[MarlboroRed]

I have little patience for Barone. He, along with Ben Wattenberg and others, sees little difference between the illegals from Mexico and the Italian immigrants at the turn of the century. Forgetting that perhaps 40% of the Italian immigrants eventually returned to Italy, he ignore completely that the US shares a COMMON BORDER with Mexico, that these illegal immigrants have no incentive to assimilate and that these illegals, unlike all other earlier generations of immigrants, are not sucking away billions of dollars in welfare and healthcare.

[MHT]

Isn't a major part of the problem our inability to figure out just who is legal and who's illegal? What I can't figure out is why we have to (a) cater to someone's unwillingness to learn English [after all, what European country would bend over backward for English-speaking immigrants?], and; (b) why do we have to support seven-ways-from-Sunday a woman who came over the border to have a "citizen" baby while she herself is not a US citizen? And why do we owe illegal kids an education and healthcare when we can't guarantee a competitive standard of education (and in some cases, healthcare access) for our own citizens' children?