And try to name one area of the country where the overall tax burden is higher, or try to name one Democrat politician besides Tom Suozzi, Brian Higgins and Cindy Locklear that have actually done anything of any substance.

You can’t because there aren’t any.

Thanks for posting the articles though.

“Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, who entered the United States through Tijuana, Mexico, in 2001, and later pleaded guilty to helping raise money for Hezbollah”

“helping raise money for Hezbollah” - not exactly Osama Bin Laden now is it?

Report - Iraqi Terrorists Caught Along Mexico Border
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2007/08/24/report-iraqi-terrorists-caught-along-mexico-border/

Iraqi Terrorists Caught Along Mexico Border
The confirmation comes from National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who talked about the situation in an interview with the El Paso Times recently.

“Coming up through the Mexican border is a path,” McConnell said. “Now, are they doing it in great numbers? No, because we’re finding them and we’re identifying them and we’ve got watch lists and we’re keeping them at bay.”

But, he said, “There are numerous situations where people are alive today because we caught them (terrorists).”

Intelligence officials say the numbers and details of such situations are classified, but McConnell pointed as an example to Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, who entered the United States through Tijuana, Mexico, in 2001, and later pleaded guilty to helping raise money for Hezbollah, which has been designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.

McConnell’s office did reveal some numbers, during fiscal 2006, there were 14 Iraqi nationals caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally, while so far in 2007, that number is 16.

“Now some we caught, some we didn’t,” McConnell told the newspaper. “The ones that get in – what are they going to do? They’re going to write home. So it’s not rocket science; word will move around.”

Also revealed was that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted 60 Iraqis crossing the nation’s southwestern border in 2006 who were seeking asylum in the U.S., while that number so far in 2007 is 178.
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=4541

I lived in the desert southwest for 8 years, I have seen and felt the effect of how they impact the economy.

#1 they work for less wages than citizens do because they are illegal.
#2 the construction industry was taken over by them and put many, many of us out of work.
#3 What needs to be done on a nation wide level is exactly what is going on in Arizona and Oklahoma. Make it illegal to hire illegals, go after the employers. Since those bills were passed, thousands of illegals have left the area. Maybe they are coming here to take your job.

Have no fear Mike, the federal government has no desire to do anything about the illegals here in the country. All the presidential candidates are all for amnesty and open borders.

It doesn’t matter that over 75% of the American people are against it, they will do it anyway.

Oh, BTW, hundreds of Muslim extremists have been caught coming across the Mexican border. All they have done here is give them the area and the time for when they can enter.

The plans in D.C. is well under way to create the open market between Mexico and Canada. The roads are already being built in Texas for the super highway and the plan to remove the borders completely is under way.

Don’t believe me? Look it up and see what D.C. is doing to us.

Why can’t you understand that those people want to work and support their families just like the rest of us?