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The Wall Street Journal is generally a conservative publication and generally correct on most issues.

They are wrong here - DEAD wrong.

The Journal is representing those interests in the U.S. here who are pushing this amnesty the most - the corporate interests. They WANT a cheap source of labor. They WANT people they can exploit for peonage wages. Illegal aliens provide this, and they want to able to freely recruit and hire more of them.

Bush's proposals are inimical to the best interests of the American Public and are so very evil, that I, an individual who long supported the man, am considering not voting for him in the next election should these be approved by Congress.

They are unfair and unpopular with Native-born Americans because they will contribute to the further erosion of the life style of average Americans, and will increase the trend toward de-Anglicization of America (and I mean Anglo in the very BROADEST cultural sense of that term, not in an ethnic connotation. Many Polish Americans, Germans Americans, etc. and even Hispanic Americans are, in effect, Anglos. They speak English as a sole or primary language, they have accepted and adopted Anglo-American cultural and social practises, and most importantly, they consider themselves and their children "American"). Floods of illegal aliens - and we are talking primarily South and Central Americans and Meixcans here - will radically alter that balance in such a way that our country would not even be recognized in a few generations as America.

These proposals are unfair to the masses of LEGAL resident aliens and workers who waited in line, paid their fees, filed the forms, and submitted to the requisite checks. They are unfair to aleins from countries other than Hispanic ones who would like to come here.

They are unfair to America considering the fact that the greatest beneficiary is the corrupt, ineffecient government of Senior Vicente Fox. Due to its incompetence and mismanagement, Mexican society continually generates an army of poor, destitute people who have no place in their society and for whom Mexico is unable or unwilling to support. Fox's solution is to make HIS problem OUR problem.

Finally, they are unfair to American society as a whole, as they provide an incentive for yet more illegals to come here, burden our social support networks, and also permit potential terrorists to establish residences here ar more easily.

If there REALLY is a NEED for more labor in America, then change the quotas and allow more legal aliens in, DON'T REWARD THOSE WHO BREAK OUR LAWS BY ALLOWING THEM TO SETTLE HERE.

When Bush says that he is proposing a program which allows aliens in in the event there is a job for which no Americans are available, he is being naive or disingenuous.
Those employers who are pushing this are pushing it precisely because they want to AVOID hiring Americans for wage reasons, or because they want to import friends or relatives or friends from their home country. And once here, even temporarily, these people need only conceive and deliver one child here and they and that child will remain here forever.

Bush's motive in this are SO transparent I am embarrassed and ashamed. He is pandering to one ethnic group - the Hispanics, in hopes that this will generate more Republican voters and to curry favor and financial support from business interets. He is NOT serving the American public or America's best interests.

In the ongoing war against trerrorism, border security is one of our most pressing issues and on this he and his administration have not only failed, they are actively seeking to undermine it further.

Unless Bush changes his position on this issue, he does not deserve a second term. Write in Tancredi or Alan Keyes in November of 2004.

If there REALLY is a NEED for more labor in America, then change the quotas and allow more legal aliens in, DON'T REWARD THOSE WHO BREAK OUR LAWS BY ALLOWING THEM TO SETTLE HERE.

This comment, ZULU, is your most important. You instinctively sense here what too many critics of this foolishly reject, that there is an economic necessity that needs filling. The problem is insisting that the 8,000,000+ illegals already here must FIRST all be rounded up and deported before the laws are changed to allow them and others back in again legally. That is just too impractical to work. It would be a little like making ALL the illegally escaped slaves FIRST return to their plantations before they would all be freed after the Civil War just so that they wouldn't have an unfair advantage over the law obeying slaves who had stayed home.

As for your other fears, they are mostly unfounded. Hispanics are by your broad cultural definition Anglos: of European descent ethnically, culturally, and religiously. The language barrier is no greater than that faced by Germans, Poles, Italians, etc. before them, easily solved in one generation UNLESS their children are shunted off to bilingual ghettos in school. What's more if you are serious about fears of terrorists hiding among them, you ought to support legalization of SOME kind as an alternative to leaving them out their hiding indefinitely.

Finally, even if you continue to disagree, I wouldn't stay home on election day if I were you, at least not unless you think you will like President Howard Dean's immigration policy better.