Strange gathering, with signs which seemed to imply that immigrant communities in America were under attack (as they demand that Congress grant immigrants full rights under the law.) LEGAL" immigrants already have those protections....

Now that the politicians have heard from the illegals parading in our streets, it's time they hear from conservatives on this issue. Don't let Congress act before you've been heard! The Senate is about to take up immigration reform again......

It can't be that we're �a nation of immigrants�. All countries are from Albania to Zimbabwe. Except maybe Tanzania, everybody everywhere is ultimately from somewhere else.

It can't be that the perpetrators just want a better way of life. All criminals do. All humans do. It's not a justification for breaking the law.

It can't be that many of those who enter illegally subsequently live within the law. That's true of other lawbreakers as well. We prosecute them nonetheless. It is sometimes used to mitigate the penalty, though, and I think that might be reasonable in this case, too. The problem here is that many illegal immigrants demonstrate indifference to any other law that gets in their way, too, e.g. drivers licenses and mandatory insurance.

It can't be that there are so many of them. Otherwise we wouldn't prosecute traffic violations. And the �how do we deport 12 million� argument? Puh-leeze. Does anyone propose that we give a pass to other lawbreakers because we can't resolve all the other unsolved crimes at once?

Guilt by association, it's even less than so yesterday...

El Presidente Jorge Walker Boosh: Okay, folks, let's try this in (heh-heh) English. Look, I know what you're feeling. You feel the good old USA is being invaded and occupied by a country with a government so rotten, so...

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Thousands of illegal immigrants and their allies across the country plan a show of force Monday to i...

The vast majority of people opposed to illegal immigration have no problem whatsoever with legal immigration.

By making it appear that they're protesting for immigrants in general when it is clear that the issues they address like low pay, unfair conditions etc. only apply to illegal immigrants, they are recasting this as an ethnic, a nationalistic, a racial issue.

If legal immigrants are being subjected to discrimination and having their rights violated, hell, I'll march with them. But as long as their position is "criminals should be treated like law-abiding citizens" they'll get nothing but incredulity from me and millions of other Americans.