Gompers, Samuel - (founder and pres. of AFL, an immigrant)
"America must not be overwhelmed. Every effort to enact immigration legislation must expect to meet a number of hostile forces and, in particular, two hostile forces of considerable strength. One of these is composed of corporation employers who desire to employ physical strength (broad backs) at the lowest possible wage and who prefer a rapidly revolving labor supply at low wages to a regular supply of American wage earners at fair wages. The other is composed of racial groups in the United States who oppose all restrictive legislation because they want the doors left open for an influx of their countrymen regardless of the menace to the people of their adopted country."
(Letter to Congress, March 19, 1924)
The following Teddy Roosevelt quotes can be found in Edmund Morris, The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt Modern Library 2001)
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin...would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
(Speech, New York, 1915
Other than supreme court nominees, this is one of the biggest domestic issues Bush has to face and horror of horrors, of the two of them, Hillary is (dare I say it?) right! on this issue.
We MUST stop illegal immigration.... Yesterday! Never OH never think that I would ever think of supporting Hitlery!! However, she's astute enough to know that the vast >90% of Americans (voters) support closing our borders to Illegal immigration. If we don't get out in frot of this issue she might actually ride it all the way to the White House. Keep in mind that The Dems have embarked on a scorched earth policy of attacking anything, anyone, & everything the Pubbies support. This will lead the sheeple to anyone who is A. not being vilified and B. has a message (any message) they can support.