Aren't you glad...
 

you're not Haitian, or Dominican? I understand they play the race thang down in Miami.

I also heard that those dudes doing the ethnic control thing paid for the right to shoot those people. It's like a legitimate training for white supremist groups.

My thoughts on illegal immigration--DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO STOP IT.

Immigration is tough, legal or illegal. My friend's dad is an engineer and in the States he is a truck driver. While my mom was on a Fullbright Scholarship at UCLA my dad (a surgeon) had to work as a maitre'd-he tried to be a pizza delivery guy but was told his car was too unreliable lol. (both are back home now, and are not citizens, although I became one in the meantime).

I heard an ironic statement once-"I'd give up that entire Yugoslavia for that 24-hour Walmart"-but of course people back home don't know how tough it is once you actually arrive...

Why the sudden attention?
 

Has anyone else noticed how the "problem" of immigration arises, then falls? Why do you suppose this happens? Has anyone noticed the enormous amount of "american" jobs being uprooted and replanted in places like Afghanistan and India? Do you think the warming of relations between these countries have anything to do with the migration of american jobs? And what about south america, venezuela in particular? What do you think's going to happen now that their president has shown some backbone to president bush? are these events related?

Re: Why the sudden attention?
 

I think the rise and fall of the "immigration issue" (whatever that really means) is whatever is relevant for a "day in politics" for politicians or what is needed for the ratings to increase on the Fox News Channel... Like, let's pick on the folks who have no rights in this country that "mow our lawns" and "clean our houses" and "pick our fruit", today... The fact is, what if these very "immigrants" (legal or illegal) decided to boycott their jobs until they get fair and decent treatment???

I think you are raising another issue of "outsourcing" of American jobs to other countries. That is a whole other issue that has nothing to do with immigration, in my opinion. These folks who get these jobs from corporations that have offices globally hire some of the most college educated folks in these countries to "man telephone lines"... I have no clue as to what to think about that--other than "New World Order"...

As far as Latin American countries go, they have a commodity now that the US needs right now--oil. We are not using their sources for some inane reason but it does sound conspiratory...

Let's just say that there IS a reason why gas prices are increasing at such a rapid rate that may have to do with weaning the American public away from petroleum manuevered cars...

Who knows what that reason could be...