NATCHEZ &8212; Immigration is a process, Natchez immigrants say, and it should be abided by.

Citizens living in the United States that have gone through the process of becoming a U.S. citizen, feel one aspect creating the problem needs to be enforced.

&8220;I believe anyone should come here legally, and if they don&8217;t, they shouldn&8217;t be here,&8221; said Roy Winkworth, a U.S. citizen since 1981 but a native of Canada. &8220;I think illegal immigrants should be deported not because they&8217;re criminals but because they are here illegally. Other countries don&8217;t put up with it. Why should we?&8221;

Jean Claude Coullerez, a native of France who is now a U.S. citizen and Natchez resident, said he feels other problems will arise from the immigration situation if not corrected.

&8220;I&8217;m glad to be born French. I would have been glad to have been born German, but I wasn&8217;t,&8221; Coullerez said. &8220;I feel it&8217;s wrong if you don&8217;t know your roots.

&8220;It was a dream for me to get American citizenship. As a Canadian I didn&8217;t feel a need, but with border problems I decided to get mine,&8221; Coullerez said. &8220;I cannot stand something illegal. Some do it without worry, cutting the line, and that&8217;s not fair.&8221;

Coullerez said the ease of crossing the border with no consequences was getting out of hand.

&8220;It&8217;s like if someone wants to sit in your chair you say first, &8216;Tell me who you are,&8217; then &8216;tell me why are you in my chair,&8217;&8221; he said. &8220;It&8217;s going to be very difficult to push the ones away who are working, but the people have to be stopped from coming here illegally.&8221;

Immigration could also create a wall between illegal immigrants and American- born citizens, Coullerez said.

&8220;They are fooled because they have a car and can buy cheap clothes from Wal-Mart,&8221; Coullerez said. &8220;Here they can work and don&8217;t need an education. Here they are king.&8221;

A solution exists, Louisiana&8217;s Fifth District Rep. Rodney Alexander told the Ferriday Chamber of Commerce Monday.

&8220;We are concerned about Iraq but are more concerned about individuals crossing the borders with signs and their countries flag draped over their shoulder,&8221; Alexander said. &8220;There are no cut-and-dry solutions to some problems, but we could stop the border problems if we put our mind to it and say we are going to stop this.&8221;

Alexander told people at the meeting the whole world knows that they can get to Mexico and get into the

United States with &8220;not much of a problem.&8221;

Coullerez, Winkworth and Alexander all feel the same about one thing.

&8220;All who want to immigrate here need to respect the law,&8221; Coullerez said. &8220;They are not crazy, they are not stupid. It takes some courage to move somewhere you don&8217;t even know the language and adapt.&8221;

Alexander feels part of the fuel being added to the fire comes from the fact that Americans continue to hire the illegal immigrants.

&8220;I can swipe my credit card at a gas pump and within seconds it will tell the pump to come on,&8221; Alexander said. &8220;Why can&8217;t we have a system for employers like that telling them if that person needs to be here or not.&8221;

Whether the problem was started by Americans or not, Coullerez said a change must occur.

&8220;Katrina created jobs that required them to carry two-by-fours and put them in the right place,&8221; he said. &8220;Those are the jobs that Americans don&8217;t seem to want to do.&8221;