[Hoot Gibson]

Hoot, you and TRT have had your backs to the wall for years on here trying to defend yourselves on the issue of immigration. There's the typical "I work with" and "I know" and "I'm friends with" but none of that matters. You need to be for equal rights for everybody - regardless of their documented status and either you're for them, or you're not. Plain and simple. Labeling them all criminals is a big stretch. Most of them just haven't had what you and I have here in America and are looking to get that, that is all.

Americans are under no moral, ethical, or legal obligation to afford equal rights to criminal illegal aliens. They need to work hard to improve their situation in their home countries. If they want to move to OUR nation, then they need to mold themselves into desirable immigration candidates and immigrate to this country legally. The system works but not all people in this world deserve to be American citizens. Breaking our immigration laws to enter this country should be an automatic disqualifier for illegal aliens to ever be considered for legal residency.

It is no stretch to label those who willingly and knowingly enter this country by breaking our immigration laws, and in many cases obtain forged documents to remain in this country, as criminals. Those who criminally violate our laws are, by definition, criminals. Those who fail to appear before judges for lawful immigration hearings are criminal fugitives from justice. That is not an opinion, those are the facts.

Supporting illegal immigration makes you an accomplice, IMO.