[paul544]

Open the borders to allow people the opportunity at a better life. If you want to have requirements once they are here, fine. But keep the border open so they can get here to begin with.

[Jeff Chandler]

It's late. Time to close the borders and go to bed.

[FITZ]

There are some cities in Mexico like Monterrey where life isn't too bad -- if a middle class can almost be achieved there, then why not for more of Mexico (but inside Mexico)?

Actually it would be far better for Mexicans to have Americans come south, bring the US culture into Mexico and build it up. NAFTA isn't helping, but if Americans could build up some of that coastal land and bring in high productive farms, it would be a good thing for Mexico and it's people.

[Living Stone]

Most Mexicans were living in mud huts, or the equivilant when my ancestors came to this country. Guess what? Most of them, in Mexico, are still living in the same.

Is that really what we need to import, wholesale, into this country? I think not.

I think that you and your fellow "progresives" do not want to elevate the rest of the world to our level. I am convinced that you wish to drag us down to the level of the rest of the world. Can you provide evidence to the contrary? I am doubtful.

I think that you are perhaps an enemy of everything I hold dear.