Oh and get this it gets worse these cooks at ALIPAC want to take away the American tradition of birth citizenship. There are so many wacko groups out there. I guess Jim has sent them a clear message to stay off Free Republic. It's Jim's site and he can do as he pleases. That's America!
(From the ALIPAC Platform)
"8. Remove the provision that gives citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants who are born on US soil. For many years, the rule has been that if you are born here you are granted citizenship. The vast majorities of illegal immigrants know this and are abusing the rule by quickly having babies once they enter the US. Legal Americans are paying the cost of this foreign baby boom through increased health care costs and Medicaid. Having a child at our expense should not be a foothold to staying in the US illegally."
There is an irrational fear about immigrant groups changing American culture being spoused by the descendants of immigrants who changed American culture upon their arrival, that unlike the immigrants before them, the ones now will change it for the worse.
The whole thing started in 1587 when the colonists at Roanoke became upset at the upstarts new arrivals, and feared that their cultural traits would impact their own.
This may have had something to do with their disappearance.
There's nothing wrong with opposing birth citizenship. Especially, if you knew that many illegals come across pregnant just to squeeze out a baby who gets instant citizenship. Now the family has some claim to American - it's called chain migration and it sucks. We are the only country in the world with birth citizenship and it is time to relook that policy. What is "kooky" is to continue what we're doing, allowing unfettered legal and illegal immigration without putting any thought to what we're doing to ourselves.