>>>As you know we have to do something about getting our minds off of the war in Iraq, and the price of gasoline, along with a long list of other items. Getting people emotional about illegal aliens will solve all of our problems.
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>>>Be sure to give inaccurate data and appeal to the irrational. Throw in a few accurate figures and do not mention that nothing has been done under the present administration to address these issues until now. It was not a problem until now.
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>>Honestly Thomas,
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>>Immigration, both legal and illegal, has been a cause of strife in this country since the 19th century. (probably before but I can't remember off the top of my head before the Irish were considered a problem.
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>I don't think it would be much of an overstatement to say immigration has been the history of our country. Basically all of us came here from somewhere else. My family on both sides has been here for several generations but they sure didn't sail on the Mayflower.
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>What I find truly unfathomable is that some think immigrants have somehow become our weakness rather than our strength. Someday the thought that Hispanic-Americans were once considered a "problem" will be as quaint as the thought that Irish-Americans are a problem. They will assimmilate like all the waves before them.

The difference is that the previous waves of immigrants were coming here legally.