This clearly must be a touchy subject, as no one is discussing it.Let me clarify first and foremost, this is not about racism or anything related! I would simply like to know from anyone here, or moreover our elected officials. What country or economy can you plug several millions( if not tens of)into its healthcare, its school systems and not break the bank?

I don't understand the rolling out of the red carpet here! Rather than insisting they learn english, we should put up signage in spanish, pay for translators and it goes on and on. Why is noone talking about this.

Is it pol. incorrect? Come on folks I've never seen a time in history where a population was ready to just hand over their country and all of its history, in the name of political correctness!! It saddens me deeply 😞

Does anyone here for a moment think that there's another Gov. that would allow the non-hostile takeover of its country and sit idly by and watch it unfold?

Thats what were doing!

Divide and conquer.

Stay right where you are and the gov. will send a couple guys over to explain it to you.

They will get amnesty, citizenship and the right to vote by the next election (2012), so the Democrat Party can stay in power....because every red blooded American is going to vote their sorry butts out.

Never has their been such an example of the arrogant intellectual "we know better than you" attitude than was shown in the vote on Sunday.

There won't be any elections in 2012.

why can't we just give Mexico national healthcare like we did the Arabs..?? that would stop them from trying to get in wouldn't it..??

We need the Mexicans to pick lettuce. All the unemployed with free healthcare don't want those jobs.

They do the work that Americans will not do!

Hmmm.... what if grow our lettuce in Mexico..?? or everyone just grow enough for personal consuption..?

I'd like to see how they're going to collect the fine for those who don't have health insurance in this country from people who are undocumented, get paid under-the-table, and generally don't pay for health care as is.

Most varieties of lettuce are cold weather plants, not suitable for growing in regions like Mexico.

Amnesty. Problem solved.

JPotts, you always overcomplicate everything.

It's a curse.

how do Mexicans make tacos with no lettuce..??

Cabbage. Fish tacos rule!

true... true...

mexicans don't eat taco's with lettuce.

they prolly can't find anyone to pick it down there in Mexico...

This topic has been debated over and over and over.

The only way to get the flow of illegals to stop is to reduce the demand for their labor. The only way to do that is to enforce the existing laws and establish draconian penalties for business owners employing illegal workers, making employing illegals a risk not worth taking. When the demand for their services dries up, they will have no reason to come here illegally.

This will never happen, for a number of reasons. The Republicans use the issue to pander to borderline racists/xenophobes and would not want to upset the very business owners that profit handsomely from staffing their enterprises with illegal labor and pass on those profits in contributions. Democrats use the issue to pander to liberals and "human rights" types and to attempt to monopolize the Hispanic vote and are similarly reluctant to enact legislation that will hit the pocketbooks of their owners (sorry, "contributors").

There is only one way to fix it and neither "side" has any intention of doing so.

Amnesty makes the problem go away.