I have no problem at all with legal immigration, never have, never will. When Bush started talking about immigrants being important to our economy, surely he wasn't talking about the legal ones. They jumped through the hoops that our government laid out for them to jump through to be a part of this country, like my ancestors did.
The Minutemen are not on our borders trying to keep out 'legal immigrants'. If they were legal, they wouldn't be sneaking through.
How much money do illegal immigrants contribute to our country? Billions perhaps? IIRC, they send back to Mexico about $60 billion. How's that helping our country? That's just propping up the corrupt government in Mexico. Mexico keeps the rich and middle class there and encourages their poor to come here and take advantage of any program they can get their hands on.
And you know this exactly how??
The only conclusion to draw from your assumption is that the President was deliberately lying when he clearly said "immigrant" and not "illegal immigrant."
I prefer to hear what he says and not what someone guesses that he meant. No offense to you, p.