[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.

[no-to-illegals]

Illegals assimilate quicker than Legals. The children of illegals speak English. The illegals’ children add quickly to the scores of every school in our nation. The lines at hospitals are shortest in the emergency room, since the illegals came. The illegals add to the tax base and are not a drain to our economy. I can find no basis of wrong done by illegals, instead the illegals’ counterpart the legals paint a complete and direct opposite of what the illegals bring. By all means open the flood gates wider, America cannot survive without the illegals. Criminal activity is of no concern. Without criminal activity America cannot survive. Ban Legal Immigration, and do it now. There is the problem, staring back at America, the Legals. Something has to be done. By all means place America on the train track. Tie America down well, even though America struggles. And when America is gone, all the illegals can celebrate. Yes, the day comes, when America is tied to the train tracks. Please help this author, for America is not the good person lain out on the train track. No, America is the villain.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"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."

Please provide your source for this allegation as is applies to Mexicans, Central and South Americans who entered this country illegally.

[Paulus Invictus]

Your use of the term “properly assimilated” is very amusing. I have known many hispanics in California who have resided there, illegally, for as long as 20 years, and they not only did not assimilate, they still cannot speak English. As for being good potential citizens of America, they are uniformly not interested in becoming citizens, they know virtually nothing about our history and culture and celebrate their own Latin American culture. La RAZA’s goal is to take over the whole of our Southwest and make it “their country again.” Read their web site if you doubt that goal.

[raybbr]

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

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

That's hysterical. We don't know who they are now how would this happen?