Immigrants add to the prosperity of this country -- they always have but it usually takes until the second generation to see it and by the third generation there is full integration and value added. I personally hope that immigration and trade issues split the GOP up, far too many of you 'conservatives' have shown yourselves as paternalistic nativists who would rather look to government for 'solutions' to 'problems' that aren't even problems. Some of you claim that you're not xenophobic and that you believe legal immigration does, in fact, benefit the U.S...and those some of you are right! So why not push for more legal immigration through easier, less bureaucratic policy? Maybe it is because those some of you know that you'll get flamed by your more numerous pitchfork wielding political allies here.
There is no difference, in my eyes, between the authoritative nature of you people on the far right and your counterparts on the far left; only the issues you champion are different, and even those are getting blurrier. I'm hoping that after the political shifts and mergers are finally carried out, they'll be more lovers of freedom on one side than there are lovers of the state...I'm not going to hold my breath, though.