Four men face alien smuggling charges after 85 illegal aliens were discovered inside four tractor trailers. One of the trucks was local.

The arrests were made jointly by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Border Patrol.

ICE officials say the four stops occurred within a five-hour time span in Laredo, Texas. On-site canines assisted officers in discovering the illegal aliens.

Little specific information has been released by ICE, but a photograph released shows one of the tractor-trailers involved says Pittman Trucking, Newland on its side.

Rick Pittman of Pittman Trucking says he was contacted by ICE officials soon after the arrests were made two weeks ago. According to Pittman, his driver was approached at a truck stop and was told he could make extra money if he would leave the truck and come back. Once the truck was filled with illegal aliens, he was instructed to drive them to San Antonio. Pittman says the driver was promised $300 per alien smuggled. It’s something Pittman takes very seriously and, although the driver in question had been an employee for 10 years, Pittman says he will never again work for Pittman Trucking.

 ICE officials told Pittman they thought it was the driver’s first offense and that he had “learned his lesson.” According to Pittman, the trucking company has a zero tolerance policy in such incidents.

The four men charged with alien smuggling in the incident are 47-year-old Danny Pendergrass of Tennessee, 36-year-old Jesus Tristan of Mesquite, Texas, 55-year-old Lee Anderson of Alabama and 40-year-old Arturo Martin of Miami.

ICE officials are still investigating the case and are not releasing specific details at this time.

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Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 12:15AM $300 p/p, Wow!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 5:58AM I wonder how often this same thing happens, and the truckers are NOT caught. This is disgusting.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 6:53AM I could see how you'd need the dogs to sinff 'em out--were they packed in coffee beans?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 7:00AM Well if the Great American Worker (now there's a joke) asnt such a lazy drug addicted loser then they wouldnt be coming here. everyone says they work cheaper etc.etc... but the truth is hey they at least show up for work which is more than i can say for the last three white guys I hired, and the MEXICANS DONT STEAL NEARLY AS MUCH.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 7:54AM I have to agree with #5. People against immigration should try to run a business.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 8:04AM # 6 what you just said is the problem . if i pay some illegal a cheeper wage (cash) then i can keep more profit for MYSELF! because its MINE all MINE hahahahah no one can take it away from ME !

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 8:19AM #7, that is not what #6 said. He said that he agreed with #5. That statement is true, atleast they will work. Most farmers I know would love to hire locals, however to much like real work. Locals will not show up. Get off the money issue. Americans are just lazy.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 8:31AM 5 & 6 are perfectly correct. Mexicans work hard and they show up. Americans complain about their rights constantly and never mind the rights of the one who's paying to get a fair day's labor.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:01AM #8 is a bone head

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:12AM If they are here by correct methods and take our jobs, then good for them, if they are here by the way this story is told, then they should be put back in the same truck and sent back. let the driver pay for the trip back. The big loser in this story is the trucking company. I know Rick and he would never be involved in a tastless thing like this. to bad his good reputation has to be brought into this. there are plenty of trucking companys out there that are involved. $300 a mexican sounds like slavery revisited to me.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:21AM I wonder who is paying the $ 300 per person?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:27AM Why is #8 a bonehead? I didn't see anything about his comments that should draw such a response.

Kevin R Watts Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:44AM [smiley=angry] Ohew, that just makes my blood boil. I am so sick of the illegals. WHY don't they try so hard to change their OWN country?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:55AM Mr. Watts- Maybe you should try to change it for them - go on down there and start a business? You could relax on a nice beach as well sometimes and cool that blood down - it's not good for you to boil it.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:56AM #10 is right on. Also, if Americans are lazy, what are all of us doing at work??? Saying Americans are lazy is a very narrow-minded statement. Also, not all farmers can hire another person to work for them. Most of the farmers who hire these illegals, are getting some type of government funding. Do your homework folks.

Julia D Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:57AM Looks like illegals bring more money than any thing else!!!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:59AM 15 - Farmers are getting government funding to hire illegals?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:03AM # 15- apologies. I should have been more specific. Not all Americans are lazy, far from it. But the ones who are complaining that they are losing jobs to Mexicans (on building sites, tree farms etc.) are outclassed in terms of work ethic. Yep, they're lazy- love, the Bonehead

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:09AM How many Mexicans can you put in a truck sleeper?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:30AM How much do you people think a honest days work is worth? If you think $9.00 an hour is good ,your full of it i made $9.00 in 1991. Its all about cheap labor and YOU the employer should be fined $10,000 per illegal worker payable in 10 days then we would see this immigration take a different turn.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:46AM I would guess from the posts above most of you are profiting from the unarmed invasion of our country. It seems as long as someone else pays the cost or the American taxpayer subsidizes your cheap labor then it is OK. Illegal aliens cost this country more then the Iraq war. http://www.rense.com/general80/mroe.htm If you folks think illegal immigration is not going to effect you even up there in the Blue Ridge High Country, you are mistaken. Become informed www.wehategringos.com

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:57AM No, I'm not profiting in the least-I don't even eat all that cheap chicken that most of you love to scarf down at 39 cents a pound. However, I have a lot of business owner friends who have a dreadful time finding and then keeping workers that doen't constantly call in sick (hungover) or just not show up and that don't constantly goof off. Competition is a terrible thing for lazy workers.

BajaRat Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:17AM Illegal aliens are criminals, one and all. They turn once pleasant suburbs into gang-infested barrios full of chickens, goats, old uninsured beater cars, blaring ranchera music, and soaring crime rates. They tend to irresponsibly reproduce like rabbits, put a huge strain on our social safety net, refuse to assimilate, and are extremely crime-prone (i. e. stealing IDs or faking IDs in order to steal jobs from Americans and legal residents), and drive down wages for working Americans and legal residents. These criminals need to be ferreted out, rounded up like cattle, and promptly dispatched back to whence they snuck in from. Enough is enough! It's the law. Enforce it! And lock up those who smuggle the invaders for at least 20 years for the first offense. [smiley=angry]

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:24AM Having worked in structural steel construction in the mid-1970's I must say that the cost of living has soared since then. But wages in the field? They're about half what they were in 1975 compared to what they are today. The only folks who benefit from hordes of cheap workers from Mexico and elsewhere are the creeps who illegally hire them. The US worker not only takes it in the butt in wage losses, but also gets whacked for the social costs of the illegals.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:25AM LOl 23 sounds like you've been hanging out in some of those Deliverance-style areas here--only they're playing country music and they don't drive down wages because they don't work (at anything legal).

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:34AM under the MEXican Constitution no one other than a mexcan national can buy or own property thats why we dont go fix their country[smiley=think]

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:42AM Well if the Great American Worker (now there's a joke) asnt such a lazy drug addicted loser then they wouldnt be coming here. everyone says they work cheaper etc.etc... but the truth is hey they at least show up for work which is more than i can say for the last three white guys I hired, and the MEXICANS DONT STEAL NEARLY AS MUCH. Hows that slave labor you dirty crook. When you are caught the fines are now 16,000 a head. You sicken me.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 12:15PM I think #23 is politically incorrect, but correct. That person is brutally honest. And by the way, that person said "illegal" aliens, not the people that come here legally.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 12:25PM Mr Watts CAN'T own a business in Mexico..unless he has some major cash to drop on it. That's illegal in Mexico. And sitting on the beach? He would also not be allowed to own the property he sits on. It is illegal in Mexico for any non citizen to own oceanfront property. Do you not understand Mexican immigration law?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 12:39PM Too funny 26 and 29 - please don't apply for a job as attorneys any time soon. Mr Watts certainly CAN legally own property in Mexico via a bank trust. No, he can't own property on the beach, but who said you have to own property there to go to the beach? Hush up before you ruin the tourist trade as well as life for all those hundreds of thousands of AMERICANS who are currently buying up property in San Miguel etc (and raising prices on the locals I might add). anyway, you don't have to won property AT ALL in order to start a business. Look at Doe Ridge pottery etc.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 1:05PM #29 Do you not understand Mexican immigration law?[smiley=laugh]

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 1:25PM I agree #20, the illegals are making it harder and harder for the "lazy" American to get a job. Lazy Americans are no longer able to make ends meet and I blame it on the illegals. They are the ones who are dragging our economy down.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 1:28PM Very well stated #23!!!!!!!!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 1:28PM Very well stated #23!!!!!!!!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 1:50PM You can say that again. Oh wait, you did. Anyway, it wasn't well stated at all, it was a load of racist codswallop. 23 has celarly never tried to run a construction business.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 1:59PM I agree with #20. The criminal here is the employer who hires them. Cheap greedy b-------.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 2:29PM 20 you wouldn t last 10 minutes doing my kind of work. Your post was at 10:30 in the morning, workin in front of a computer aint the kind of work im talkin about. You know nothing. Who are you lou Dobbs Jr ???

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 4:20PM If a farmer or rancher refuses to hire a person because he asked him if he was an illegal alien, that person could sue him for discrimination. The department of Labor would help the illegal alien do the law suit. Now isn't the DOL part of the gov't? This was done in South Georgia.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 4:30PM Be interested to see the story on that (is this an actual story or a hypothesis?), but my guess would be that the farmer would only be sued if he refused to hire a Latino in case they were an illegal alien even though the person had real documentation. I'm guessing that your comment is nonsense, too, but I'm willing to be proved wrong if you have a trustworthy link (NOT to a blog).

cb Unregistered | 02/25/2008 4:46PM whats funny is this is an issue about smuggling people into our country and most of you have just totally missed that. And whats worse is readin this and most of you goin back and forth at each other hiding behind a comp and a "guest user" name. Point is it's called "illegal immigration" for a reason! stop tryin to make somethin that's Illegal seem Legal and justified!!!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 4:47PM some say that abortion in the United States caused their to be a worker shortage, which the illegal Mexicans and others from down south are now filling

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 4:57PM at 300 a each we all could use that to pay for the gas and diesel cost

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 5:02PM if more people would call ICE we could get rid of all of them and anyone that helps them can go to

justpete Unregistered | 02/25/2008 5:29PM they should be charged with a felony count for each illegal they transported. Some states have laws now that it is about equal to harboring a fugitive. At least they got caught there, we have enough illegals here already. Gastonia

Bobby Unregistered | 02/25/2008 5:36PM These human smugglers are some of the worst scum of humaity. Oh, Iknow, some liberal will come up with the sentiment that they are actually helping these folks into a better life,etc. Yeah, by often abandoning them in the desert to die, or just raping and murdering them. Americans are responsible for letting it go on. Comprehensive immigration reform is NOT THE ANSWER. Rather, jailing and fining the employers of illegal aliens is working in some states and making them go back to Mexico, for example. Speaking of Mexico, Mexico is a rich nation. The richest in all of South America. A Wall Street Journal Article admitted that ninety percent of Mexicans who come here illegally already had jobs in Mexico--they just like Americans jobs and the gravy train of benefits they receive once here,(at the citizens expense) better. What a surprise.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 6:25PM Bobby, please link to that WSJ article you refer to. It doesn't come up on a search. If it exists, it sounds like a Limbaugh fantasy to me, unless it's from OpinionJournal, which is usually a load of rubbish and an empbarrassment to a decent newspaper.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 6:52PM People who depend on cheap immigrants labor for their business do not belong in business. Growers have expanded massively since the '86 amnesty, using illegal labor to undercut market wages, then they scream like weasels when the scam is uncovered. They should never have expanded in the first place.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 6:57PM did they ship them back across the border or let them stay?and if they did who took them back?the truckers who brought them over?[smiley=think]

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 7:28PM The four men charged with alien smuggling in the incident are 47-year-old Danny Pendergrass of Tennessee, 36-year-old Jesus Tristan of Mesquite, Texas, 55-year-old Lee Anderson of Alabama and 40-year-old Arturo Martin of Miami. -------------------------------------- I hope these American bums will get plenty of time in prison to think their crimes over. [smiley=tongue]

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 7:38PM If you think this is a problem now look at what Obama wants to do with min. wage. His idea is for min wage to keep pace with inflation. Say goodbye to entre level positions and if you think it's hard to get teenagers to work now wait till that idea get's going...

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 8:48PM This is huge news. I am happy they got busted and that a local trucking company fired someone for it. People need to realize that these mexicans are ILLEGAL. If they would like to come into our country legally and obey our laws and pay taxes, then I have no problem. However, we need more illegal busts, like this, and we need to start shipping them out as fast as they can enter our country. Fine every illegal transporter and put them in prison - first offense. Fine every business that employs an illegal and put the owner in prison - first offense. Fine every landlord that gives them a place to live. Put illegals in prison for life for any crime that they commit. Make it a prison where they work for their food and shelter so that our tax money can quit supporting these illegal people.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 8:58PM for the people that support illegals living in our country, let those supporters sign up to use their tax dollars to pay the illegals' medical bills, the illegals' attorney fees when they kill someone, the illegals' prison expenses, and the illegals housing and food expenses. then, let the legal people who work, live, and pay taxes in American, keep that tax money for our own expenses. everyday working Americans would benefit with more take home pay on each check if our tax money was not used to pay expenses for people that have no legal right to be in our country.

Legal Immigrant Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:00PM YOU PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU`RE TALKING ABOUT AS USUAL. Anyone who supports illegal aliens, is either a bleeding heart liberal, an illegal alien labor profiteer, or an illegal alien. There`s not a job an American won`t do, for a decent living wage. The Jobs Americans won`t do nonsense is big business, and corporate slave politicians propaganda. It`s their corporate masters and the sell-out politicians, selling America and it`s jobs to the lowest bidder. WAKE UP AMERICA, AND TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:05PM You guys are pretty harsh on President Bush, John McCain, and all the other people that are trying hard to figure out how to keep our illegals. Wow, I haven't heard "corporate masters" since the 60s. Are you "sticking it to the man", too?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:22PM The illegal alien smugglers will get prison time. All illegal aliens should be deported. Is your employer using E-Verify to determine legal social security cards and immigration cards (green cards)?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:23PM "The Jobs Americans won`t do nonsense is big business". Yes, it certainly is, for the illegals. If we don't want to do it, there's always someone who will.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:38PM Join for free Alipac.us Numbersusa.com and Fairus.org. Take action America. These organizations lead the fight against illegal immigration.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:51PM #19-- about 30 if you pack em in tight!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:53PM Bobby? Where's that link? I'm intrigued.

William Matthews Unregistered | 02/25/2008 9:57PM I think I might have a solution to all of our illegal problems. We open our borders to all Mexicans, as they enter this country we place them in the army, after 2 or 3 years we close our borders, declare war on Mexico, ship them all over there to fight the war and we don’t have an exit strategy. That’s about the only way we are going to solve the problem, other than that we are all s.o.o.l. [smiley=laugh]

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Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:03PM 63. That certainly explains a lot.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:23PM I believe that everyone needs to understand the we are ALL GODS children, and we need to be treated the same. If it is fair for someone from Africa to come to the US then an hispanic can do the same.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:28PM Or a European come to that...from way back in the 16th century all through the ages.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 10:54PM Well I lost my job of 22yrs thru Nafa to mexico, and their still coming taking manufacturing jobs in Va.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:26PM The truckers responsible SHOULD

Guest User Unregistered | 02/25/2008 11:46PM Oh Bobby...there never was any such article in the WSJ, was there?

amk Unregistered | 02/26/2008 12:16AM Funny, isn't it...My father has owned a construction business for years and has used the E-verify system to verify his employees' legal status. Though he has had his share of bad employees (of all races and ethnic backgrounds - which he promptly fired), he never had trouble finding hard working American citizens. Of course, has paid them well for their labor, provided them with health care benefits, overtime pay and other perks, all while running a VERY successfule business. Perhaps those who have posted here condemming U.S. workers are lacking the skills to run a profitable business without breaking the law. It that is the case, your business deserves to fold. Oh, but that would mean YOU would have to find job that pays enough to support their loved ones..which shouldn't be too hard considering so many employers are bypassing cheap illegal alien labor in favor of hardworking American citizens!

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 12:21AM go to Google and search list of countries by unemployment rate Wikipedia says Mexico has a 3.70 percent unemployment rate and the United States has a 4.90 percent unemployment rate but the numbers don't mean much to me, the government has no real way of counting unemployed people

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 12:31AM Entropy is prevailing. mexico and it's invasion of America is proof. The fact that our elected officials have betrayed us is what hurts the most. I live in the once great state of ca. so.cal is now a third world dung heap. Now it will happen where you live too. In my vocation, moving and storage. mexes have ruined everything. If you are European American it is hard to find meaningfull employment. I know a man who owns a moving company. He told me that he fired his white workers and hired mexicans. "They work cheaper and are afraid to complain because they are here illegally". God help us, God help the sputh

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/new Unregistered | 02/26/2008 12:31AM February 15, 2008 85 illegal aliens discovered hidden inside 4 separate tractor trailers Most of the aliens had been locked inside the trailers with no means of escape LAREDO, Texas - Eighty-five illegal aliens were arrested here Thursday night as they were being smuggled into the United States hidden inside four tractor trailers. The four groups of smuggling-load arrests were made jointly by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Border Patrol, Laredo Sector. According to ICE and CBP, these four stops occurred within a five-hour time span as the trucks were entering the United States from Mexico. During CBP's routine inspection, agents either noticed suspicious activity coming from inside the trailers, or they were alerted by on-site canines on duty. Each of the truck drivers was then referred to secondary inspection. The first group of 15 Mexicans was discovered at about 7 p.m. hiding inside the cab's sleeper compartment. At about 8:30 p.m. a second group of 12 Mexicans and three Guatemalans was also found hiding in a tractor trailer's sleeper cab. Just before 11 p.m. another tractor trailer was stopped, and 32 illegal aliens were discovered in the locked trailer with no means of escape. The last truck was stopped just a few minutes later, and 20 Mexicans, two Hondurans, and a Salvadoran were found also locked in the trailer. All those discovered inside the trailers appeared to be in good health; they declined medical attention. Charges are pending against the four truck drivers that attempted to illegally smuggle these individuals. On Tuesday, all four drivers will appear before a federal magistrate to be formally charged. "This criminal activity clearly re-emphasizes the fact that human smugglers have no regard for human life," said Jerry Robinette, special agent-in-charge for the ICE Office of Investigations in San Antonio. "ICE will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to bring to justice those who blatantly disregard the laws of this nation. "Targeting these smuggling organizations is critical to securing our borders and ensuring compliance with our immigration and customs laws." This is an ongoing investigation. -- ICE -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was established in March 2003 as the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is comprised of five integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2008

cb Unregistered | 02/26/2008 12:55AM 46 and 47 come on up i'll be here. Sorry you took offence to my post but i just think it's rediculous everyone on here goin back and forth at each other and everyone is just missing the whole point. These guys done an illegal act period. And no matter how you look at it an illegal immigrant is an illegal immigrant stop tryin to make it justified for them to be here. If they go through the right steps to enter this country then so be it.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 9:22AM Americans cannot work for the wages that these illegals make. Americans do not live 3 or 4 families to a home, collect food stamps, free health care, subsidized electricity and phone. How do you think they can send so much money back to Mexico? Americans have to pay for what we have. Try doing that on $6 or $7 an hour.

VivaLaMigra! Unregistered | 02/26/2008 9:40AM My GAWD! The Fed's [ICE] let the Pittman truck driver go without so much as a slap on the wrist! At a bare minimum, his DOT license should be suspended or revoked! He turned his truck over to unknown parties and let them load it? He had no regard whatever for what he might be smuggling into the US? This is totally unacceptable. My thanks to Rick Pittman for firing this guy. He let GREED get in the way of his duty to his employer and the entire Nation. That, my friends, is treason.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 11:34AM What is even worse, Rick had to send a person to Texas to retrieve his truck and the Feds had tore it up from engine to trailer. I guess looking for Drugs, If he was not smart enough to let strangers alone with his truck he was not smart enough to let DRUGS on board either. Sorry Rick, it must be a nightmare for you

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 12:34PM I think that if the government tore up someone's truck for no good reason, they are criminal vandals and should be arrested.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 3:05PM THIS IS URGENT---LOOK AT WHAT PELOSI, HISPANIC CAUCUS, ETC. IS UP TO REGARDING ILLEGALS!!!--- FROM NUMBERSUSA!!---In a nutshell, your efforts to push the SAVE Act (H.R. 408 of Rep. Shuler (D-N.C.) and Rep. Bilbray (R-Calif.) are increasingly successful. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fears that the current 136 co-sponsors will succeed in forcing a House floor vote on the bill to take jobs away from millions of illegal aliens. She desperately wants to keep the 12-20 million illegal aliens in this country. So, she is maneuvering to attach a 5-year amnesty proposal of the Hispanic Caucus. Her hope is that she will either win with the amnesty or just make the bill so bad that we will help her kill the enforcement.----They are hoping that if the illegals are given the 5-year amnesty---and businesses who are hiring the illegals given "safe harbor"---that they can eventually push for full amnesty/citizenship for the illegals.----PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.......Register with this FREE site so that you are able to send FREE faxes so that we can stop Pelosi and the Hispanic Caucus. The site will alert you through email every time faxes need to be sent--letting you know to log onto the site and go to the "Action Buffet".---- http://www.numbersusa.com---Other GREAT sites to join:---http://www.alipac.us----www.minutemanhq.com

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 3:51PM If farmers would pay a living wage I am sure they could hire Amercians. If they cannot-maybe they shouldn't be farming.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 4:44PM This is not about Mexicans, it is about illegal immigration. Most Mexicans like most Americans are hard working honest people. But if we are going to have laws against illegal immigration we need enforce them. I don't have the answer but we can't just throw open the doors and let anyone into this country who wants to be here. Not anymore.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 4:44PM This is not about Mexicans, it is about illegal immigration. Most Mexicans like most Americans are hard working honest people. But if we are going to have laws against illegal immigration we need enforce them. I don't have the answer but we can't just throw open the doors and let anyone into this country who wants to be here. Not anymore.

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 5:14PM 77 Did you ever wonder why Pelosi and Bush, usually bigtime foes, are on the same page on this? Could it be that they have a better grasp of the practicalities of the situation than you do?

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 5:19PM maybe Bush and Pelosi both want Mexico, the United States, and Canada to become one single country; known as the North American Union

Guest User Unregistered | 02/26/2008 5:32PM Oh sure. That makes perfect sense.

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