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# Some tough talk on immigration
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/some-tough-talk-on-immigration/
- Published: 2006-01-21T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:04:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Downtown, #archive-import

This past week, Q-line asked: What’s your take on the illegal immigration situation in Southern California? How should the government handle it?

Here are your responses: ✆ “I think that all the illegal aliens should be shipped back from where they came. The city of Santa Monica is doing too much good for them. 11th and Colorado have so many of them defecating on the streets. The National Guard should patrol the border, shoot anyone who doesn’t want to stay out because we cannot have illegal immigration here.” ✆ “The answer is quite simple as to how the government should handle the illegal immigrant situation. Just send them back. Check their credentials. If they do not have any, send them back. The citizens are scrutinized at the airports, everywhere. We are padded down and we are Americans. Send them back from where they came.” ✆ “Years ago, when I redid my house, there were all these people there and I hired them. They did an excellent job. My question is how come there aren’t blond, blue-eyed Americans doing this work. I think we should leave it alone.” ✆ “Immigrants are individuals without a country. They are usually dissatisfied with the country from where they came and are not wanted in the country of their choice — the United States. There are many pitfalls to the immigrant situation beyond the obvious costs. Most are not formally educated and can only function as a subculture. They are not quite accepted and they are only measure by the amount of sweat that drips from their body. Immigrants have no understanding of the Constitution of the United States and the protections contained therein. They find themselves at the mercy of overworked public defenders and stand before an opinionated judiciary system which only knows one word of Spanish — adios. The quality of the immigrant is not at issue, it is the quantity of them. There are too many immigrants for the immigrants own good...” ✆ “There are way too many illegal aliens in this country. We need to do something about it, such as making it a felony to hire them. They keep bringing down the wages and taking jobs that could go to American citizens or people who are legally here instead of illegals. That is one thing, then they clog the hospitals and don’t pay taxes, they use up all of our hospital funding and then they have babies. We don’t need them. We need to change the law that makes an illegal alien born in this country not a citizen and let them go back to Mexico. They’re Mexico’s problem, they shouldn’t be our problem. They need to build that big wall around the border and keep them out. They have to put the army down there and shoot a few people to keep them from coming in. They are invading our country, we can’t let them do it. We have to do it because Mexico won’t do it. They aid their people to come over here, we have to stop them. It’s our country, not theirs. If Mexico doesn’t like it we should tell them to go to hell. We do not need illegal aliens. Round them up and send them back.” ✆ “Illegal immigration is just that — illegal. It should never have been allowed. And now in this very dangerous and threatening time our borders need to be secured in their entirety. I think the U.S. Army, or at least the National Guard, needs to be on continuous patrol against human and drug smugglers and the individual illegals. Our safety and survival as a nation is in jeopardy.” ✆ “Which government — Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, the Feds, NAFTA, the U.N., Mexico? The illegal immigrant situation will never be addressed and here’s why. The right-wing big-business wants millions more illegals to drive all wages down further. The left-wing, suicidal, can’t-we-all-just-get-along, touchy-feely crowd thinks its some kind of human rights issue. Both the right-and left-wing leaders want millions more voters even more ignorant and stupid than those we already have. But solutions, you want solutions? Here are just a few: Of course, they will be ignored as politically incorrect. Build and continue building that fence along the border, beef up the border control and immigration service, round up and ship back all the illegals already here. If these things are not done California and Santa Monica will be even more of a cesspool approaching the likes of Mexico and Mexico City.” ✆ “If you believe in a plantation economy, do nothing. If you want to keep unskilled labor costs low, do nothing. But if you want to solve the education crisis, the medical crisis, the low-income housing crisis, get the illegal aliens out of California. Unfortunately, it will never happen.” ✆ “I think the illegal immigrant situation in Southern California has become completely out of control. Our health care, our schools and jobs have to go to people who are here legally by birth with legal parents have deteriorated. I think the government should heavily fine businesses, small and large, when employing illegal immigrants. Public schools should not be allowed to educate illegal children and children who are born in the United States who have parents who have come here illegally, they should not be allowed to become automatic citizens. The government must close down and arrest people in downtown LA, etc., who make false ID cards, etc. They’re right on the street. You can go down there and they’re not very shy about asking you if you need a false ID.” ✆ “There are 36 million people in this state and over 10 percent are illegal. The government needs a tamper-proof social security card, fines for businesses that hire illegals and a serious deportation system. The quality of our life is fast disappearing with the low educated from Mexico. Let’s face it, their system of government is very socialistic. The special interest in our country — medical, education, housing — make billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to support illegals. The pressure of progressives to demonize our system of government for not supporting these people will continue to destroy this country.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 21, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)