Bob Gorrell for January 28, 2013

but isn’t America the land founded by immigrants?

I wonder if some time in the future someone will look at this cartoon and wonder if we were all a bunch of paranoid racist.

Illegal is illegal, and the laws need to be reviewed, and yes, enforced. At the same time, this call for more drones, more fences, and more destruction of OUR rights as AMERICAN CITIZENS sickens me, and indeed does bring back memories of that border fence in Germany, and the fences Israel has built, and the ones WE built in Iraq. The “iron curtain” was a political statement addressed by Eisenhower, that later became a physical barrier, that WE are now building, not just on our borders, but in our communities

Stop the sale of illegal drugs, legalize marijuana, and the “cartels” made up of AMERICANS doing business on this side of the border, lose their profit potential. Those operating on the other side also lose their market if we do treatment for addicts, instead of incarceration, more profit lost.

Bring back “green card” migrant workers and help agriculture here, and the economy in Mexico and Central America when those folks go back home with money for part of the year when not working here. (and yes, they pay their taxes here as well).

When I see wire and fences, I see dead people, not “America”, unless you consider it the land of the imprisoned, and land of the chickenhawks.

Sorry, HOME of the chickenhawks!

so the idea of selling USA citizenshipships at walmart is gaining support

Why do we limit immigation, anyway? Let people live where they want, so long as they obey the laws where they live.

Flake: being a ranching and farming community, those “migrants” are commonly in our culture. The biggest population lived three blocks from my house. In 32 years, only locked the doors when we were going to be gone for several days, or weeks We never felt the least “threatened”.

We recently moved, and have a minimum security prison less than a mile from the house, and we’re “outside of town”. The folks before us didn’t lock the doors, and neither do we. Maybe we’re just safer with an “attack” dachshund and tabby cat?

Also, the years I spent in Southern Californiaalso put me close to “Mexican” and “immigrant” communities. Interestingly a high school classmate did return to Mexico. He had to miss our 40th high school reunion and sent a letter of apology for missing, as he was “second in command” in the Mexican State Deprt, and was on a trip to Europe and Russia. Yep, all those “Mexicans” and immigrants coming here are “low achievers”.

The best solution to the “problem” of illegal immigration is legal immigration. LEGALIZE IT! A Good Cartoon..Immigration is legal. Not seeing your logic.

Most of the people who arrived before the 20th century just more or less showed up. It wasn’t until the racists took hold that we started worrying about “documentation” and “legality.”

But by then the Statue of Liberty was already in the harbor and we liked what it did for our public image, plus we’d invented all that bushwa about how the Indians welcomed the Pilgrims as a myth about our willingness to help newcomers.

So we pretended we still felt that way.

What does locking the doors on your house have to do with immigration policy? Please explain the connection.

The president appears to be pushing for amnesty with no firm workable plan on closing the border to illegals. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what his plan would be if he knew that most forgiven illegals would vote R?

Not if the Republicans don’t go along with the plan. Last election, 67% of Latinos voted Democratic — and that figure includes the heavily GOP Cuban-American vote.

Clue: You can’t keep … um … whiddling on people’s heads and think they’ll vote for you.