[skeeter]

It's more on the order of mob hysteria, bordering (pardon the pun) on xenophobia among those who truly worry about "the American culture" being trampled.

Fascinating. BTW can you tell us exactly how you managed to wade through all of the chaff and misdirection thrown out by the xenophobes regarding things like downward wage pressures, overcrowded schools, crime, closing ERs and, in the case of California, 9 billion dollars a year in additional expenses, to arrive at this remarkably concise but no doubt brilliant blanket conclusion?

[logician2u]

I'll give you the stock answer that anti-immigration stalwarts offer when confronted with the awful prospect of "freeloaders" raiding the pantry: "You can't run a welfare state and have open immigration!"

Well.

Which is it, a)dissolve the welfare state, or b)close the borders?

It's rather a simple choice for conservatives, isn't it?

But I suspect a slew of people who self-identify as conservatives don't really have any problem with a cradle-to-grave welfare state . . .