Read the following blog, including comments.  Your mission is to continue the argument with a blog post of your own.  The post does not have to answer the original question.  You may use a topic brought up in the comments as well.  Refer to the following while writing your post: 

- John's Blog (Immigration's Affect on the US Economy)

- My Delicious site (Contains multiple links to websites regarding mexican immigration).

- Listen to the following debate on iTunes held by students at Wake Forest University (Immigration: Recasting the Debate - Podcast). 

- This article found on EBSCO (An interesting article regarding the present immigration situation and Obama's plan for immigration).

- Students also may choose to respond to one of the quotes from the novel (below).  

"For a long moment, they stood there, examining each other, unwitting perpetrator and unwitting victim" (Boyle 8).

- Shows how hesitant Delaney was after hitting Cándido.  Obviously, Cándido was shocked that he was hit, but just as shocked and taken aback was Delaney, who didn't know whether to rush the man to the hospital or to listen to the immigrant and leave him near death on the side of the road.

"The coyotes keep coming, breeding up to fill in the gaps, moving in where the living is easy. They are cunning, versatile, hungry and unstoppable" (Boyle 214).

- This is Delaney's take on immigration.  Handling his guilt with anger at immigrants, he compares them to animals and then calls them an unstoppable force.

"…Well did you ever stop to think what happens when they don’t get that half-day job spreading manure or stripping shingles off a roof? Where do you think they sleep? What do you think they eat? What would you do in their place?” (Boyle 146).

- Once again, displays Delaney's nativism.  He is clearly trying to rally other people to his cause because if others agree that the immigrants should have been there, he thinks that will exonerate himself of the inner guilt he feels.

"They were joggers, nonsmokers, social drinkers, and if not full-blown vegetarians, people who were conscious of their intake of animal fats. Their memberships included the Sierra Club, Save the Children, the National Wildlife Federation and the Democratic Party. They preferred the contemporary look to Early American or kitsch. In religious matters, they were agnostic" (Boyle 34).

- This quote acts in Delaney and Kyra's defense.  It shows just how "good" these people are.  Given this quote, one could ask, "How could such good, community-minded people possibly be related to such a heinous crime?"