First, Costa Mesa, located in Orange County, California...

Protesters Denounce Costa Mesa for Policies on Migrants
About 65 take part in march organized by OCC student critical of mayor.
By SAM MILLER - The Orange County Register

Quotes:
>>An immigrant-rights [read: invasion] advocate who has called the mayor of Costa Mesa "racist" led a march Saturday against the city's immigration policies.

About 65 people joined Coyotl Tezcalipoca, an Orange Coast College student, at 19th Street and Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, chanting and waving protest signs.<<

Oooh, 65 people.  I'm surprised CNN wasn't doing live coverage.

>>At issue: the Costa Mesa City Council's decision to close its day-labor site last year and its plan to have police enforce federal immigration laws and help deport undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes.<<

If someone wants to have a day-labor site on private property, I think that's fine.  But unless the payroll tax laws are reformed, the sites are problematic.  But what is wrong with deporting invaders who have committed other crimes in addition to breaking immigration laws?

>>One sign read: "Is this town mean-spirited?"<<

You're a meanie if you want to fight crime.  Got that?

>>"We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us," they chanted.<<

Really?  You've been alive that long?  Amazing!  You're been alive since the first half of the 19th century, and you just happened to stroll southward at the wrong time, and whammo!  Suddenly California is part of the U.S. and you were trapped in Mexico.

Let's all support Costa Mesa!  Viva Costa Mesa!

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles...

Clinton Speaks Out on Illegal Workers
Addressing the La Raza event, he calls the debate a divisive distraction.
By Jeffrey L. Rabin - Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Quotes:
>>Former President Clinton told one of the nation's largest Latino civil rights groups Saturday that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is using the immigration issue to divide Congress and the nation.

"It is a way of creating a divided community and distracting people from the real challenges facing the country, whether it is in Iraq and Afghanistan, or homeland security, or how to build a clean energy future, or how to solve the healthcare crisis, or how to create new jobs for America," he said.<<

No, Bill, invasion is a very serious issue, and it is the invaders who are dividing this nation.  If our borders aren't secure, the terrorists in Afghanista and Iraq can easily come here and disrupt our homeland security.  We use more energy (and have slower traffic) because we are crowded with invaders who aren't even supposed to be here.  Our healthcare industry faces many challenges, one of them being that invaders are getting free medical care by clogging our emergency rooms to the point that they are being shut down.  We have very low unemployment, so creating jobs isn't a problem, but some of our wages are being depressed by invaders.

This is why the immigration enforcers actually did some enforcement under your watch.  Was it a mistake on your part that they were tougher than they are now under Bush?

>>Clinton made the remarks, some of his most extensive since the issue of illegal immigration heated up in Washington this year, before several thousand people at the opening session of the four-day National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles.<<

Just imagine a National Council of White People.  It's silly.

>>"It's crazy to think about sending 11 million people home" to their native countries, said the former president, who called the recent demonstrations for immigrant rights "incredibly moving."<<

Yeah, they were moving all right.  Traffic was great when the March of the Criminals was going on!  I wish they's boycott every day!  As for deportation... you're right.  Rounding up the 11-20 million invaders would be very difficult.  However, that is a different issue than: 1. securing our boders; 2. deporting invaders who commit other crimes after breaking immigration laws; 3. enforcing employment laws; 4. moving away from income-tax supported services to a new framework.

>>"At least it says we ought to provide a path to citizenship for these hard-working, law-abiding people," Clinton said.<<
 
People who break immigration laws aren't law abiding, by definition.

>>He suggested that Bush had a different understanding of the immigration issue because of his ties to Texas, where Latinos have been part of the history and culture for many generations.<<
 
This isn't about Latinos.  It isn't about Hispanics.  It isn't about immigrants who legally come here to visit or to become citizens.  It is about people invading our country, getting health care, education, and infrastructure paid for my other people who don't have a choice, and committing serious crimes.  Making this about Latinos, Hispanics, or immigrants is an insult to the citizens who fall into those categories.

>>"America is and always will be a nation of immigrants," he said.<<
 
LEGAL immigrants, not invaders.