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We lost 3,000 people on 9/11/01, due to our lack of focusing on the Middle East.

Wrong. We lost 3,000 people due to our lack of focusing on America.

Wrong. We lost 3,000 people due to our lack of focusing on America. IMO Pat was the only one vocally concerned about 'borders' and immigration. Pat's the only one, who had the guts to say that groups who want to come here and not assimilate, or are incapable of assimilation, should not be allowed in. They could be better helped in their own country. Why import problems? Pat also said we should have a immigration moratorium to properly 'assimilate' those who are here.

Pat was/is right most of the time.

Pat was the only one vocally concerned about 'borders' and immigration. Pat's the only one, who had the guts to say that groups who want to come here and not assimilate, or are incapable of assimilation, should not be allowed in. . . . Pat also said we should have a immigration moratorium to properly 'assimilate' those who are here.
Pat was/is right most of the time.

Mr. B. is correct in many of his statements on immigration (although I think his foreign policy positions are not particularly cogent and are closer to Robert Scheer's than to anyone else's.)

The Republicans -- ostensibly more concerned with national security and crime than the Dems -- nonetheless ignore the issue of continued illegal immigration (I know there are exceptions, but . . .). Perhaps their business-constituency doesn't want its continued supply of cheap labor threatened.

The Dems, on the other hand, supposedly the "party of the people," ignore the effect of unrestrained immigration on wages (downward) and on housing/rental prices (up). HOw about the acute pressure on local gov'ts (hospitals, schools, etc.) in providing for those who, living "underground," pay nothing into the system?

Perhaps they are too afraid to risk angering any perceived block of Hispanics if they raise the issue of controlling the inflow of people into the US (remember Pete Wilson and Prop. 187 in California); also, they're afraid of being called "racist" if they discuss the non-assimilibility of many newcomers (legal or not).

Thus, both paries have handed the issue over to Buchanan.

A shame, IMO.

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