Why not allow more immigrants in ?

[MorganGrayson]

All of the illegals I've ever met work like dogs. My husband used to be a restaurant manager for Holiday Inn and his Spanish is pretty much limited to anything that's said in a kitchen. He always had the highest respect for his kitchen staff.

In a way, that's part of the problem. The influx of illegals is causing hospitals to go broke and close in droves. It's causing more problems than you can possibly count, and the Border Patrol - despite having very snazzy uniforms - has no real power to do anything. (You can walk up to a Border Patrol agent in downtown San Diego and say "Hi, I'm an illegal" and all he can say is "excuse me, but we call you 'undocumented immigrants' now" because he has no arrest powers away from the border.) It's made a mess of California. But then...how do you not have respect for a guy who'll strap himself to a car engine just so he can work a minimum wage job, live in a hovel and send the money back to his family?

To say the problem is complex doesn't begin to cover it. I don't have any faith in the people who are supposed to be coming up with some kind of solution, either.