[cyborg]

This article is SPOT ON esp. this quote...Polls show that more than 70 percent of Americans object to illegal immigration, and we run a serious risk of a backlash against all immigrants if we don't reach some consensus on this issue.

I am a first generation American. My father came from Italy many moons ago, and my mother came to the US in the Sixties as part of a British West Indian guest worker program. There is a definate growing backlash against IMMIGRANTS. Please there is a difference between illegal aliens and legal immigrants. Let's get that straight for the 'freedom bus riders' going around the US right now.

I wish the government would do its job, and tell Vicente Fox to shove it up his ethnic cleansing 'I hate indians' a$$.

[FITZ]

We owe it to the future to have a candid debate on the demographic impact of a mass migration of this magnitude.

Plus things in Mexico are getting worse and worse ---- partly as a result of massive emigration out of the country. No one is left to do the work there, villages with half their populations gone. That's why in spite of so much immigration that 1/4 to 1/5 of the Mexican people have now gone to the USA, Vicente Fox and his cohorts are ever more desperate for the rest of them to leave. Our leaders need to realize that what Mexico has to do is make some long overdue changes so that a middle class could exist there.

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[Mears]

They say they want the American Dream,well they better hurry.The American Dream is rapidly disappearing.


Why don't they try India or China,that's where the American Dream is heading.Jobs,jobs,jobs.

[Sabertooth]

Polls show that more than 70 percent of Americans object to illegal immigration, and we run a serious risk of a backlash against all immigrants if we don't reach some consensus on this issue. Polls also show that there is no issue in America where there is a bigger gap between public opinion and opinions of the media and other "elites."

And still our Republican politicians insist on appeasement.

[XHogPilot]

BUMP for later read

[Mike Darancette]

A Hispanic Quebec?

More like Hispanic Bantustans dispersed throughout the country.

[Dan Evans]

Not to mention the "earned income tax credit" which is nothing but a handout. You can get about 4 grand a year in tax refunds (depending on the number of kids you have) without paying any taxes.

[iconoclast]

bump for later

[ETERNAL WARMING]

American citizens want the American Dream too. Too bad it too moved overseas. China and India are currently enjoying it.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for posting this getget.

Good read ping to you SAM.

[Alberta's Child]

The one problem I have with this article is that it examines immigration in a vacuum, without noting the devastating impact that the political/legal climate in the modern U.S. is going to have on the future of this nation.

A modern, affluent nation that kills more than a million unborn babies every year, and then allows more than a million illegal immigrants to cross the border every year, does not need "immigration reform" -- it needs a large-scale psychiatric examination for all 280 million of its people.

With each day that passes, I'm becoming more convinced that we're watching a slow-motion unraveling of this nation along the lines of the Tower of Babel story from the Old Testament.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Interesting, written by Richard Lamm, Former Governor of Colorado, home of my favorite politician.

[DustyMoment]

Two points that this article seems to ignore:

1. Many of the illegals crossing the borders are better educated and are taking higher level jobs. They are buying large houses and driving expensive SUVs. Why, exactly, am I supposed to want these people in my country?

2. With an increasing number of high tech jobs being exported to India, many native Americans find themselves competing with illegals for jobs. If we don't stop the illegal immigration and begin reversing the trend, what will become of the golden dream that America represents if Americans can't get jobs?

[spodefly]

BTTT

[Ches]

BTTT

[Pelham]

ping

[sixmil]

4. We are told that illegal immigration is "cheap labor," but it is not "cheap labor," it is subsidized labor. The National Academy of Sciences has found that there is a significant fiscal drain on U.S. taxpayers for each adult immigrant without a high school education. Illegal immigration is something that benefits a few employers, but the rest of us subsidize that labor through the school system, the health-care system, the courts and in other ways that this form of labor imposes. With school spending of more than $7,000 per student per year, even a small family costs far more than a low-wage family pays in taxes.

Important point. The free-trade/borders crowd like to tell us that reasonable tariffs are a subsidy, but the real subsidy is the US taxpayer subsidizing cheap labor for the open borders/trade crowd.

[nosofar]

1. We are a nation built on law. It almost sounds old-fashioned in contemporary America to ask that people obey the law. But when we start deciding which laws to obey and which to ignore, we start down a dangerous path. There are millions of potential immigrants patiently waiting in their home countries to immigrate here, playing by our rules. Illegal immigrants "jump the line."

My wife waited over a year to get here because I was naive and stupid enough to bother obeying the immigration laws.

[Polybius]

On immigration

No. This is not about "immigration". This is about "illegal aliens".

Once we adopt the opposition's euphemisms, the battle becomes that much harder.