Hey Geraldo.  Why don’t about 20 million Americans who want the illegal aliens here conduct an experiment? Meet anywhere on the Southern border and cross into Mexico. Then look for work, taking jobs from Mexicans. Use the Mexican hospitals (for free), register at Mexican schools. Sign up for Mexican welfare. Demand Mexican food stamps. Have parades in the cities waving the US flag. Commit crimes, rape and murder and drive drunk on the Mexican roadways. Bankrupt the Mexican states with your presence.

Now see who in Mexico stands up for your “right ” to be there.

Frances, please include the video where the discussion got heated. I really like to watch heated discussions, but you did no show the clip of that.

Geraldo should have ended the segment by saying ” Feliz Navidad” to Eric!

Hey Gloves. Remember getting one of those plastic nose/mustache,glasses sets and trick or treating as Geraldo Rivera?

Please enlighten me teabaggers, how does the government get rid of 11 million immigrants?

They will self deport when there are no jobs and no services available to them. Got it lib?

Oh ok. So there will never be anyone willing to pay cash for labor? It’s already illegal to hire undocumented workers, so…why are they still here?

Christmas Cheer .

You think the Rich Righties are going to give up their cheap labor? 

BWHAHHAAHAHAH!!!

You TeaBaggers are Stupid Simpletons!

They’ll tell you whatever you Clowns want to hear so you’ll stupidly vote for them but they have NO intention of ever doing ANYTHING to get rid of their cheap and readily abundant labor force.

TeaBaggers……Clowns!

Free school, free health care, people who break the law and hire illegals. 

What are you 3?

So I ask again, how do you get rid of 11 million immigrants?

guess grafx really has NOTHING to add to the discussion… otherwise, why resort to the lib’s usual tactic of projecting (calling people names that actually apply to themselves).

As Reagan so succinctly put it… “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Send them a letter telling them that they have won a new TV , but they have to show up in person to recieve it .

It’s worked on  “Cops” in the past .

You know what I like most about I illegal immigration.
The identity theft.
Good times good times.

I would agree with you more, Geraldo, IF they were interested in integrating. BUT, what they want to do, is infiltrate. They may leave their homeland behind, but they don’t leave their culture behind…

The Reagan the gave 3 million immigrants amnesty?

You TeaBagger Dopes are such simpletons! 

TeaBaggers are just single issue reacting animals with no critical thinking abilities.

Reagan……BWAHAHAHAH!!!

The truth blinds you fools.

Hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik

Arrrrgh! Mediaite’s video servers have been screwed up for awhile. Anyone else having trouble opening the vids? I know the Abrams media empire can afford better.

That’s the funny part.  Mexico is very strict on immigration but want us to have open borders and allow all their people in.  The hyporcrisy is laughable. 

Conservatives like to mention that the illegals should get in line for legal immigration benefits without mentioning that 99% of all Mexicans would not qualify for any US immigration benefits.

Pretty much sounds like the argument used to demean every culture that has immigrated here.

Yes you would be the expert on “laughable hypocrisy” and anger management issues.

So glad you’re here. So glad.

The cold, hard truth that people such as Geraldo Rivera and some here in comments OMIT from all discussions about illegal aliens as to employment (“they took our Jeeooobs”) in the U.S. is this:  citizens must pay taxes and in fact, pay for all those resources those illegal aliens are using, and, also, support themselves and their dependents; while, comparatively, illegal aliens work for cash (mostly unreported) and use many  goods and services that the US taxpayers are held liable for financially (among other things, we also must contend with the many other liabilities  they create in the U.S.).  THUS, illegal aliens, yes, work in “jobs Americans won’t do” but it’s not because U.S. citizens (we “Americans”) won’t work at hard labor or low-paying jobs but because we have too many bills to pay whether we want to or not and some of those are to cover the expenses of illegal aliens — all t hose “free breakfasts, lunches and weekend dinners” illegal aliens’ and children enjoy, with the free educations, rents, emergency medical care, all of it  is the burden of the U.S. taxpayers and pay for entry-level jobs don’t cover all that for citizens/taxpayers, while illegal aliens actually come out ahead financially because  their “expenses” for the greater part  are there for the taking by them without them having to pay for it all.   Geraldo is an intellectual coward and is part of our national shame.

The reason we are suffering in unemployment in this country is not because some Mexicans are earning 7 dollars an hour picking crops, or otherwise doing hard labor, it is because the big US corporations, the ones paying record low taxes, moved all the manufacturing jobs overseas in an effort to increase their profits to record levels. But conservatives are not permitted to criticize big corporations, only poor Mexicans.

And those areas  Geraldo Rivera claims are improved BECAUSE OF illegal immigration are a fantasy among his many outrageous allegations.  Rivera claims liabilities are “improvements” and never allows  truth into his ideas as  to at what expense to the U.S. those “improvements” he claims occur are made by his other ethnic-supremacist peers.  Rivera is referring to what he prefers as to his “culture”: by overtaking others and replacing theirs with his, that’s in Rivera’s limited views “an improvement” — but he cannot deny that the “culture” from whence nearly all illegal aliens come and then attempt to insist on the U.S. afterward are failed:  does the U.S. REALLY need “imrovement” along the lines of what Haiti, Mexico and the rest of Central America and South America offer?  Seems to me that Rivera would be much happier living in Mexico City or Colombia. Wait, he wouldn’t? And why not?

The local packing company once paid $25 per hour, with the new owners, they pay $12 per and have all Mexican workers.

Now just stop it, you know the truth hurts. Any time you land a Reagan blow they go crazy and the thread ends in a major harrumph!

And therein lies the answer: most who resort to illegal immigration are not qualified to be in the U.S. legally, nor to remain here legally.  Thus, the “comprehensive immigratiion reform” nonsense is just that: nonsense. It proposes that illegal aliens (“who’ve been here longer, no felonies,” etc.) “should be allowed to remain here legally” (thus, that they be granted amnesty), WHEN, TO THE CONTRARY, they’ve already established (and done so over and over again) that they are not qualified to be in the U.S. or to remain here legally.  If someone doesn’t qualify for legal immigration under US laws/requirements, that means they’re not qualified.  INSTEAD, people who are not respectful of our laws and requirements enter illegally.  Allowing such to remain here afterward is idiocy and self-destructive.  Perhaps Rivera should offer them his lawn and to pay their expenses, see how long he was a fan of their liabilities afterward.

Illegal immigration is about behavior.  It’s not about race or culture, it’s about behavior.  Except that the current trend of illegal immigration is motivated by corrupt “culture” that seeks to disrupt other ethnicities and worse, religions:  Hispanic ethnic supremacists (such as is Geraldo Rivera) and Muslims are among those using “culture” as an excuse to try to justify bad behavior.

Why?  Why the Spanish?  Eric speaks English, obviously, and to insist alternate languages on someone else like you suggest is just ordinary rudeness.  Of course, in case you’re saying Geraldo is rude, then, I see why you’d suggest he be moreso there.

glove will work in the veggie fields 16 hours a day..
ok give me a call and let me know when you can start..
i will put 10,000 of you white trash hillbillies to work today..

Enforce our laws and forbid illegal aliens from accessing jobs in the U.S. (penalize those who employ them) and all taxpayer funded services.  If people like Geraldo want to open their homes to illegal aliens, he can go ahead but the U.S. taxpayers should not be required to fund their liabilities.  Enforce our laws, and require proof of citizenship for all licenses in the U.S., for employment, housing.  The Left doesn’t want that to happen because it will effectively stamp-out crime and the Left profits from crime as it does with the ongoing exploitation of this nation’s ethics and laws. There are obvious steps available to rid our nation of illegal aliens – the Left wants the crime and denigration of our nation to continue.

moochel has volunteered to pick our veggies for 16 hours a day…

sweet–
get your group if illiterate half wits–tell them to get off welfare–Joe has a job for them..
they can start today…

Do you just follow me around so you can comment on my comments?  That’s kind of sad.  I find it humorous that you keep calling me the angry one.  Talk about projecting. 

I’ll tell you. mandate E verify and put real penalties for anyone hiring illegal workers (6 months in jail or $100,000) Mandate that citizens show proof for welfare and foodstamps. The problem solves itself overnight. This has workerd anywhere it was tried. They get in their cars and drive home….period. Then those jobs are filled by Americans. It’s just another moronic lie to start mindlessly chanting, ‘how will we deport 20 million people’. Straw man argument. We enforce the law. It’s just that simple. Don’t AMERICANS and those who immigrated legally deserve that?

Latinos are Catholic.  What are Catholics trying to disrupt?  What are Hispanic ethnic supremacists?  Give me some examples of American “culture”.

You sound just like a liberal talking about gun laws!

Having more laws hasn’t fixed the problem, clearly.

Maybe you can convince Warren to pay his taxes. 

Ya, that freakin’ sucks.  But illegal immigration is a small percentage of identity theft.  Mostly they use it to work.  It’s the born and bred rill Americans that use it to destroy your credit and life, for the most part. 

I’l;l tell you again. Stop providing them with free schools, free welfare, free healthcare. Comprende?

OK brain stem

$25 seems a lot for menial labor.  

i am not worried about the Mexicans coming over and working –making sure we have food on the table..
i am worried about congressmen doing insider trading while others go to jail..
i am worried about private jails making millions putting kids in jail for pot..
i am worried about small town america giving bogus loans to bogus companies and funnel ling the money back to poli-tricksters…
i am worried about the billions we give to billion dollar companies to keep war going, to exploit natural resources, to kill education and to divide our country..

here is the skinny…
there are millions of people around the world who will come to America-a. many want to come and study and will pay 20-50k a year and b. may will work hard to give us cheap food and services

private health care has killed small business and makes it impossible to compete..

so—we focus on education and health care..
we train teachers and medical techs as well as engineers–we allows the 100 millions people a year to come here study, work and live..
if we allow Mexicans to come and go freely–they will not live here–but they will work
if we allow people to study here and visit here–it will add billions to our economy..
universal health care will allow small business to thrive and people do not have to work at a chain to pay for health care for their kids..

the solutions are there..
but the few rich and powerful would have to share in the wealth—and they prefer to pay off poli-tricksters instead and keep as much as they can..
and they milk the brains of the fearful and ignorant Conservative –when it is actually against every conservatives claim to believe in~

Mexicans used to live in this country before the Europeans took it…
karma anyone?

Yup I see that hit a nerve.

As long as you’re going to be here spouting negativity and and anger
I will be commenting on your comments. 

And I don’t follow you around-you’re on every thread every day spouting anger and bile. Its hard  NOT to encounter you.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons you seem to have so many “admirers.” Take a look in the mirror-its your obnoxious behavior that makes you a target.

Food for thought.

Please point out one angry thing I’ve said. 

and ps, Just to be clear, you have never once hit a nerve with me.  I actually spend a lot of time laughing at you. So thanks for that!

“mandate E verify and put real penalties for anyone hiring illegal workers (6 months in jail or $100,000)”
This already happens. In fact:

All Things Considered, December 14, 2006 · A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time.

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“Mandate that citizens show proof for welfare and foodstamps.”

Already happens:

By law, illegal immigrants are ineligible for food stamps — unless there is at least one U.S. citizen in their household, which describes all U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.
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“The problem solves itself overnight. This has workerd anywhere it was tried. They get in their cars and drive home….period. Then those jobs are filled by Americans. ”
Actually no, those jobs are not filled by Americans because even working at McDonald’s is preferable to picking fruit:
In Alabama and other parts of the country, farmers must look beyond the nation’s borders for labor because many Americans simply don’t want the backbreaking, low-paying jobs immigrants are willing to take. Politicians who support the law say over time more unemployed Americans will fill these jobs. They insist it’s too early to consider the law a failure, yet numbers from the governor’s office show only nominal interest. “I’ve had people calling me wanting to work,” Smith said. “I haven’t turned any of them down, but they’re not any good. It’s hard work, they just don’t work like the Hispanics with experience.”

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“It’s just another moronic lie to start mindlessly chanting, ‘how will we deport 20 million people’. ”

It’s not a ‘lie’ to ask a question.

————

“We enforce the law. It’s just that simple.”

Hasn’t worked so far.

And I’m telling you that they don’t get any of that.

Yeah seems I hit another nerve. That much is obvious. Hence your need to tell me how much you laugh. Not very good at this are you? Its all that anger clouding your mind.

If you can’t see how nearly your every post is based on the negative then you are beyond help.

For example instead of wailing about hypocrisy you could have approached this issue from what your candidates plan to do to solve the problem and how you are behind them.

But that’s not how your mind works-you sadly are in attack mode 24. I may disagree with nearly 100% of what WCinW2 says but I can tell she’s not angry like you because she can look at an issue she disagrees with and still say something positive.

You’re angry all the time and it shows.

Sad. Very Sad.

They receive free school because you only provide proof of residency not citizenship.  Illegals also get free healthcare. ER services are not denied to anyone.

Without immigrants our food costs would surge upward.  No one else is willing to work the hard work immigrants must do because it’s hard and back breaking work.  They take the jobs because it’s the only work they can find after they arrive and until they can find something better.  You’ll notice there is not much effort being made to round up agricultural those workers because the farmers would have a fit.  If you’re willing to pay a lot more for just about every food product you buy, then fine get the illegal immigrants out, because you won’t find Americans willing to take those jobs and eventually injuring their backs.  If you don’t believe how hard work it is, try it for a day and see if you would take their job.

Not very sympathetic to our nation’s immigrant roots, are you? It was pretty much the same, risking life and limb, going to a place where you are at the bottom, where people call you names and blame you, however irrationally, for the woes of the day. But our country is much tighter on illegal immigrants than you realize, and only those who behave well, who work hard and survive in the wilderness that is illegality, would qualify if Reagan’s IRCA 1986 was brought back.

Warren?

My impression is that they could have any workers they want, not just mexican workers, at 12 per hour. Are Mexican workers better packers?

Reagan? BWAHAHAAHAHHAHAH!!

You Righties…..when will you literally pull your heads out of your collective asses?

“when Reagan came into office we were the largest exporter of manufacturing goods and the largest importer of raw materials on the planet. And, the largest creditor–more people owed us money than anybody else in the world. Now, just 28 years later, we’re the largest importer of finished goods, manufactured goods; the largest exporter of raw materials–which is kind of the definition of a third-world nation — and we’re the most in-debt of any country in the world. This is the absolute consequence of Reaganomics.” – Thom Hartmann

The TRUTH really does blind you TeaBaggers……

Yeah! THEY wouldn’t treat US like WE would treat THEM, and as we all know, we can only be as good as the rest of the world.

Oh, look- it’s Mr. Stalker himself- the only man who gets a manicure for his mouth!

Ladies and Gents, meet the biggest stalker on Mediaite who is packed filled with hate.

Yes, Mark- I did strike a nerve!

He is the #1 stalker here.And a racist ,a homosexual and sexist.

The humane thing to do is allow them to keep coming here illegally, committing a disproportionate amount of crime, milking the welfare state, costing us billions while they suppress wages for the working class and dumb our schools down. Does Geraldo have kids? If he does, I bet they go to private schools and live in an neighborhood that is almost all white. 

I love how people like Gloves here say they love America, but want America to be as bad as the worst countries on the planet.

The Tea Party just doesn’t understand America.

The lover of high taxes, Warren Buffett.  The man who won’t pay his own.  What, a liberal hypocrite!   That’s something you don’t see everyday!

Hey an angry conservative-that’s something we do see everyday!

1) Shut off the jobs (2) shut off all social welfare programs (3) shut off all health care (excluding emergency medical care) (4) Pass legislation making illegal alien trespassing a felony (5) Pass legislation stopping the anchor-baby scam (6) Pass legislation making all federal, state, and local employers use the E-verify system (7) Pass legislation with criminal as well as civil penalties for any employer who knowingly hires illegal aliens (8) Congress must pass legislation that corrects the unbelievably stupid Supreme Court decision allowing geographic birth as the only requirement needed to be a legal citizen. On it’s face, that has got to be one of the most ridiculous decisions of any Court on citizenship.

Because our sham-government has been bought off? Just a thought!

If the obvious solutions do not register with you….why do you bother to keep asking?!

So prior to the invasion of illegals that started in 1980, no one did those jobs? 

The fact is, the laws are not enforced…at least not in any serious way. Every year several of the worst offenders are paraded by the residing administration.. NONE do jail time, and of the 4 or 5 a year that are targeted, the fines average 25k. Not a lot for the multi-million dollar companies that have become wealthy by exploiting the illegal worker. Bottom line, there is no risk and too great a benefit to hiring ‘slave labor’ immigrants. If this was changed, pay and benefits for American workers OF ALL RACES would be elevated. The cost of caring for the poorest portion of countries to our south is breaking our nation. We have sacrificed American’s wages, our medical care, our educational system and our culture in the name compassion. How about a little compassion for the law abiding American?

I’ve grown up in So Cal… Illegal aliens are IN FACT given most entitlements with a wink and a nod. I have grown up with illegal aliens as my neighbors, co-workers, and friends. I have no malice with them and most are good, hard working people. BUT, they have no loyalty to our nation, little respect for our laws, have no desire for citizenship and reject our culture. They want only to work here and compete for American dollars. Most plan to return to the nation of their birth….the same place incidently where much of their money is sent. It’s not about racism to want to put Americans (especially those who immigrated legally) interests above those of other nations….it is just common sense.

The illegals have driven all the wages down where the legals cannot survive by the same as they pay the illegals. The illegals are also subsidized with their housing and health care. The  jobs are also taken up in factories and construction sites where labor used to provide for legal families. Geraldo’s completely wrong in the even the legal Mexicans know the impact of the illegals on their own jobs. The American workers that are paying for them with their wages and jobs are not even considered here. We don’t have a choice or a voice, unless people like Eric take to the air. You are our voice Eric, and we appreciate your efforts and understanding. Send them home is not kicking them out in the streets. This is our home and theirs is south of the border. You will not have to deport them if you dry up the supply wagon. They will return on their own.

It’s going to be hard to get educated people to want to earn that $12. Especially if you have loads of loan debt.

Be practical.

I doubt Bolling and his type would be as outraged if these were primarily Anglos coming in from the south.

Anglos wouldn’t be committing so much crime and dumbing down the schools. 

Gloves, doesn’t live in reality.  

“they take the jobs(“no one else is willing to work”) because it’s the only work they can find and until they can find something better” Yes thats right they will eventually be competing for ” something better” with American citizens,legal alien resdents like My wife from Guadalajare Mexico.
And who’s identity did they steal to get ”something better”?

you would like to think that but you would be wrong.

Precisely.

Your history is faulty. Mexico only owned what is now part of this country for about 30 years, in the early 19th century, up until the U.S.-Mexican war. The only other people here before the Europeans were indigenous natives known as Indians.

Not at all the same thing, valkyrie. The Mexicans and other south-of-the-border people sneaked in without any authorization, whereas legal immigrants made their presence known when they arrived here. I couldn’t care less if they risked life and limb to get here, if they came in illegally they shouldn’t be here.

And why are corporations moving? Is it perhaps, that the administration has imposed a ridiculous regulatory burden? Could it be that we have the highest (or 2nd highest) corp. taxes in the world? Might it be, that unions have destroyed many segments of the American business sector (like the auto industry)? Is there a chance that evironmental extremism is choking industry? I’m sure you simply chalk it up to greed. No liberal understands that a business must actually MAKE money to survive….that’s why so many enter politics.

Wrong again, valk. Immigrants from other countries didn’t have political action committees such as La Raza or demanded that they have government business done and educational material printed in their native languages. Those who immigrated legally have for the most part wanted to assimilate and become Americans, whereas those who are sneaking in illegally for the most part do not.

I watched the first couple of minutes then when Geraldo started filibustering I clicked ahead about a minute and he was still talking so I clicked ahead a little… I clicked about 6 times before I came to almost the end when I finally heard Eric get a word in.   Geraldo has been consistent on this issue and never wants to hear the other side, in part I think because he’s sick of hearing those arguments.  I agree the issue hasn’t moved forward, Bush 43 was the closest but since its been a stalemate.  Eric doesn’t express much of a sense of humor but he’s a serious guy and is good to have serious discussions with.  Overall, good segment.

It started long before 1980, but your point is still well taken. You’ll also find that in states where there are very few Hispanics jobs such as child care services, commercial housekeeping, dishwashing, and construction are still being done by Americans.

It’s rich lefties too.

Simple. You get a national system of E-verify and punish employers who hire them. When they can no longer work here legally they’ll go home.

Are you in Guatemala? No wonder they come.

Rivera’s “philosophy” is whatever is good for Latinos is right. He’s become nothing but another race baiter on this issue. He has no credibility. He’s made a huge fortune he could not have made in Latin America given his “talent” yet seems to think American Exceptionalism is something that accidentally lays around on roads in cooler climates.

 Between Bolling’s wardrobe and Geraldo’s presence, it’s like the ’80s never ended on FOX. You can just almost hear the Robert Palmer music playing in the nearby green room.

you may want to try to read more…
 
1. Mexicans/Indians are indigenous to America–ie here long before whitey..
2. black were brought here long before many of the current White Americans
 
you do know that Mexicans are NOT from a land called Mexico 1000′s of years ago right?
there were no borders ….
 
white euro bandits came here
1. whacked out puritans who hate sex and Christmas—yes-true
2. and whores, thieves and crooks
 
so–if you are white–chances are you kin came here decades after the black folks, centuries after the brown and most likely were crooks or religious nuts..
please–read a book once in a while..
 
and for record..Blacks, Asians and Mexicans/Indians were here longer than most white people but still experience extreme prejudice FROM THE WHITE TRASH ..
go figure~
 

Mark you fall under the profile of a stalker.

Bigot

I’m not a Tea Party member, you sophomoric imbecile, but I can answer that question anyway, since you have an obvious aversion to the logical….enforce our immigration laws.  Illegals have run from every area where the laws are enforced.  Now see? That wasn’t too difficult, was it?

Because the laws are not enforced evenly across the board. Also because many of the “employers” are illegal aliens themselves.  Anything else I can clear up for you, because you OBVIOUSLY don’t know a thing.

Big(idi)ot…

you people have -0- imagination…

And Leftie Obama has given them everything he can….the man who represents POOR Americans….yeah..uh huh.

Do you have any idea who incredibly STUPID you sound?

That’s exactly what they said about the Irish you moron…..oh wait….you’re name is Malone…that’s Irish….maybe they were right!

TeaBagger Clowns!!! HILARIOUS!!!

Go back and study some history you Irish moron!

They said all the same things about the Irish!

I’ve been to Guadalajara quite a few times.

Where is Guadalajare?

What are you talking about when you say he won’t pay his taxes?  He is one of the few 1%er’s who admits he should be paying higher taxes. And a liberal hypocrite?  I don’t think you the foggiest idea of what you’re talking about.  Stop listening FOX and the other far right wing pundits and start educating yourself instead of believing everything they say.  I promise you it will be an awarding experience. 

They had no immigration laws back when most people came to the US

THATS FUNNY THANKS

GUADALAJARA

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE78J05720110920?irpc=932

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he has sent home over 1 million illegal immigrants in 2-1/2 years — on pace to deport more in one term than George W. Bush did in two.
The Obama administration had deported about 1.06 million as of September 12, against 1.57 million in Bush’s two full presidential terms.

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Doesn’t quite fit your FoxNews fantasy, does it?

Aztecs and Maya practiced human sacrifice, nothing “whacked out”about that.

The great drought of 1450-1454 led to the massive sacrifice of Aztec children to there water deities.
Good thing there weren’t any  “whacked out puritans” around to stop them you know,right.

And let us not forget the cannibalism. 

How is that even relevant to what we’re dealing with today? 

What do you do, write your own history books? Blacks were here before whites? That’s odd, considering they were brought here from Africa by whites. And yes, there were “Mexicans” here before the Europeans, so I admit my earlier statement was incorrect, but Mexico didn’t own any part of what is now the United States until they took it from Spain in 1821.

anyone on welfare or unemployment works in the field…problem solved

There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch 

That’s correct Sir! Never trust a man with a mustache!

What makes you say that, it seems that his points of veiw are based on sheer numbers, not color of skin. It’s a shame that you want to race bate this national story.

Were the Irish illegal ? Apples and oranges !!!

Then create a better legal migrant worker program, not endorse illegal immigration.

To phill,
So you despise Ronald Reagan for getting behind IRCA 1986?

That totally does not represent what Geraldo is saying.

Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, those who hire illegal aliens are subject to a large fine and up to five years in prison. Tens of thousands of businesses, including numerous major corporations, have been employing illegal aliens. Isn’t the solution to the problem to put the CEOs of those corporations in jail?

They mostly use it to illegally qualify for social-welfare services!

Except the part about coming here legally? Is that what you meant?

Same as Mexico except, Mexico enforces their immigration laws! It’s a cultural thing with them….go figure….

Americans are the most culture-tolerant people in the world. We just don’t like people who hide behind semantic BS, like the use of the “culture card, or racism” to support an unsupportable argument that justifies criminal trespass as some form of misplaced-heroism. You can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want but, it still a pig.

Your point is?

Hot website. Don’t miss it.

http://www.worldhappyshop.com/

make the illegals dig ditches, and then fill the ditches, with their bodies…. makes a great mulch….

Since God was behind the great migration from Europe to America, and since it was manifest destiny that he take from the Native American, by force, even land ceded by treaty, every square inch that he now possesses, all in violation of existing Native American law, what are we to think of American immigration law before God?

Mr. Geraldo, I personally happen to know one “illegal” who came to this country via a coyote from Mexico City  to  CA approx 12 years ago. During his time in the US he has racked up thousands of dollars in  medical bills from hospitals in both CA and NC (where he is now living) which he has NO intention of paying. He has three children,from two separate relationships, two for which he pays NO child support and sees rarely. Yet manages to send money home to his parents EVERY paycheck!
He works and makes decent money but spends it mainly on himself. In the meantime, the mother of the two children manages to take care of her  children and does a darn good job of taking care of her little  family without his or anyone else’s help. Several collection agency’s are looking for him to pay the hospital bills and he just goes about his merry way. He has a car, small apt, nice clothes, plenty of food to eat, AND his job, which he obtained using “paid for” ID and false name.  Yes…these are America’s poor “displaced citizens”. EXCUSE ME!  I come from a family of immigrants to came here legally from Ireland, had sponsors AND jobs when they arrived and some money in their pocket although not much. Hard work and  perseverance  led the way to their citizenship. They acclimated into the American way of life but still keeping their own traditions but proudly becoming American Citizens first and foremost.
Geraldo is only seeing the issue from his little perch and  I suspect should realize there IS another side to view!

So the Nazis had the right idea, wrong people?

I think that should be: it was manifest destiny that ‘those immigrants’ take from the Native American…” Either way. ;-) Hail Mary….

No such thing as illegal immigration… you can only immigrate LEGALLY.

Anything else is Criminal Invasion, since entering the country illegally constitutes invading, whether it’s by one or hundreds.

Persons who enter the US illegally are Illegal Aliens. And they should be Raw-hided… rounded up and moved out.

laphill, we made it ridiculously hard or impossible for almost the entire Mexican population to obtain legal status even to visit the US. Realistically, our border is closed, relative to such large populations (other than relative cases which make up the bulk of US green cards issued to Hispanics). So illegal entry is the only way for most Mexicans, to, as a practical matter, even visit the US. That is dysfunctional and in no way reflects healthy relations between our countries. We need to quickly legalize weed, even coke, to put the border drug wars to bed forever. And then we should bring out Reagan and Tip’s gem, IRCA 1986 (amnesty). In the money we would save in not having to enforce the drug laws, across the board like 100 billion, we could spend some to rehab people who flip out. The tax revenue from legalizing illegal immigrants together with the tax revenue from legalizing drugs, plus 50 billion in law enforcement savings. Not to mention all those weed related jobs, perhaps a million… The Reagan law had strict employer sanctons with up to 5 years prison time. It was hardly enforced and not popular in the south. But this time, maybe a ten year penalty with teeth would work.

laphill, we made it ridiculously hard or impossible for almost the entire Mexican population to obtain legal status even to visit the US. Realistically, our border is closed, relative to such large populations (other than relative cases which make up the bulk of US green cards issued to Hispanics). So illegal entry is the only way for most Mexicans, to, as a practical matter, even visit the US. That is dysfunctional and in no way reflects healthy relations between our countries. We need to quickly legalize weed, even coke, to put the border drug wars to bed forever. And then we should bring out Reagan and Tip’s gem, IRCA 1986 (amnesty). In the money we would save in not having to enforce the drug laws, across the board like 100 billion, we could spend some to rehab people who flip out. The tax revenue from legalizing illegal immigrants together with the tax revenue from legalizing drugs, plus 50 billion in law enforcement savings. Not to mention all those weed related jobs, perhaps a million… The Reagan law had strict employer sanctons with up to 5 years prison time. It was hardly enforced and not popular in the south. But this time, maybe a ten year penalty with teeth would work.

realjoe:  This is insane.  It’s really easy to try to make some lame “moral” point by redefining lexicon.  Half of my family is from Mexico.  

You act as if the indigenous peoples here are now known as “Mexicans”.  Very wrong.  As you’d learn yourself if you had any experience in the Mexican culture and educational system (I have), Mexicans essentially divide themselves in 3 categories when analyzing their history: 1.) Europeans (principally Spanish, but some Irish and French); 2.) Indigenous; 3.) Mestizo (the mixture of the first two.

About 90% of Mexico’s population is “Mestizo”.  And most of them don’t feel any particular kinship with the other two groups.

RealJoe, you seem like someone with some serious racist tendencies.  Hating whites doesn’t make you less racist.

Dude, one thing that frosts me about Obama supporters is that they slam Bush for Obama’s faults, and credit Obama for Bush’s successes.  The emigration success of the “Obama Administration” is a result of policies and practices put in place by the Bush administration.  In another year or so, we’ll be under Obama’s entire influence.

Truth be told, though, neither Bush nor Obama are particularly effective at addressing this illegal immigration issue.  

And Geraldo Rivera sure as heck doesn’t in ANY WAY represent the vast majority of Hispanics.  This guy doesn’t speak any Spanish, and would die of starvation if he were dropped off in Latin America somewhere.  He’s part of this tiny subset of 2-4th generation of Hispanic immigrants whose fanciful notion of race and culture have caused them to create in their minds some culture that doesn’t exist.  They end up Americans who, like blacks, can’t settle with who their forefathers really are, and what they themselves now are (Americans).  So they have to give themselves an additional name (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans.

For what it’s worth, I’m NOT a Mexican American, nor Irish American, nor French American, nor English American.  I’m an American, with the above in my family background.

Way to be a bigot about entire races.

Are you joking? 12 per hour is better than most college graduates are getting. The real jobs were shipped over seas so that the corporations could make more money at the expense of the American worker. And they succeeded in that.

Buffet is a liberal?

It is possible for Americans to do the jobs that only illegals would do. It’s called chain gangs. Bring them back. Also, with regard to getting rid of 11 million illegals: planes, trains, and automobiles. It’s not just the name of a movie.

No, they’ve been moving overseas since the 80s.  It has nothing to do with corp taxes and regulations. Those corporations do not want the overhead: social security tax, health benefits, vacation pay, sick pay, market salary. Why do they ship jobs to India, China, Taiwan, Korea and other places that do not child labor laws and safetly guidelines?  They’d rather pay off a few corrupt officials to open their factories, instead of employing Americans.  They don’t get a pass for that.  They’d still make money, whether the items are sold locally or exported. 

You talk about environmental extremism, but would you live next to factory that creates Chlorox?  What about fertilizer or plastic?  No, you would not.  You would complain at council meetings to prevent those places being built in your neighborhood.  Hell, I see how it happens when Walmart wants to come in.  It’s the same thing.  You don’t want it in your neighborhood, but you have no problem with it destroying someone elses. 

Look at Mexico:  They have a spike in children born with birth defects to women who live and work near American owned factories.  There’s water and soil pollution.  Do you HONESTLY believe the American public would stand for that here?  Those environmental protection laws exist because WE THE PEOPLE wanted to breath clean air and not have health issues.

Did you ever solve your problem viewing most videos on Mediaite?

I’ve been fighting this on my laptop for weeks.

I have to use Firefox — neither Safari nor IE8 will allow me to display the videos. There’s no response when I click the PLAY arrow.

I emailed Mediaite over a month ago, but never heard back.