As has been the case of individuals through history. Has something changed?

No, he didn’t have the power. He spoke through GW Bush who did and said what Cheney told him to say.

Immigration policy needs to be examined objectively. President Obama has deported more illegal immigrants in history, but all you hear is rant and rave over this issue.

Let me guess. You’re a high school English teacher, right?

You’re another blabbermouth Scapegoating someone else for your own problems.

Even Illegal Immigrants contribute something. Don’t they buy things; clothing, gas for the cars, smokes, food?

They’re not totally worthless.

Tell ya what, if you really want to complain about being taken for a ride, first look at all these Corporate-Backed Republicans who helped funnel our jobs, technology and wealth to China.

Not to mention Wall Street gutting just about everyones 401s, savings etc.

Want to blame someone, put the blame where it belongs; the GOP!

Do you let people from other towns or from different states take your job?

You need to take a closer look at this administration’s immigration actions. ICE is under scrutiny for punishing their own who tried to do their duty.

Bill — Obama came into office and starting sweeping undocumented aliens back across the border with a new broom. Bush had never deported any, although the states had arrested some and returned them to Mexico, but no previous administration moved them out the way Obama has done. He was fought the whole way by border states like AZ and Texas [of course, the reason W didn't deport them was because he could never have gone back to Texas if he had; they're the foundation of the economy there]. AZ pled state sovereignty in order to keep selling attack weapons, 20, 40, or 60 to each unidentified buyer, innocently denying that any of them ended up in Mexico. Nevertheless, the border is secured to an extent never achieved before, proven by the fact that the number of border crossers found dead escalated by about a factor of three. I’m not proud of it, but for the very, very least, you could stop making stupid remarks that betray that you have never read anything ever.

Xactly. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.

I live in Az now, I was born in Houston, I have fought against illegals all of my life, then Reagon gave amnesty to 20 million illegals. What we need is to enforce the laws we have. we also n’t want eed to fine and imprison people who hire them. The repubs don’t want that, they want cheap labor and to bust all unions, and do away with all worker protection. As ,long as repubs hate the middle class worker we will have illegals.

Welcome to the metling pot.. aka the USA ..the land of immigrants.

True, but now we are in a recession and don’t need all that crap coming in and making the situation even worse.

Also: The nineteenth and early twentieth century immigrants were interested in becoming Americans.

The clowns that are coming in now want to go back to their third world shitholes.

So ask yourself why unions can’t exist in right-to-work states.

Exactly why should employees share in the profits? They are not owners. They will not work without vacations or weekends off or more than 8 hours without extra pay. They will not mortgage their homes to meet a payroll. Many employers do grant bonuses or extra awards for good performance, but it is purely a discretion of the owners. You need to try to see things from the perspective of someone who has taken the risks and put in the time and sacrifice to start a company.

Employees are hired to do a job. When hired, they know exactly what the compensation will be, what the benefits will be. If they can’t accept that situation, they have the choice to choose another employer. They also have another choice, they can start their own business.

Many employers do share their profits with their employees usually through something like a 401k, but the choice is strictly up to them. If an employee truly wants to share in the profits of a company, that employee needs to start their own business. They need to take the financial risk. They need to work the 12-13 hour days. They need to work 7 days a week and forego vacations for years. They need to deal with employees like you.
Frankly, if you are dealing with a ‘wage-slave’ market, it simply means you haven’t prepared yourself with marketable skills or the appropriate work ethic.
So you and other like-minded slackers want another term for Obama. I can see why.

Let’s just say, that you couldn’t be more wrong. And if this is an example of your judgement skills, welcome to the world of minimum wage.

Montana Bill has it right. We can tolerate the legals. It’s the illegals who are the problem.

Mine came over mostly from Germany and England and went through the citizenship process. Hard to track prior to 1850 when census records only mentioned a head-of-household and didn’t list spouses or children. Those that came over after 1850 can be tracked through passenger manifests and naturalization records, then can be tracked farther back in Europe.

YOU HAD 8 YEARS OF GEORGE BUSH, WHAT DID HE DO.
WHY DO YOU WAIT FOR A DEMOCRAT AND THEN START CRYING THAT HE IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT IMMIGRATION, PATHETIC.

As someone who’s ancestry in this country goes back to the 1600s, it amuses me to see the grandchildren of immigrants alarmed about the influx of illegal immigrants from Latin America eroding their economic status. Have you ever considered what the immigration of your European ancestors did to the economic status of the Americans already in the US? Your ancestors were brought into America to depress wages, destroy labor unions and to help keep Black and Native Americans in poverty. The exact same reason our government turns its eyes away from the current illegal immigration. These immigrants are let in precisely to lower wages, destroy unions and keep blue collar Americans in their place. During the late 1800s and early 1900s every time African American communities began to pull themselves up economically, the white government would open up the immigration floodgates and new waves of ‘white’ immigrants would enter the country taking jobs from more qualified black Americans and depressing wages. It is fair to say that the reason black Americans are poor is because those European immigrants and their children (you) took and are still taking jobs and opportunities that would have gone to African Americans if the white European immigrants hadn’t been let in. Now that the immigrants aren’t European anymore, white Americans are all upset about ‘their’ economic status. Hypocrite. This is Karma – what goes around comes around.

I’m sure, montanabill, that YOUR ‘distant relatives’ absolutely DID use the legal process that was in place at the time they arrived. That that process existed to screw anyone who wasn’t white, was beside the point. Had no such law been around, your “distant relatives” would have made one up.

I agree……………

The slam against Scalia is that he is just a heartless man. Immigration policy will only reduce immigration if we go back to the Simpson-Kennedy bill which held employers to the fire, huge fines and other penalties for hiring undocumented workers. Reduce the reasons for coming and there is no need for walls.

Within my circles, the problem is we have has nothing to do with immigration; it is his clear lack of impartiality regarding the Citizens’ United decision. If you helped modify/craft it, you should not be allowed to weigh in on the decision regarding whether it is constitutionally allowed. Six of seven state supreme court justices in Montana ruled that it is unconstitutional. The fact that ruling to allow this legislation falls in line with, and thereby supports, his personally held political agenda is a clear conflict of interest.

Scalia behaves not like a Justice but a careless, thoughtless bigot trying to satisfy his right wing buddies. Scalia has already earned the reputation of one of the most arbitrary, most corrupt SCOTUS judge. So, when you herald him as the reference on ANYTHING it is laughable.

The left have many slams against Justice Scalia immigration is only one. I personally have problems with his stance regarding personal liberty which he is for when it is his liberty and against when it is mine.

My REAl problem with Justice Scalia is his cozy relationship with the Koch brothers.

Justice is suppose to be blind but Justice Scalia is always peeking out from under the blind fold. He will even put the scales aside so he can use both hands to grab the main prize.

The home mortgage scandal was the creation of the Affordable Housing fiasco and the insistence of one Barney Frank, that everything was okay and that Bush’s concerns were unwarranted. It is history. Look it up.

Cause in MY history-book of that disaster, Bush was too busy fighting his Iraq War, and looking increasingly dim because of it, and that was his only concern. “Affordable Housing fiasco?” Barney Frank? The first thing Bush did after 9/11, was to GUT the White Collar Crime Division. Clearly, either he wasn’t worried about White Collar Crime at all—or, just on his own general principles, Bush must’ve L-O-O-V-E-D all those banksters, and THAT’S WHY MOST OF THEM HAVEN’T BEEN PROSECUTED, TO THIS DAY—-what they did, mortgage fraud, was no longer a crime! A BIG THANK YOU TO YOUR PRECIOUS—-(AND THEIRS, LOL!) BUSH!!!

Do you remember 1985? Ronald Reagan’s dictum: “Wet Foot, Dry Foot”? At that time it was the Cuban refugees from Castro’s Cuba. Reagan ruled that if anyone wishing to come to America, even if he had one wet (from swimming) and one dry foot on land, he was AN AMERICAN!!!!

Usually about 1 hour per evening, then on to other channels. Why is it that you seem to think that the question has been answered?