[Rudder]

It’s not only the illegality per se that we should object to, it’s the resultant lack of an immigration program and its rules that hurt the country. Do we accept all who strive to come here without regard to their education level? Do we accept all without regard to whether they have criminal records? Do we accept all without regard to whether they have serious, communicable disease? And, do we accept all regardless of their intent, even if they desire this country’s downfall?

[proudmilitarymrs]

“Do we accept all who strive to come here without regard to their education level? Do we accept all without regard to whether they have criminal records? Do we accept all without regard to whether they have serious, communicable disease? And, do we accept all regardless of their intent, even if they desire this country’s downfall?”

I’m with Rudder on this. Why did we stop doing things the way we did it at Ellis Island?

mrs

[LowCountryJoe]

Do we accept all without regard to whether they have serious, communicable disease?

No, we should not. There should be background checks and medical screenings done at the immigrant's expense.

Do we accept all who strive to come here without regard to their education level?

Emphatically, yes! A process that makes an immigrant pay the costs of the processes to admissions, would cause the net quality of entrants to increase, especially because of what would be being checked for in the process. And, because either they're getting the money on their own -- which is generally indicative of quality -- or someone stateside is willing to front them the money, also an indicator of quality. Also, after just the third generation, even the descendants of the most uneducated immigrants are properly assimilated and the contributions of these descendants have paid for themselves and there parents who gave birth to them.

[Hardastarboard]

Do we accept all without regard to whether they have serious, communicable disease?

EXACTLY!!! (YES, I'm shouting!) There was a little publicized epidemic (yes, a real epidemic, not the kind the MSM talks about) of whooping cough that swept the country about three years ago. My wife had it, and my wife has asthma. Talk about scaring the $h!t out of me, hearing my asthmatic wife cough like that.

And where do you think that epidemic started? I'm pretty sure it didn't come out of the Hamptons or Nob Hill.