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If you mean that people can just freely walk into our borders as if they were crossing the street being legalized, again Yes, that is not acceptable.

I can see from where I now eat my lunches a glaring hole in the skyline of Lower Manhattan. I can see from my bedroom, and my living room that same missing building space. Our immigration services failed us then and if our borders are porous as they are now they are still failing us now.

I've spent a good amount of time reading about the immigrants who came via Ellis Island, while my parents did not go come through there, I am still fascinated by the process that methodology for processing immigrants coming into the US. Illness and disease was quite common, so if you so much as coughed you could easily be sent back on another boat.

Whooping cough and tuberculosis is on the rise in NYC supposedly becuase of illegal immigration. Xenophobia? Perhaps, but I don't like getting stuck with that TB test and having to come back to the doctor's office to have them look at it and say there's nothing there. Great, I just wasted my time taking off from work etc. That is a direct annoyance and an inconvenience to me.

I am all for due process, you want to come here, then come here under the legal methods. My mother as soon as she was naturalized took every opporutnity to vote for changes in immigration laws as did a number of her friends and collegues. That's working the existing system as it should be done. It may take years but that's what it takes. It should not be done with blatant disregard to laws and legal processes. If the Spanish voting block voted to have the laws changed then so be it.

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