Carlos wrote on Jan 17, 2006 7:30 AM:I'd like to thank Mr. Morones and the rest of the gang for their efforts. I had been misled into thinking that legal immigrants and Latinos in general had exactly the same rights as any other citizen. It is this kind of commitment for all things legal and legitimate that make Mr. Morones one of the few civil warriors whose mental state does not get in the way of a good cause. Now, maybe he and his "posse" of immigrant rights activists can march on the Palace of San Lazaro in Mexico and on Los Pinos (Vicente Fox's residence, Ceement Pond and all, as Ellie Mae Clampet would say)and let them know how they, the mainstream of immigrant thought feels about the socioeconomic apartheid that they lord over and which expells hundreds of thousands of their countryment as illegal aliens onto our country. Yes, making Mexico a more equally economical facsimile of the US, now that would be a righteous cause for these blowhard bullies who take advantage of our exceedingly permissive laws and rights to further the cause of a foreign country with which they hold ties and government meetings. This too would appear to be a ploy by Mexico to sway the conscience of our senators and voters. Our laws are not just some ink ornamentation on a sheet of paper. They have been passed because We The People expect ththat our civil servants enforce them. Mr. Morones should have learned that by now.

Frances wrote on Jan 17, 2006 9:32 AM:In light of the recent celebration of the late Martin Luther King, I am astonished at the disgust of SOME, who spit in the face of dream. Perhaps the MARCH is idealistic and will bring little result. However, illegal immigration can not be resolved by one country alone. And to simply blame one country or another is irresponsible and cowardly. Americans and Mexicans deserve a resolution to this Imigration Epidemic.

Robin wrote on Jan 17, 2006 11:44 AM:Very good point in this article. If these groups are so concerned about human right violations they should go to MEXICO and work on Fox and his corrupt government. Why don't they visit Mexican President Fox with their caravan and insist that MEXICO take care of ITS citizens?

Michael wrote on Jan 17, 2006 12:03 PM: Maybe next month, its the bank robbers - they are just trying to get rich and support their families. After all, they killed only a few people. Maybe a march against the robbery laws....

Jean wrote on Jan 17, 2006 12:16 PM:Having divorced a former-illegal alien from Mexico for alcoholism and being an ex-farmworker and native-born Californian and part American Indian, I have only 1 thing to say: DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS AND REVOKE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ILLEGALLY-ACQUIRED, PHONY "U.S. CITIZENSHIP" AND DEPORT THE ILLEGAL-ALIEN ANCHOR BABIES AND THEIR ILLEGAL ALIEN FAMILIES AND NEVER ALLOW THESE BLOOD-SUCKING LEECHES TO ENTER THIS COUNTRY EVER AGAIN AS LONG AS THEY LIVE!!!

Roberto wrote on Jan 17, 2006 12:37 PM:Hahahahahahahahaha, it's gonna be a long fruitless bus ride. Why would any elected official try to protect someone committing a crime? ILLEGAL ALIEN !!!!!

Gary wrote on Jan 17, 2006 2:25 PM:As long as everyone is in a caravan they should be escorted back to the Border by the Border Patrol, and let them demonsttrate in thier own home country of choice. I really think there are enough Illegal Aliens in this country to last us for awhile. Its time to take back control of our borders and control our Country's Destiny.

Tom wrote on Jan 17, 2006 3:14 PM:Frances, your "dream" is America's nightmare. Get on the bus, go to Mexico, and help their government change so Mexicans can realize their dream in Mexico, not here. The times they are changing, again.

John wrote on Jan 17, 2006 3:36 PM:All of you just look at you table and think who do you think is picking up your vegetables and fruits. If you don't want illegal immigrants then why you lazy Amricans do the job. Thats the reason why evry country in Latin America hates you.Because you are lazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

John wrote on Jan 17, 2006 4:54 PM:Why is it that not all messages are posted? Is there someone in this newspaper that is working for only certain people. This is in regards to all those who are outreagesly speaking againts illegal immigrants. Why messages that speak againt those are not posted? Bunch of lazy americannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.........

Amy wrote on Jan 17, 2006 5:27 PM:John wrote on January 17, 2006 3:36 PM:"All of you just look at you table and think who do you think is picking up your vegetables and fruits. If you don't want illegal immigrants then why you lazy Amricans do the job. Thats the reason why evry country in Latin America hates you.Because you are lazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy " ------------------------------------------ I have news for you John, who the heck pick the veggies and fruits in the past? AMERICANS DID Go back to Mexico and improve your stupid country.

Ivana wrote on Jan 17, 2006 5:30 PM:My parents brought me to this country illegaly 15 years ago. I hold a college deegre which I had paid for myself and I am still an illegal alien because law doesn't allow me to change my status. After living here for 15 years I wish I could go back to my country but I don't know what my country is anymore. I understand that this country's citizens need to be protected against terrorism and crime but what about people like me. Have we forgotten what this country stands for?

Gil wrote on Jan 17, 2006 7:14 PM:Controlling illegal immigration is an honorable goal. The USA has a right to protect its borders. It has a right to admit legal entrants. Businesses have an obligation to hire only legal workers. If not, they only encourage the continuing flow of illegal immigrants. Businesses need to stop exploiting individuals by paying them low wages. I think most businesses would prosper if they paid their workers adequate wages and provided reasonable accommodations to their guest workers. Mexico has an obligation to create jobs that provide decent wages to their citizens. They need to discourage the annual flow of immigrants who venture into dangerous deserts to find work in the USA. Employers need to provide benefit to their workers (all legal workers). They need to provide insurance, disability, and retirement benefits to their workers (all legal workers).

shane wrote on Jan 17, 2006 7:22 PM: If i broke into your house, ate your food, raped your wife, stole your money, gave your child an incurable disease, murdered your neighbor and wrecked your car, would it be ok if i was just looking for a better life?

Rae wrote on Jan 17, 2006 9:28 PM:I would strongly suggest that rather than planting crosses for the dead, while they should always be remembered, your time and efforts would be much better spent dedicating your efforts towards educating the hordes that come here ILLEGALLY in how to fill out the appropriate applications to come here LEGALLY and wait their turn in line. It is appalling that these people feel that ILLEGAL ALIENS have more rights than those immigrants who come here legally. ILLEGAL ALIENS SHOULD HAVE ONE RIGHT ONLY: DEPORTATION. Ivana I am sorry that you are caught in the middle, however it is your parents that are to blame. If you don't know "what your country is", then I would suggest that you ask them so that you can get the information necessary to apply for citizenship. Every day that you live and work here you are breaking the law. This country was built on the backs of immigrants, including my own ancestors, who came here legally and worked hard. You had it much easier than my ancestors did. They worked in the factories. Nobody handed them a college education on a platter. To quote Mike Scott, the inscription on the Statue of Liberty reads "I lift my lamp beside the golden door...", it says nothing about criminals sneaking under fences, falsifying documents, or burrowing underground to break into the country and steal the American Dream. John, concerning where my vegetables come from, I grew up in midwestern farm territory and worked my summers bailing hay, so I know what hard work is and how to do it myself. Americans have always done the jobs that needed to be done. We will manage just fine without the ILLEGAL ALIENS who break through our borders without going through health checks and cough on our foods. I saw just the other night on Fox News that there is a major outbreak of Hepatitis A in Los Angeles, due to an ILLEGAL ALIEN working in a restaurant there. I certainly hope that you haven't eaten there recently.

Skip wrote on Jan 17, 2006 9:34 PM:India, and China like Over-Population coming to a town near you. Thousands of Central Americans illegally cross the 600-mile border between Guatemala and Mexico every day on a long and dangerous trek toward the U.S., part of a global mass movement driven by a steadily widening gap between rich and poor countries. The number of international migrants doubled between 1985 and 2005, now stands at 200 million, and is expected to increase, according to the U.N.'s Global Commission on International Migration, The United States is the world's top destination for international migrants, legal and illegal. 85% of the United States Illegal Aliens come from Mexico. You should be afraid of the exploding Over-Population coming to the United States.

Dear 'John" wrote on Jan 17, 2006 9:46 PM:Before you call others lazy, you should look at what they have accomplished in their country, and then compare it to the one you come from. Even with your small minded, and racist point of view, it should be easy to see that millions of people aren't crossing the border to go live illegally in Mexico. Why would they? - not even the natives want to live there, in fact they risk their lives to leave. If you're not happy with where you come from, then work to make it better. Like the citizens of the United States have done. The taxpayers of the U.S. just can't support billions of foreign nationals who are 'too lazy' to fix their own country, so they just cross the border expecting the taxpayers of the U.S. to meet their every outrageous demand, and then 'excuse' them for violating the laws of our country. Grow up little man, and stop listening to those who fill your head with racist nonsense designed to make you as angry and resentful as they are.

Nick wrote on Jan 17, 2006 11:40 PM:My father and I were in the construction business, and making great money to boot. We worked hard every day. Yet, now we couldn't get that kind of work and make decent wage because of you "illegal immigrants" drive down wages by accepting work to the lowest common denominator. There is nothing special about you for "working hard". What is special about you is that you'll accept any work for low wages. There is no dignity in stupidity. Working hard at stealing jobs and breaking US laws does not earn you the right to citizenship, voting rights, and public benefits in the USA. If you want to change your lot in life, go back to Mexico and get rid of your corrupt politicians sitting in the casa on the hill.

CSB wrote on Jan 18, 2006 3:23 AM:Illegal means just that,NO! rights! Jail & Deportation !!!

Frances wrote on Jan 18, 2006 11:29 AM:WOW! After reading all these blatantly hateful comments it saddens me to know that so many people will be disappointed, one way or another, because there will NEVER be an end to illegal immigration. If Mexico and the USA do not reach a resolution to the illegal immigration problem, your anger and frustration will be infinite. I can understand your resentment, after all illegal Mexicans are becoming more and more successful than their counterparts. Illegal Mexicans buy homes, own businesses, receive a higher education, pay taxes, etcetera, etcetera. They do all this and more, retaining a strong unfaltering love for Mexico, regardless of that countries tribulations. I know it is frustrating and you feel a sense of relief expressing yourself. It is good to have an outlet, but your comments will not stop illegal immigration until there is a resolution by both countries. For the record, Mexicans have protested several times in Mexico for a resolution to the problem. Also, by the year 2020 Mexicans will be 34% of San Diego's population, not including the millions of visitors from Tijuana who come to this country everyday to buy goods. The San Diego - Tijuana region is the third largest latino market in the USA and it will continue to grow legally or illegally.

Skip wrote on Jan 18, 2006 2:36 PM:When people enter this nation illegally they are in violation of United States’ law upon crossing the imaginary line between Mexico and Canada. All of their acts are illegal because they are here under illegal circumstances. The American worker will speak loudly during the electoral cycle. Jobs and the middle class in this country are under assault. Being able to have a job paying a living wage and being able to afford a home is the basis for homeland security. We in this nation are in a fight for our own homeland security. Must we all become minutemen again for our own protection?

Gary wrote on Jan 18, 2006 4:30 PM:Why do so many people come? Some people suggest that the flow is inevitable because so many people are poor. But around 4.5 billion people in the world are more impoverished than the average citizen of Mexico, and nearly all of them choose not to break our immigration laws. A small fraction of 1% of them are enticed to come to the U.S. illegally because of the letters and news stories they get back home about how the U.S. federal government refuses to enforce its immigration laws most of the time.

Getum wrote on Jan 18, 2006 5:41 PM:Where do we deport the minutemen when we get tired of them? Who do we call to turn in senile armed idiots?

Gino wrote on Jan 18, 2006 8:43 PM:The US goverment will do nothing untill American blood is spilled. Sad state of affairs.

Raymond wrote on Jan 19, 2006 7:37 AM:Getum - The Minutemen go away when the millions of illegals go home. Simple as that. If you have a problem with patriotic Americans working to secure our borders because the federal government has failed to do so, then why don't you come up with a solution to return the illegals to their home countries (where they can apply to come here like all legal immigrants do). Then the Minutemen will have nothing to do. Of course, if you are for open borders, you wouldn't really want that, would you?

Raymond wrote on Jan 19, 2006 7:42 AM:If you follow the news today (Thurs. Jan. 19), you'll hear that a new audio tape of Bin Laden has surfaced, promising new attacks inside the U.S. Now I don't believe in freaking out every time there's another tape from al Qaeda (after all, their point is to terrorize), but if and when such an attack occurs, you can bet that the al Qaeda terrorists entered the country over the U.S.-Mexican border (the same border Congress wants to start a fence at, and the same one monitored by the Minutemen). It's shameful after 9/11 that our borders are so open, and we have millions (likely 15m+) of foreign nationals in our country illegally. Until that border is truly secure and the illegals have been returned to their home countries, we will remain very vulnerable to terrorist attack.

bryan wrote on Jan 19, 2006 8:02 AM:Analysis of the latest Census data indicates that California's illegal immigrant population is costing the state's taxpayers more than $10.5 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated tax contributions of illegal immigrant workers are subtracted, net outlays still amount to nearly $9 billion per year. The annual fiscal burden from those three areas of state expenditures amounts to about $1,183 per household headed by a native-born resident.

Frances wrote on Jan 19, 2006 10:48 AM:In response to Gary's comment, about "why do so many people come?" it is because they know that there will be work for them SOMEWHERE. As long as you can cross the border it is like a guaranteed job. Another reason people come here is because it is very dangerous to live in their countries, so they are also fleeing violence and instability. A good movie to watch is Voces Innocentes, it is about El Salvador in the 1980's. And to Gino, your are right, especially since just a couple of weeks ago someone trying to cross the border was killed by an agent. Potential crossers and coyotes are going to feel the need to protect themselves and it will be a mess.

Tony wrote on Jan 19, 2006 10:55 AM:I am a Hispanic and appalled by our countries failure to enforce immigration laws, but I saw this coming long ago with everyone letting it happen. And I am tired of these polls that clump all Latino voters, as if we all are in agreement with illegals overrunning our borders instead of waiting there turn like every body else. Polls show that as not true when you separate the participants of these polls between illegal, recent, second and third generation immigrants. We have created a social problem with recent Mexican and Central American immigrants, were we have many sons and daughters of Illegals instead of legal immigrants creating an environment that does not see it as wrong, after all there parents were illegal. The border must be enforced and the now old theory of the melting pot must be brought back or we stand to loose what America once stood for.

Roberto wrote on Jan 19, 2006 7:25 PM:John, when I grew up here in Carlsbad, we kids did those jobs, picking flowers, tomatoes and strawberries. Also, fast food , car wash and gas stations. We earned money while going to school. Now these GD illegal aliens have taken those jobs along with commiting crime and filthing our streams and public bathrooms. Let's face it, we could easily invent a machine to do the picking as they did for corn and soy beans. We simply have too many un Americans which choose to back criminals, like you John. Enabler.

Don wrote on Jan 25, 2006 5:51 PM:Illegally here, those that show up for this march should immediately be deported.

Deport Illegals Now wrote on Jan 28, 2006 7:56 PM:Wake up patriots! We must deport all illegal aliens and anchor babies now! America needs to learn from history. You can't let a huge influx of lesser cultures into more civilized societies and expect to survive. There will always be an "us vs. them" mentality, and you may soon be a minority! Be vigilant, outspoken, and intolerant of this illegal invasion of our nation, before it's too late!

MURILLO wrote on Feb 1, 2006 6:52 AM:I AM SO TIRED OF HEARING THAT WE ARE HERE TO TAKE AND NOT GIVE BACK. TELL ME WHO WORKS THE HARDEST JOBS? WHO BUILDS YOUR STREETS? WHO BUILDS THE BUILDINGS USING THEIR BACKS AND HANDS TO MAKE YOUR CITIES AND TOWNS? MY PEOPLE!! THEY GET PAID WHATEVER THE BOSS THINKS AND TO BOOT WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT ALL THE MONEY THAT IS TAKEN OUT OF EACH AND EVERY PAY CHECK GOES IF THAT ILLIGAL IS USING FAKE PAPERS. THE BOSS KNOWS IT GOES TO THE STATE AND THAT IS WHERE IT STAYS AND SO DONT TELL ME THAT MY PEOPLE ONLY TAKE BECAUSE I THINK IT GOES BOTH WAYS!!!!

latina mami forever.... wrote on Feb 1, 2006 9:35 AM:As far as I know the BORDER CROSSED US WE DID NOT CROSS THE BORDER-THIEVES STEAL OUR LAND AND NOW WANT TO ACT AS IF THEY OWN IT????

Cassandra B wrote on Feb 2, 2006 9:28 AM:i dont think it right and it needs to come to an end. We have to follow the law and so do the immigrants of this country they arnt any more special than you or I.

Betty wrote on Feb 2, 2006 5:15 PM:I am a US citizen. I believe that there should be an equal opportunity for everyone. There should be certain qualifications for immigrants/undocumented immigrants to meet so they could become citizens. Something should be done to help people in my situation. I am Married to an undocumented immigrant. You can say I'm wrong. But when you love someone... you just love them regardless.

Luz wrote on Mar 10, 2006 2:17 PM:Wake up Americans? You should appreciate all the contributions that immigrants and even illegal immigrants are bringing to this country. I hate minutmen so bad. Are't they humans too? why they treat illegal immigrants that bad? Whithout immigrants, this country would not be as rich as how it is now. Think!!!

Jan wrote on Mar 27, 2006 8:39 PM:I agree that the efforts should be made by citizens of Mexico to reform their own country. They love Mexico and if they banded together they can effect a change. The multitudes coming to America will ultimately create a totally different country than we have now to the detriment of all. Then many immigrants(read Americans') will leave to go to the next country - Australia, New Zealand? We(USA) can help improve other countries if the citizens ask. I say we who are against illegal immigration need to start protesting and marching to show our support for obeying the laws protecting the borders.

FOR AMY wrote on Mar 28, 2006 5:50 PM: Amy Mexico is stupid? Amy your name should be racist American. Americans like you make me laugh. First of all you have the nerve to criticize this country with out knowing it. I believe YOU need to pick up a book and get an education. YES AMY EDUCATION. How did you know this person was Mexican? Now I am not calling Americans lazy because I too am American whether you like it or not and I work hard to get an education but yes its true some of Americans are lazy and therefore undocumented people do the work for low pay. Amy if you were from one of these countries then maybe you would think different but you are not you is a selfish person who needs to get better education about the real world. It’s easy open a book and learns about Mexico.

to JEAN wrote on Mar 28, 2006 5:58 PM:To JEAN “ DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS AND REVOKE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ILLEGALLY-ACQUIRED, PHONY "U.S. CITIZENSHIP" AND DEPORT THE ILLEGAL-ALIEN ANCHOR BABIES AND THEIR ILLEGAL ALIEN FAMILIES AND NEVER ALLOW THESE BLOOD-SUCKING LEECHES TO ENTER THIS COUNTRY EVER AGAIN AS LONG AS THEY LIVE!!!” I really am sad about your situation but guess what? GET OVER IT. Stop being a racist person. Because one Hispanic did this to you is not a good enough reason to discriminate. How about you to get an education instead of informing us about your stupid life. Get a book .its easy just opens it and read about why immigrants come to America. Did you once forget that your ancestors migrated????? Think!!! Jean for now learn and then get to me when you are at my knowledge level. Sincerely……a proud American!!!