criminals or terrorists, including exploring the formation of law enforcement teams that include personnel from the United States and Mexico, and appropriate procedures for such teams.

There is alot more there, its all covered in nice words, but it's not a law written for the benefit of U.S. citizens or even the benefit of Mexican citizens.