Yes it is, or they would not be coming in the dead of night.

They know they are breaking the law, but think it is okay because their country gives them written instructions how to do it and says it is okay, and folks like you in this country say it is okay too.

Point is: someone who walks across the border w/o permission is illegal and should therefore be shot - according to your earlier post.

Compare this person to someone who scams their way into the US (by whatever means), and doesn't do the paperwork absolutely right and is therefore also "illegal"; i.e., they are not there legally.

As a matter of law, both are in country illegally and both are in the same boat.

But according to you, the person in the first example should be shot; while the person in the second example should not be shot - at least not yet - because they might just be your newly wedded wife.

Can you appreciate just how ridiculous this position of yours is?

Dottore, where do you live? I need to come get your 88 Carrera to put in my garage, that is okay right? You have it and I don't, so to be fair you have to give it to me, as I am poor and disadvantaged, with only a four cylinder Porsche. You can keep the newer car, so there is nothing wrong with that at all.

Is Friday good for you?

I think you're missing the point.

I'm talking to someone who thinks it's right to shoot people just because they're on the the wrong side of some arbitrary line, and yet then go ahead and marry someone who did a bit of smart paperwork to get across that very same line, and think that's all right, thank you very much.

Sorry, but I believe that you have to be a moral/intellectual pygmy to think that way.

No offense Rick - but I think you have issues.

I see sick people.

Just sent you a pm.

Now, I'm not in favor of undocumented immigration by any means. I think they should be deported but before they can be called criminals they have to be convicted of a crime and by and large these folks haven't.

They are allegedly here illegally, until they is a trial and a conviction they are just undocumented.

Where are your American sensibilities Racer?

It's funny how the gov't is losing are tax dollars on the #$%^ illegals while we are spending much more in Iraq.

Let's make sure these tax dollars can go to a country 99% of us will never visit.

Yeaayy!!!!!

Some disgustingly sick MFs if you ask me. Would any of you put a "welcome, come on in & don't bother knocking'" sign in front of your house, and then shoot anyone who entered? That's essentially what your hero GWB has done, despite what the laws state, and now you want to KILL them? It seems to me that some of you guys would like to take the mantra from our disgusting past: "The only good "injun" is a dead "injun", replace "injun" with "illegal alien", and some of you would be delighted. I'm not at all in favor of illegal entry, but look no further than the the current administration's policies for the REAL source of this problem imo. They are coming accross the borders (and on airplanes) in droves because Bush's policies (and the special business interests) have essentially laid out the "welcome mat" for them. Should we also shoot "professionals", college students, etc. whose temporary visas have expired? Damn, my day is off to a great start after reading some of this stuff...

Maybe they should sue the Mexican govt. 'Cause in their instructions about how to illegally sneak into the USA they left out, "Eef ju see a lot of smoke, run like Speedy Gonzales or your wetback ass will be "al carbon."

I don't want to shoot all illegal border crossers. But use of deadly force should be authorized so people start taking the border seriously. The signs and fences are more of a joke than 55mph speed limit signs on our roads.

And Dottore, whether one makes a mistake on their paperwork is not remotely comparable to those who don't ever intend to even try to do the paperwork and break in via the desert. I never said anything about shooting all illegals. I said it should be authorized for the Border Patrol to defend the border with deadly force. That's got nothing to do with people who came here 100% legally and then fell out of status because of some bureacratic snafu, usually through no fault of their own. Bottom line is that such people came here legally and made good-faith efforts to stay here legally. Those coming in through the desert have no such intentions and are the most blatant of lawbreakers.