[Gene Eric]

Towards the end of the article:

Political observers suggest that immigration law will be one of the areas where a Democratic Congress and a Republican White House may be able to reach consensus. Before they do, they should flick on a TV.

The article has few merits and rapidly draws itself into conclusions based on a TV show. Poniewozik takes his jabs at a few easy targets, and tries to inoculate himself using contrived compassion; but inevitably, fails to make a cogent argument.

[Dog Gone]

If you read Time Magazine, you pay a couple of bucks to lower your IQ.

It's a bargain!

[sarasmom]

I have long since passed the boiling point.
I now cast a cold hard eye at any and all "immigrants", legal or not.
There was a time, in the not so distant past, that citizens could be forgiven for assuming their government actually secured our borders, and that anyone who spoke English as a second language, had entered the country, and our local communities legally, and had a "right" to assume they were welcome.
That time has passed.
We now know the reason healthcare costs have skyrocketed to the point that many of us can not afford even basic health insurance, is because our government has trended socialist, and "new world order", against our will, and against the Constitution.
Viva the revolution!

[arthurus]

I, at least, have no problem with individual illegals and progeny of illegals I have met who come with the ideas of making a better life and of becoming Americans with American values. Of course those are not all of them, maybe not a majority. My problem is with the total lack of intent to close the border and not let them in in the first place. I do not fault the employers who hire them. I fault the government that does not arrest, jail, and fine those employers. A consistent and surely applied set of fines and jail terms would rapidly eliminate the reasons the illegals come here and those here would begin to self-deport. And giving them free government services is insane.

[gubamyster]

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