[livius]

Sorry, but the WSJ is right.

We need fewer bad legal immigrants (for example, the huge numbers of Muslims Obama has brought here) and the legalization of more decent immigrants (for example, the Latin American groundskeepers who really only want to work here until they can go back to their home towns and start a tiny business there).

And we need to upgrade the US lower level workforce. Anybody who saw one of our great high school products, “Racheal,” making her illiterate and unintelligible statements in the Zimmerman case will realize why we’re not competitive against even low-skilled immigrants who arrive here without a word of English. They have motivation, and our people don’t.

And because of racial preference, we don’t even have any standard of excellence anymore.

[JLS]

I am in general in favor of more workers, via guest worker programs, if or when the economy or some sectors need them. However, you can not play people for fools. The American public were promised the fence years ago.

If you did not follow through, we’ll whose fault is it that the public wont go along with further changes now? Worse yet they insult the public by promising the fence again.

When you try to have a compromise, you should ask what each side is getting. So what are the people concerned about culture getting this time? A promise to maybe build a fence that won’t be built again? Give them something real. How about the dream act young adults in exchange for an end to anchor babies not severable? That is compromise. This is jamming something down the throat of people that they do not want and insulting them with a obvious promise of something already promised them.

[zeestephen]

Re: “We need fewer bad legal immigrants and the legalization of more decent immigrants.”

Sorry to bring bad news, livius.

“Racheal” IS an immigrant!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Did you read the whole WSJ article? WSJ is advocating the importation of 10s of millions of leftist voters. This is on the same moral plane as ballot box stuffing or jury rigging, but on a much grater scale.

Which brings us to the "path to citizenship" for the estimated 11 million illegal residents already living in the U.S. Conservatives are again calling this "amnesty," though the bill requires that illegal residents pay fines of $2,000 and wait at least 13 years before they can become citizens, and bars them from welfare or ObamaCare as they wait. The question restrictionists don't like to answer is what is their alternative? As Florida Republican Marco Rubio says, current law is itself a form of amnesty because no one thinks those already here will leave or be deported.