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"First, let me say that I believe that those who do venture to this country are among the brightest and hardest working individuals that the world has to offer." Yeah, a real absurd beginnning.

Uh, Boris, 80% of the AMERICAN Nobel-Prize Winners were born in another country. Care to reconsider?

Did those prize winners divulge their immigration status before or after getting the prize? Oh, maybe the were here legally to begin with. Then again there are several immigrants who didn't receive the Nobel prize.

Uh, Boris, 80% of the AMERICAN Nobel-Prize Winners were born in another country. Care to reconsider?

And how many were from South of the Rio Grande? I would venture a guess that most came from Europe or Asia.

"Uh, Boris, 80% of the AMERICAN Nobel-Prize Winners were born in another country. Care to reconsider?"

So millions of Nobel-class scientists are invading illegally from Mexico?

And we are too blind to put them in tenured University positions, say in astrophysics or chemistry--instead forcing them to do garden work?

Tell me, genius, what fraction of immigrants are Nobel-Prize winners? What fraction are illegal immigrants?

--Boris

Nobel Prizes are not handed out to illegals, they were just immigrants. Most first generation legal immigrants to America are very ambitious.
Most illegals have little respect for our laws and country. Like many here on work visas, they even dislike America, but are here to "make a packet of money" (as one Brit on a visa told me once), with plans to go back home. The illegals who stay send a lot of money home. And, their community shows no signs of assimilation. There are 2nd generation latinos here who speak little English.
Now that the border is a possible conduit for terrorists, the federal government cannot afford to turn a blind eye.
It is the responsibility of the federal government to protect our borders, not the states. So, the funding should be from the federal level. Right now, the states are bearing most of the burden of health, education, police, prison and welfare. Finally, add in the lost tax revenue, because illegals are paid under the table, and do indeed take jobs that unemployed Americans could have had.