Memo to today's immigration protesters

Gathering by the thousands on a Communist holiday to wave flags from various other countries and chant "Si, se puede" en masse isn't really going to garner you any sympathy from the average American, whether citizen or legal resident.

This goes double when some of you are bold enough to appear on news cameras and identify yourself as being here unlawfully while giving your real name in order to demand "rights" that you simply don't possess.

In other related news, a Pinal County, Arizona sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded last night by some otherwise law-abiding people who just want to come here to have a better life "a group of suspected illegal immigrants who apparently had been hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in the Arizona desert".

Arizona didn't pass their new law with the intent to discriminate against and harass law-abiding minorities.  The state enacted the bill because it is drowning in undocumented people (upwards of 500,000 in a state with a legal population of 4.5 million) who drive down wages, disproportionately drain state resources and, unfortunately, significantly contribute to the crime rate, despite assertions to the contrary.

The Federal government has completely abandoned one of its few clearly delineated responsibilities, all while dabbling in such unconstitutional topics as controlling the amount of salt in the diets of a free citizenry.  Therefore, it falls to the individual states to pick up the slack.