Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Pretty largely true.

Originally Posted by Craig

Good luck with that plan, comrade.

BTW, is sheriff Joe (spelled Arpaio, I believe) still being chased by the DOJ?

That clown actually tried (personally) to give me a ticket a few years ago. I was consulting at a nuclear power plant in AZ with a group of federal regulators, and it happened to be the first day of a maintenance outage. As a result, there were several hundred out-of-state contract employees arriving (mostly maintenance techs). Our friend Joe set up a road block and gave them each a ticket for working in AZ without changing their auto license/registration (he does this every year). It's just a small time scam, these guys will usually pay the ticket instead of giving up a day's pay to go to court. Anyway, he tried to give me a ticket and they guy I was with flashed his federal ID and basically told Joe to F-off. Hopefully the feds will put this guy away eventually.

Originally Posted by Txjake

Clown? no, a stern upholder of the law. The feds have been after him since he is not PC and doesnt fit into the Fed agenda regarding illegals. I especially like how he houses and dresses and feeds his prisoners...Sheriff Joe rocks and has immense popular support.......

Originally Posted by Craig

Very true; and it's a big disappointment to those who want america to be more like north korea, iran, afghanistan, saudi arabia, china, venezuela, and cuba.

Sorry guys, but that's not how we roll.

Originally Posted by aklim

How about being like say other countries that have rules about legal immigration?

They know how stupid we are which is why they take advantage of it. As they say "A sucker is born every day". I have yet to see any part of the world besides here where people are proud of their stupidity and the fact that they are being made suckers of every day, every hour.....

Originally Posted by Craig

I was just making fun of the unintentional irony in the original post.

We all know the story with illegal immigration, no-one in power (either party) really wants to do anything about it, so it's not going to change. I don't think it's a big issue, but I guess some people do.

Originally Posted by Craig

no-one in power (either party) really wants to do anything about it, so it's not going to change.

I don't think it's a big issue, but I guess some people do.

Originally Posted by Txjake

if you lived in a border state, you might feel differently

Originally Posted by Txjake

if you lived in a border state, you might feel differently

Originally Posted by aklim

Which state would that be? Every state now is a border state because we were stupid.

Originally Posted by Craig

LOL; we have plenty of "illegals" here, it's not a problem for me.

Originally Posted by aklim

One party is paid off by the businesses that profit from it, the other is paid off by votes, why should they do anything?

Well, if it doesn't tax the infrastructure or cost money, you might say it isn't a big deal financially. OTOH, what does it say about stupidity and the law? It says you are too stupid to do anything about someone barging into your house. It also says that the law is conveniently overlooked for a few bucks in the elected's coffers. But I suppose, it isn't a big thing if you omit those things. And if you omit the damage from 911, it isn't that big a deal. Building was old anyways.

Originally Posted by aklim

As I said before, the nickle and dime approach is working. Ask for a big chunk up front and people balk. Enough people like you that get nickled and dimed to death BUT don't know it and they have succeed. I think they took a page from the Romans with the bread and circuses. Keep the citizens distracted and don't let them focus on anything and you can go on your merry way.