[dirtboy]

I find it very sad that many of my fellow conservatives are so profoundly negative about immigration, when it built our country from nothing.

I'm not negative about immigration.

I am negative about ILLEGAL immigration. Capice?

[kevkrom]

I'm not negative about immigration. I am negative about ILLEGAL immigration.

Ditto. Word-for-word.

An "undocumented immigrant" is an unconvicted felon.

[TexasKamaAina]

I'm not negative about immigration. I am negative about ILLEGAL immigration. Capice?

Capice. But I'm negative against immigration, legal or illegal, for two reasons. One, as long as we piously invoke the distinction between legal and illegal as the basis for our concern the pols will just work on a way to legalize the current invasion. Two, I have concerns that go beyond economics. Let's grant that, in the long run, liberal and legal immigration provides us economic advantages. There are still social and cultural implications that should be considered. We are inheritors of a political culture that goes back to the Magna Carta. We need our immigration policy to protect that inheritance by ensuring that new immigrants arrive in numbers that can be assimilated and that they have a mind to do so. I think if we shut down immigration now it could probably take 50 - 75 years to fully assimilate our current immigrants.