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What a crock! Mr. Crocker smears Rep. Tancredo because he wants existing law enforced and the border secured -- what an extreme idea. There is no room for compromise with the abomination that the senate passed. Kill it, behead it and burn it.

p>All we need to know about the "comprehensive solution" is that Ted Kennedy. Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid love it. Case closed. br> -- Robert Gallagher br> Cookeville, Tennessee /p> p> I for one hope we follow Tom Tancredo's plan. We all know that for years our government hasn't been serious about enforcement of our immigration law. Why should we accept the promise of future enforcement? We need to focus on an enforcement only bill. After that, if we need more immigrants, we should increase the numbers of legal immigrants allowed. Let's bring in highly skilled and educated immigrants into our country. Why should we have low skilled guest workers that eat up more in social services than they contribute to the economy? Many of these low skilled jobs would be done by Americans if the wages for them weren't decreased so much from the surplus of illegal immigrants. Need your bathroom cleaned, your lawn cut, your lettuce picked, and you're not willing to do it yourself? Well pay up, buddy. It just doesn't make sense that we will bring in a family to work for $6 an hour and then pay $8,000 a year in education per child not to mention the other costs of social services in this country. All we are doing is transferring the cost of low skilled employment from the employer to the taxpayer. br> -- Sean Conness br> The Colony, Texas /p>

Nice article. The rub, in this debate over quest worker status and so called "earned" citizenship, is lack of respect for the Rule of Law. It leaves a very bad taste in my mouth to reward people who have deliberately and willfully broken our laws either to enter our country without visas or to stay here on expired visas.

A comprehensive solution cannot truly be comprehensive unless it includes prosecution with severe fines and/or jail time for all employers who hire illegal immigrants and deportation of any immigrants with fraudulent ids and paper work. No, I am not advocating actively pursuing all 11 million suspected illegal immigrants. I am advocating actively pursuing all employers who hire them. If we do this, the illegal immigrants will deport themselves. With that said, I strongly believe that as circumstance provides, when found, illegal immigrants need to be deported.

p>So if your compromise, is to first and foremost secure the boarders by all reasonable means possible, while actively pursing, prosecuting and giving severe fines and/or jail time to employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, and then as a second step, setup a guest worker program for the millions of law abiding people currently following the process, waiting for the chance to live and work in the good ole' US of A, well I'm all for it, compromise, that is.... br> --

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