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This website brings out a few talking points. Everyone should read this.

Some good points:

1.As it is today, our government cannot answer basic questions about the flood of illegals across our border. How many illegals exactly have crossed the border and are in this country?

2. America’s job crisis is vastly worse than what one might gather from the numbers released monthly by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which systematically exclude the many millions of Americans who comprise the long-term unemployed and those who have simply given up looking for work.

3. It is perhaps the greatest irony of all that progressives who clamor for vastly greater federal and state funding for health care, education, transportation and other public services are also those spearheading the opposition to border security initiatives and amnesty support. The influx of millions of illegals has only made all of these mounting problems worse as illegals consume these resources (and, of course, pay no offsetting federal or state taxes in exchange for them).

4.Many millions of foreigners from all over the world are, right now, legally seeking U.S. citizenship. The legal process to obtain U.S. citizenship is largely cumbersome, bureaucratic and lengthy, but many follow this process exactly and patiently as required. Under amnesty proposals, however, these foreigners, those we might call “legal immigrants,” continue waiting in their foreign lands as those who crossed our southern border in violation of U.S. federal law are rewarded with U.S. residency, access to many of our country’s public benefits and infrastructure, and ultimately citizenship.

5. There are few issues on which Americans are more united than the fact that the borders of the country should be secure and that those who enter this country illegally in violation of U.S. federal law should not, in turn, be rewarded.

Of course, all of these are facts lost on most Washington policymakers who are increasingly disengaged from the sentiments and concerns of the American people they purport to represent. Americans in 2014 are hurting. Failing to secure the border and granting amnesty to millions of illegals stands to further inflame these problems: damaging the already anemic U.S. job market, increasing crime and the demand on public resources, and perhaps even opening the door for what Americans have feared most since September 11, 2001: a coordinated terrorist attack on the U.S. mainland. These are deadly serious problems. But a political movement that can, right now, understand and communicate these facts with the urgency they require is likely to find broad support among the American people.

Opinion:

a. We keep hearing that we should feel sorry for these oppressed people who come to this country seeking freedom and opportunity. The media is actively pushing this every day, all day.

b. These people have committed a crime that would carry severe penalties in their own country if the situation was reversed (me illegally going into their country.)

c. We keep hearing that these people are fleeing corrupt governments and gangs in their own countries. Sorry, but I didn't create those corrupt politicians and gangs. If you don't like the status quo in your country...change it. It won't be easy, but do it.

d. Granted many of the ILLEGALS are peaceful and hard workers. But how many are hardened criminals seeking new territory to plunder. I would like an accurate figure from our government on this.

e. I feel that before we can get a handle on this problem we must have an accurate count on the ILLEGALS in this country. Why is there no government push to get that count?

f. One of the most basic duties of any government is to provide secure borders for the safety of its citizens. With our pourous borders could not a case be made for dereliction of duty against the Legislative and Executive Branch of our government?