"Montblack" wrote in message
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The misunderstanding is on your part. The influx of "ILLEGALS" has been
massive, and rapid.

Andrew never said it wasn't. All he said (implied, actually) was that most
Hispanic airport workers are legal. Given the background checks they
presumably go through, I'd say that's a pretty safe assumption, regardless
of what one might think about the prevelance of illegals in other jobs.

The INS, on their best day (so to speak), couldn't process a tiny fraction
of the people who have invaded our country over the last 10 years. The INS
is clogged and broken down - we know, we've had a number of friends
needing
to deal with the INS, becoming citizens.

INS is screwed up, as is much of our government. No doubt about that. I
have plenty of personal experience with the INS to confirm your assertion.
I'm not clear on how that is relevant to the question of who should be
permitted to immigrate to the US, or what to do with those who decide to do
so illegally.

And BTW, aggravate WHAT situation? Oh, I know! The situation of 10's of
millions of ILLEGALS flooding our shores.

I love it when people use vague terms like "flooding". A word like that, in
this context, has no use but to evoke an emotional response in an attempt to
bypass rational analysis of the issue. Especially when you use made-up
numbers like "10's of millions". As of 2003, the *TOTAL* estimated number
of illegal immigrants living in the US was fewer than 10 million (7 million,
to be exact). It's not even ONE ten million, never mind "10's of millions".

Compare that to the US birth rate (4 million annually), and the *legal*
immigration rate (about 1 million annually).

In other words, every 18 months the United States adds the same number of
legal residents as the TOTAL number of illegal residents. With an estimated
annual increase of illegal residents of only 350,000, illegal residents
account for less than 7% of the population growth in the US. A significant
number, to be sure, but hardly "flooding" IMHO.

When I see a Mexican on the streets of Minnesota, my assumption is
"Illegal". I bet I'm right over 75% of the time.

It seems to me that that has more to do with the relative proportion of
legal and illegal Mexicans within the US than it does with the total number
of illegal immigrants (even assuming you're right as often as you think).

Pete