Mr. Scrabble, Your points have strong merit and I couldn't agree with you more. With that being said I have to tell you that your perspective is coming from a highly emotional plateau and your recommendations are very naive. My friend, you may go to heaven with the way you view and live life, but you won't be able to govern a country or sustain an economy. These are your songs of innocence not your songs of experience. You have to understand where America is coming from. The psychology of success and prosperity can be very complicated. It is like looking up to the sky and seeing a sword loosely tied to a rope that you think can break at any moment. When you are extremely successful your psyche can become very fragile and you are always afraid that the sword dangling above your head can fall on you any moment. To sustain progress you have to make practical decisions, ceteris paribus. (Keep all else equal, human sentiments, ethics and morals.) With the Immigration situation, why is it immoral for a country to want to secure its own borders and preserve whatever homogeneity it has left? Giving amnesty to all illegal aliens will encourage more immigration and more chaos in the next decade. The whites don't want to lose their majority here. Why should they want to? I mean would you want Nepal to be predominantly Indian? In today’s nuclear world, you have to try different techniques to ensure the safety of the country. If you really look at the way immigration has increased in this country, it is insane. Where in any other part of the world can you see such an abnormal influx? Giving temporary work visas to illegals is the best thing that the government can do, given the contributions of illegals to country so there is a give and take process. But eventually half of these people probably will be sent back. There has to be discipline. Look at how population control has helped China? You can argue that the government is imposing its will on people's god given rights to reproduce however many children they want to, but this rule has helped the country. Arguing right and wrong is redundant after a while. You see, what was right or moral 100 years ago is not right or moral anymore, and what might be a tradition or an ideal today, might not be one tomorrow. The effect of Illegal Immigration on the welfare state is a cause for concern. The baby-boomer retirement strain to pension funds and social security is occurring concurrently with illegals and unemployed Americans dependence on social programs. This has to be addressed. Bush is taking a practical businessman approach to this problem, but these illegals have to demonstrate an ability to assimilate, learn the language and have some sense of affection for the country. To be frank, some illegals don't give a rats ass about the US as long as they make some money. That has to change. I mean some of these guys came into the country without legal rights and now, they walk around parading with their national flags claiming to what right? This is an issue of poverty, but who is to blame for that? Their country of origin's inability to provide for their citizens due to corruption and many other factors. We can go off on this discussion forever. The US cannot continue to import poverty in this type of unregulated manner.