[dagnabbit]

There is no obligation, moral or otherwise, to abide foreign nationals who come here with no productive skill, means of self support or capability to contribute to the benefit of the larger American family. They need to find a sponsor or return to their homeland.

Tell that to George Bush, who restored welfare benefits to immigrants, cut under Clinton.

There is no limit to the number of honest, hard working, productive and inspired individuals that are welcome in America. No limit, ever. We've got room for hundreds of millions more

You must vacation in Calcutta. I wonder how many share your utopian vision of a half-billion or billion people here consigning the America of wide open spaces to the dust bin of history.

[They may] speak foreign languages and worship in their own place and ways.

So you're cool with replacing our former nearly-universal use of English with an assortment of languages (since diversity is our greatest strength), and good to go too, with a Judeo Christian society being supplanted here by a growing Islamic one (why not, its doing wonders for France)?

[ArneFufkin]

English is spoken around the world. It is the language of commerce. Every immigrant group, who is not polluted by soulless Marxists of the left, will embrace English proficiency within one generation of arrival.

Our Judeo Christian morals, ethics and vitues are embued in our secular blueprint, the American Constitution. American Muslims embrace the empowering concepts and responsibilties that underly the Constitution, they don't have to worship Allah in any way but their own.

Bush said legally resident immigrants, who pay taxes to fund public entitlements for citizens, should have access to them when need arises. What's wrong with that? They're paying for the service, they have a right to use them when need arises.

Those severely wounded Marines from Mexico and Guatamala who took their oaths of citizenship from President Bush while recovering in Walter Reed are FAR MORE American than some fifth generation white trash screaming at each other on Jerry Sprenger.