Illigal immigration and border control

yes ok i am bias on this subject I know plenty of illegal immigrants and personally hate immigration (INS)- or maybe that makes me simply more informed not bias- but anyway- this makes me almost laugh and almost cry at the stance some of the presidential candidates take on this issue.

My favorite is in a new york times "article" http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/immigration/index.html. Mitt Romney has a brilliant idea- lets have all immigrants register to see who should be allowed to get a work permit and who should get deported. yes that a nice idea then we can know who is in the country and eliminate illegal working condition-

WHAT DO YOU THINK IMMIGRATION (INS) HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR THE PAST SEVERA DECADES? invite illegal immigrants for tea?

Illegal immigrants are here because they figured out how to play the system and not get caught- why would they voluntarily come to sign up when there is a possibility of deportation?

Tom Tancredo also has a brilliant idea- lets follow the law- its clear and simple- deport all illegal immigrants and not offer them jobs- your such a visionary tom-

ya thanks for that but see thats the status quo- if an illegal immigrant gets caught they get sent home and its already illegal to hire illegal immigrants

and I am once again disapointed with Giuliani- who wants a fence around our southern border and strict policies on illegal immigration- honestly honey what is the point of your existence? if you are not even closely representing NYC then what are you running on? Its in NYC that children - regardless of legal status get free education and are allowed to go to college- where hospitals must admit everyone if in critical condition and its the city is on economic dependance on illegal emigrant work. i would think he would know that the illegal immigration issue is a bit more complicated.

Change the way we vote.

After more then 200 years of electing our president through the electrol college officials are now reconsidering the practice. With small states who have originally best benefitted from the system reconsidering. Maryland abolished the electrol college with in its state said the nyt- although im not entirly sure what that means. The electoral collage is a national issue more then a state issue. The electrol college makes the election foucus on about a quater of the nations states said George C. Edwards III, a professor of political science at Texas A&M University. In the Editorial section of the LA times Dan Wentzel gives his rather crude opinion of the electoral college as something to be rid off to put nicely as something unfair and undemocratic. In the Editorial pages of The International Herald Tribune, Charles Frederickson, cried that in order for the US to once again represent "freedom, liberty and justice for one and all" the electoral college must be done away with. This man wrote this from Bangkok. Appareantly theUS is not the only one thinking of this issue. The consenses, in the print media at least is that the electoral cocllege should be changed. When I typed in the phrase "electoral college inro LexisNexis the articles seemed to mostlt say the same thing. Although I do see the challenge do democracy in an elloctral college system- I feel the system should not be dissmissed so easily. The system afterall is in our constitution and has been in place from the begining of US history. Is there a reson why it worked so long? Or is it only becauseit was in the constituion that we followed it so long? The main reason it was in the constitution is so that the small states would agree to form one nation (the US). At the time state loyalties were much stronger then country loyalties hardly anyone identified with the country. All the states wanted equal representation. Has the political climate sufficiantly changed that now individual people want equal representation. Is thre other reason why this system worked so long? Have we not had national pride for quite some time? What is with all the murmur now? Wouldn't it be stupid to abruptly change our political system ina political time as delicate as it currently is?