Nice to see some common sense around here occasionally. The Wall Street Journal asked it best a few months ago in an editorial: "What about immigration causes conservatives to lose their bearings so fast?"
It's sad to see people here decrying the rapid growth of our federal government (correctly) on one thread, only to then turn and call for massive, inept, impossibly complicated, damaging federal bureacracies when it comes to immigration.
You like the fact that Californians are paying millions and millions of dollars in support to illegal immigrants? And that situation is just in one single county! There are hundreds of millions of dollars going to illegal immigrants. That's my tax revenue. That's my budget. That's my future savings.
This is not sound business. It's not capitalism. It's redistribution of wealth by fiat and subsidized labor for these "wealth engines" you seem to love so much.
We don't mind legal, limited immigration. We already have those limits now -- and we have plenty of good results from welcoming legal immigrants.
What we can't afford, and what we are obligated by law to prevent, is wetback, border hopping, truck squirreling illegal immigration.
It's easy for you to sit on your high horse and tell us that it's OK for us to pay taxes for these people, sacrifice for our futures, and even limit the number of children we have while illegal immigrants get free medical care for their kids and spawn like rabbits, but I'm telling you to step off with that nonsense.
Legal immigration has sometimes helped our country. But it was always decided by law. Our leaders sat in their duly elected capacities and decided what was acceptable on behalf of the American people.
Fostering and looking the other way on illegal immigration is lawless and it has real consequences for Americans of all races and cultures living here today.
And we have good reason to demand that it end.
Flouting the second amendment, amenestying illegal aliens, and treating the redefinition of marriage as a trivial matter all have one thing in common: ignoring the rule of law and disrespecting the American people's will.
It's all happening for the same reason: American law is protection from tyranny. Without it we would have chaos and anarchy, much like the French revolution. That would suit the black armbanded NION/ANSWER types to a tee. And it would suit George Soros as well. The EU would love to see us devolve into a cultureless, faithless, shapeless society with no direction, no convictions, and no respect for our own Constitution.
And so it goes. I trust that we'll do the right thing in the end.