Comments about ‘What others say: Federal program harms more than 'dangerous criminal aliens'’

An effort to sway public opinion to just "hard core" illegal aliens? They all broke the law, they are all subject to deportation.

A person that works in the US commits felonies when working, whether prosecuted or not. They all fit the criminal profile, even the adults at 18.5 that refused to go home and right their parents wrong.

Is California bankrupt? Already three communities have officially declared bankruptcy and many more will be declaring bankruptcy. Why? What happened to cause expenditures to exceed revenues? Could it be that those communities provided government services to people who were not citizens, people who were "using" the system to their advantage without taking the responsibility of paying taxes. Could it be that more people were hired by the government in those communities to handle the problems that illegal immigration add to schools, hospitals and housing? Could it be that the wages paid to those extra government workers strained the budgets of those communities until those communities were unable to pay their suppliers?

The L.A. Times took a very simplistic approach to solving the "jail" problem without addressing the real problem - people have crossed the border illegally and California is facing bankruptcy partly because of those people.

I have no problem with the secure communities program affecting ALL illegals. They are illegal, afterall.

Illegal street vending takes jobs from legal residents.

The easy solution is to verify that they are illegal, then put them on an airplane back to their country of origin.