Illegal Immigrants and Other Wanted Felons

I posted this on www.theurbangrindblog.com as a comment, but after I wrote it, I realized this problem has been bothering me for a long time, so I'm reposting it here, with some editing for typos and added thoughts.

*Warning-Rant*

The illegal immigration problem here in California is spiraling out of control. At this time, I’m trying to buy a house here in South OC, California. It is an already difficult process which is made exponentially more complicated and expensive by the illegal immigrant problem. Sadly, my search has boiled down to hunting for “protected” locations where the property value is so high, or the location so exclusive, that the illegal immigrants can’t move in and ruin the appreciation potential of my property. I usually don’t get angry, but it really pisses me off that these criminals (that’s what all illegal immigrants are, by definition) have to come here and turned many of the once classy and safe downtowns in orange country into slums. You have to pay 650,000 just to get a decent condo in South OC, and after putting so much in your property, you have to worry about a group of disgusting (in their character), disrespectful (of our laws), and often freeloading (off of welfare) criminals from over the border ruining the neighborhood. No only do I not have any sympathy for illegals, I have no sympathy for anyone who criminally hires, harbors, rents an apartment, or gives a bank account to an illegal. The INS needs to get on the ball and start cracking down on everyone suspected to be an illegal, and Americans need to get on the ball and start calling the INS, and start writing your representatives. When you see a group of Spanish speaking only people milling around outside of Home Depot waiting for a sleazy contractor to pick them up, don't just complain about what this country has become, call the INS. That's what they are there for. They may not do something initially, but if enough people complain something will happen. The recent minutemen project has shown that more than police, or even border patrol, illegal immigrants are afraid of angry citizens. It's because they know the people who they are reallying giving the middle finger of disrespect is not the American government, but the American taxpaying public. If you are a citizen or a legal immigrant, they are thumbing their nose at you! If illegal immigrants believe that everyone around them is hostile, and just waiting to see them arrested for the crime they commited, America will not seem like such a good country for them, and they will go home. My theory is if illegals knew that when they walked into Bank of America and tried to get an account with a Mexican consular card, they would be arrested, they would not go to the bank. If they knew that when they took the bus, they would have to show CA id, they would not take the bus. If they knew that to get an apartment for rent, they needed a social security card, they would not rent an apartment. And, most importantly, if they knew that from the second they crossed the border, every citizen from here to Canada would be on their cell to the INS and Border Patrol, reporting their illegal entrance, they wouldn't come here at all.

Ahh, much better.

I would like to finance a tv ad campaign, with captions as such:

“Would you work with a business that hired a wanted felon? Many illegals have come back over the border again and again, even after being deported. Thats a felony. If we would never tolerate a business that employs wanted felons, why do we tolerate them hiring illegal immigrants?”

and another:

“Narrator: How would you greet a neighbor who decided break and enter your house without your permission? (Show a homeowner at night pulling a gun on someone sneaking in his kitchen window. The homeowner then yells “Don’t move” and his wife picks up the phone to call the police). Narrator: America is our home, so why do we do nothing to protect it? If you suspect someone is an illegal immigrant, call the INS at (insert number here).”

The last line on the second ad could be replaced by a myriad of other things, such as vote for so-and-so, or go to www.capsweb.org to take action….