"Well he certainly is an excitable chap, isn't he?"
Not particularly.
"If the FACTS are presented in a straight forward manner the RIGHT will understand the need to put these people on a streamline path to citizenship."
If the facts were presented fully and accurately, everyone to the right of Babsie Stweisand would be out on the streets, gun in hand, helping with the roundup.
"It would be a shame to give these people the impression that we don't want them as fellow Americans."
Why the Hell should we want them? It's up to us to decide whom we will allow to immigrate, and why would we pick people with so little respect for our laws?
"The political fall-out to us will be severe if we don't get proactive in helping these people."
1. Political fall-out? That's your big concern?
2. Help them? Who's going to help me? Who's going to help our homeless vets? Who is going to properly fund military and veterans' hospitals? I will help them walk back to the border by shoving a shotgun up their butts, and that's the only help they're getting from me.
"This thread's main article suggests sites like FreeRepublic are hurting that effort."
I certainly hope so.
"Of course too many FReepers are too shallow to grasp that concept."
Or rather, they understand the issue much more fully than you do.
Do you think President Reagan would have invited you to lunch after reading your post?
Or would he'd more likely invite me?
Thanks for playing.
You should understand that DCprofiteer has admitted hiring illegals to help run a piece of his business, has said that he starts every day at the local 7-11 where they loiter, has said that his first opinion (before any facts were known) was that Ramos and Campeon were guilty and that the drug smuggler was telling the truth and, most telling, when asked about the victims of illegal criminals, the number of ERs closed because of them, the reduction in school services to American kids because of them, in other words, the impact on Americans who don't profit from them, his response was, "YAWN". No concern whatsoever for the price paid by Americans so that he can save a few bucks.