text: why don't the mexican people stand there ground and try to change there laws? the mexican's instead of runing to america and breaking our law's. this is not racsit just realist. after 9&#92;11 things changed it is not that the american's to not like our friends to the south of us it is if we need the labor or we need to rasie the national quota then this country should have the say. if you come here illegal then you broke the law and as a crime the punishment is go home.  should american vote to say on how our borders are protected. it is not just the hard working mexican comming across the border's.  we need some immigrants and america makes over 1 million a yr. just from mexico plus other country's  when if enough. but if you get caught breaking the law you should be punished for the crime breaking into a country is the same as breaking into a car,house and you do the punishment that comes with the crime.we need to protect this great country and keep it great. we need to biuld up at the border keep the bad guy's out.  america's # 1 let's keep it that way portblock -i agree with you.  tony- that was then, this is now. we have laws for a reason and if an american citizen broke the law we would have to serve time and pay a fine. if we went into another country and attempted to do what the illegal immigrants from mexico do here, we would be extradited, and fast!!  our ancestors worked hard for this country, to make it what it is. why should we tote the load for a bunch of criminals? they are criminals. they live their whole lives breaking the law of legal entry by their illegal entry.  osbaldo hem-america first said "mexican", that is what they are. the issue is illegal mexicans, it is all over the news, don't twist the question.  chris- i am 1/2 cherokee and proud of it. my ancestors came across the bering straits from asia to north america when there was ice connecting the two continents.(no we are not of spanish descent, as some believe) our people settled in the northern parts of n. america and then some  migrated to what is now known as the southeastern part of the usa. we were treated bad by the europeans who took over our lands. that was history, chris, today is today. we got over it. life goes on. it is a different place.   we now have laws that all people must abide by. that includes the citizens of the usa, the native americans on the reservations and immigrants who come here legally. illegal immigrants are lawbreakers from the git-go. they should be arrested and deported and not allowed back in our country unless they do it the legal way and then they should be made to wait for a few years for punishment.  in that time they should be working to improve their life in their own homeland instead of trying to grab the way of life the american citizens worked and died for. they should work with their own leaders, voice their dissent, complain about their social services, demand better living conditions. by staying there, and working for a better way of life they will enjoy the fruits of their labor, if not their own generations, they will improve it for their future generations, like our forefathers did. then they can be proud to be citizens of the beautiful country of mexico.  p.s.- chris,  yes some people are entitled to live and work in the usa, the united states citizens!! we have all rights and entitlement. illegal immigrants have "no rights no entitlement"  whatsoever.