We also need to remember that although the majority of the illegal [insert your own word here] are from Mexico, many are not even from Latin America. That’s part of the problem - we can not identify their country of origin and those people are NOT here to work. The media has conveniently ignored the prayer blankets left by Muslims entering the the country via our south border.

For anyone who believes that the illegals who are working are doing not doing any harm may be correct on a very surface level. But remember this: they are working under the table and not paying taxes or have false identify papers, many of which are stolen from a US citizen ie identify theft. The US federal government is not set up, equipped or willing to deal with this problem. Just talk to the woman in Texas who had multiple people in different states using her Social security number for their own. She only noticed this when she thought she was getting a tax refund but got a notice that she owned a lot of money! Common sense tells us that this should have been a red flag at the IRS but NOTHING was done.

As a US citizen I am concerned about my government’s lack of concern regarding who or what is gaining entry into this country; from the illegal him/herself to drugs to human slave traffickers I am also concerned about what those people go through to get here:
a: June 7 CNN.com 15 Chinese were found in an SUV in a Texas border town. They each paid $55,000 to get here.
b: May 25 NBC17.com Illegal driver of a van - driving on the wrong side of the road - killed three people and severely injured two others. He was charged with DWI and not having a license also.
c: June 5 NBC17.com US Border Patrols estimate that illegals account for 1 in every 20 workers with 206,000 living in NC (where I live). This is having serious implications in my state as many of these people are the wives and children of the illegal worker. It costs about $7000 per year to educate a child in NC - do the math.
d: 6/24 CNN.COM 26 (illegal) members of the MS-13 gang were arrested in Charlotte NC. Wow! those are nice people!

Now these are only 4 articles that I pulled from news sources - on the other side there is estimated 500 THOUSAND immigrants defying deportation orders (Nov 14 WRAL.com). These are people our government knows are here and is unable or unwilling to do anything about. Remember, many of the 9/11 terrorists (oooohhh - buzz word) should not have been here in the first place or overstayed their visas.

On a personal note I love our naturalized citizens or our guests. I love the cultural and ethnic differences they bring. I enjoy learning about their native countries, the food, the traditions - and I live in a small town! But I want to know who my neighbors are and if there is a problem then the police, the government etc etc will have the appropriate means to find them. If we allow people to come here - or to any country - without proper and correct documentation then there is no incentive for that person to even use their correct name. Get caught - get deported - just come back with a new identity. All this has done is to make every person who is legal a 2nd class citizen as that person has the expectation of using the same identify for their entire life.

I live in a small community which is being over run with illegals but which also has a large farming community of legal workers so I issue a challenge to those who think that the 6 billion people of the world should have carte blanche to come here, please enter your home address and directions as those people will need a place to stay for free along with food - and I don’t want them in my house.