As for me, I'm an American. If they don't want to partake in this nation's blessings, then I would suggest that they should leave for their own mental health's sake. No need in going crazy over something you have control over, right?
Amen!I appreciate your feeling that the semantics of the conservative argument needed to be corrected. It definitely helps to have a clear and seamless statement to promote ones view. But aside from my attempt to break the tension with a little levity I really think there's some practical merit in my idea. As a nation we should be ready to bear the costs of assisting those trapped here by circumstance to a better life. Somewhere else. And I think it would behoove us equally to require of immigrants that they have the means and plans to become productive American citizens. Bush's plan to assist immigrants is folly. If they're not ready to work for the level of existence they want to live at here then they don't want to be here badly enough.
The philosophy of "tax the rich to assist the poor" is antithetical to liberty. Reparations and immigrant assistance are part and parcel of that socialist philosophy. It ought to be "assistance to leave, fortitude to enter".