[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Sorry, but I think that the phrase, "jobs that Americans won't do", is a complete myth perpetrated by those who use these people to avoid higher payrolls and paying taxes.

There are plenty of uneducated, unskilled Americans with no hope of a future that would do these jobs. There are plenty of young people who have been in trouble with the law that could be placed into programs that would give them a place to stay and a job as opposed to putting them in juvenile centers where they learn more about how to commit crimes. We also have plenty of incarcerated individuals that could be made to be useful members of society while earning themselves some money or paying part of the cost of their incarceration.

We still have an unemployment problem in this country, a crime problem and a huge failure of our educational system. These factors would provide plenty of workers to do menial labor.

Who picked out vegetables before we had this big illegal immigration problem?

As redwitch said, as a society we have sometimes not been very welcome to immigrants. But over time, those that have come here legally have assimilated and are accepted. I don't know that that will ever change.

My wife is an immigrant and a legal permanent resident. It took a lot of work and money to get her here. The process is much too difficult and needs to be fixed. It's easier for some to come here illegally than to come legally.

AS far as compassion goes, I don't find it very compassionate to allow this situation to continue as is. These people flock here illegally and then get used and abused. That needs to stop. We need to seal our borders.

As far as the 11 million that are here, I have no problem with doing something to help them out. But, we need to look at every case individually. Some like to tell stories of kids that were brought here by their parents when they were young and have lived here all their lives. Or of poor people simply looking for a way to survive. It's true that those people exist in the illegal population. Many are people who have over stayed their visa and just need to do a bit of paperwork to get squared.

But there is also a criminal element among the illegals. Drugs dealers and gangsters who need to be dealt with as well. There are many here that want to do us harm and want to use our citizens to further their illegal activities. They need to be imprisoned or deported.

I see no reason why we can't be sealing our borders and dealing with the individual cases at the same time. The influx has to stop.