Sir;... You are wrong to believe that those who break into this land have no love for it... Many give their lives to get here, and many suffer death, injury, pain, and slavery as a fact while here to make their children legal citizens...Our biggest source of illegal aliens accounts for the greatest percentange of congressional medal of honor winners... Aliens across the board are some of the finest people you could ever want to meet, not unlike our dispossessed natives, proud and justly so, of their courage and intelligence... You must understand Mr. Buckanan, that the sentiments expressed in the Declaration of Independence, which is our founding document, apply to all human beings... In a sense, all the world is America, and all of America is the world....The Dream of liberty so often denied for the pride of the American Dollar cannot be quenched in the human heart by blood or sweat, but only by the free water shared by a free nation...If this is the only place on the planet where human beings can know the rights essential to existence and a happy life then let them come, and let us go and make the world free... People come here for freedom...Many come for the wealth taken from their native lands by Americans....We do not have their wealth, and we do not have our own; but those who have their goods have ours as well... You know, that Rome in its day was a lure unto all the conquered foreign lands for anyone with courage, ambition, and invention, or initiative... All those who could not bear the cost of conquest were cast into slavery, and the empire was depopulated; and still, people went to Rome...People come here though we have long ago rolled up the welcome mat... It is because what America represents, if not what it demonstrates, are eternal, and essential values to all of humanity...Forgive humanity for needing exactly what you need from your life...Concentrate on empowering people in distant lands to demand what they need in their own societies even if that ruins them as a market for our ideas and goods...People break into this land out of love, but many learn to hate it soon enough.... It is very often easier to love a lady from afar, even if she be liberty....Thanks...Sweeney

Mr. Buchanan - I agree with you. Unfortunately, this entire illegal immigrant job issue is has come too far and its too late to turn it around. Not because we cannot protect the borders or employers (only a few) wouldn't want to abide by immigration laws. Its because the American workforce will not settle for jobs taken and preformed by lillegal immigrants during the past 30 years. Its the attitude and frustrations and the 'wannabe' elite feeling that prevents Americans from filling in such posts. This is sad, but true. Combine this with the political 'short-term gain/show me now or you're out' attitude, and you'll realize that neither the lawmakers or any President would want to (or would be advised to) do something to change this. Then again, anyone besides Obama-shlobama or the discounted McCain would be better for the White House.

Re: Ali Mogharabi; Sir, your opinion is full of non-sense.... There are plenty of jobs that illegals do because they are illegal, and they are looking for opportunity for something better.... Many of these same jobs have had the money drained out of them by middle men and financier.... Bankers and middlemen squeezed all the profit out of slavery long before politics made it unacceptible..Who knows that the masters would not have been more humane if the bankers did not demand so much.... Now; if the children of slaves, having a living memory of slavery passed from generation to generation will not accept slavery in the form of dead end wage slavery who are you to criticize???Instead of abusing these people for resisting slavery we should commend them...It is better for them to die free, sitting on their back sides than pulling a plow down wall street....If you want them to work, pay them, A LOT... Make it worth their while... The Spanish and many other immigrants come here of their own free will, having no memory of slavery, and no grudge against the terrors meant to keep them down....They did not survive generation after generation denied their basic civil rights.... If you decide that they now deserve slavery as the price of advancement; tell them what they have ever gotten from it in the past.... We could close up our borders... We could demand a living wage for all workers... We could make certain the money men did not squeeze the life and humanity out of any industry, especially one so necesary to our long term health as agriculture...Remember what Caesar said.... Facing trouble with recruitment, one of his generals suggested a raise in pay...Caesar said: Double it... It takes a lot to capture the imagination of a Roman... It takes a lot to capture the imagination of an American too...People will work like slaves for any price above that of slavery...It simply cannot be for nothing...Thanks...Sweeney