Bush, senators seek common ground on immigration

I'm so fucking tired of hearing about immigration. It's amazing to me that with everything going on in the world, this is the thing that people want to focus their attention on. I'm sure that there are a lot of problems related to illegal immigration, but I don't think many people are very interested in really solving them, seems they'd rather just bitch about them. You can't put up a fence and expect that to keep people out when what's on the other side is a better life for them and their children. And there are just too many to realistically send them all back. The only way to fix the problem, is to make sure that there isn't a better life waiting for them here, and that isn't going to happen until people stop hiring them, which means people will need to be willing to pay more for things in order to allow for replacing them with American workers. And that just isn't going to happen.

At lunch today, I overheard a guy at the next table saying something to the effect that they should all be forced to walk back over the border as soon as they are found to be here illegally. So either he thinks that they simply cross the border and set up camp right there, or he's proposing some kind of death march back to Mexico. Either way, it didn't make much sense to me. And this is in Jacksonville, FL, where I've lived for almost 30 years and never once noticed a local problem that could be blamed on illegal immigration.

It's sad that a handful of racist nutjobs have more influence over policy in this country than the millions of Americans who oppose just about everything else our idiot President does. But I guess if someone can get Sean Hannity to pull his head out of George Bush's ass for even one issue, it does cause people to notice.