[fabsroman]

I think that most of the illegal immigrants are hard workers. Granted, they are poor, but they are still hard workers that will try to make ends meet. The few bad ones are the ones that give the rest of them a bad name.

I would prefer to have all of them registered, trackable, and paying taxes versus working as illegals. Simply shipping all of them back probably will not work because finding all of them is the problem. Giving them a way to become a citizen and closing off the border at the same time, would be the best way to solve this. Of course, anybody that has a bad criminal record would need to go back.

We should also crack down on businesses that hire them. Over 300 illegals were found at a chicken processing plant somewhere in the midwest I believe, and while they were rounded up and the small town was decimated of its population, not a single fine was levied against the corporation, even though each instance carries a $25,000 fine. Maybe, just maybe, if the federal government were to enforce these fines against big business, big business, and maybe small business, would think twice about hiring illegals. For the past couple of years, businesses have been able to access the SSA records to verify SS#'s upon hiring people, so why do we still have this problem? It is because the illegals are willing to work hard for very little money.

As far as medicaid and welfare are concerned, those are problems in and of themselves.