A BCP PBS Newshour smackdown!

I was watching the PBS Newshour on Friday and they had some people around a table to discuss the upcoming election and it's issues. Unlike most of the mainstream media even moderator Gwen Ifill had to acknowledge that Illegal Immigration was an issue that came up often.

REALLY? Imagine that! There followed a few comments on the issue that almost made me start throwing stuff at the TV. Where do they get these people.

There was Republican PAT THIELEN who works in the hotel industry (no illegals are hired in that business I'm sure) :
"In Arizona, if you have a person working for you whose Social Security number doesn't match up, you will get a letter. And you have 60 days to get that person legal. And if you can't do it in 60 days, which is almost an impossibility, then you have to let that person go, but they're completely unemployed.

Yes, they are unemployed Ms. Thielen because THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY! This is what is called ENFORCEMENT of our laws. GET IT! If you don't maybe people should stay at one of your hotels and skip out without paying the bill. I mean after all they just came there for a good nights sleep not to hurt anybody. You would not mind if they break the law by not paying you for the room .

Then there was EDUARDO ROMERO of the Non Profit Roundtable in Washington who said this:
"I think we heard this is an economic challenge, but it's also a moral challenge. "

You got that right Eduardo! It's an economic challenge to the middle class U.S. taxpayers who are paying the taxes for school districts and social services that must be provided to the illegals and their children. It's also a moral challenge because you need to make sure people have respect for our laws like immigration.
He goes on:
" I remember when amnesty was not a dirty word. "

Could it be that the American people have a problem that when someone enters our country illegally and violates our laws. Maybe they feel that they should not be rewarded for doing that!

Romero's arguments are so thin that he has to top it off with the "R" word and I don't mean RAZA!:

"When you say that person's illegal, we know, I would assume -- and forgive me, I don't want to assume for everybody -- we're thinking immediately of a Hispanic, of a Latino. We're not thinking about an Eastern European in Boston; we're not thinking of that Eastern European in Chicago, where there's plenty of that activity. But there's not that language being spoken that way. And so I hear that there's an economic reason to make change, but there is a moral reason. This is racism at its root, and the political language just lets it slide. "

Racism my butt! Illegal is illegal! That includes Irish as well as Mexican! What Romero completely ignores is that most of the illegal immigrants coming across our borders are Mexicans. But ANYONE who is here illegally should be deported and those who hire them should be fined also.