My wife is from Minsk, Belarus. Getting her here was not easy but we did it, and we did it legal, and she has her green card. Others have REALLY played by the rules for years to get to the USA. But ‘comprehensive’ reform is usually code for letting illegals cut in line and get citizenship AHEAD of those who are waiting – legally.

Security should be a concern. Illegals who are felons are not going to ‘come out of the shadows’, so the legalization program does nothing for security. INS currently processes about 3 million applications per year. If you assume that here are 12 million illegals who would come forth for amnesty, that’s 4 years work for the department that does security checks, and we would still not be finding the illegals who KNOW they are wanted, because they won’t come forward. However, without adding to ICE staffing, we will put applications for legal foreigners on hold for 4 years??? This so we can process applications of lawbreakers?

Economics. Barb has noted numerous times that wages have been stagnent or fallen while productivity has grown, and profits have grown. One safety valve that allows this economic boom NOT to be felt on Main street is the influx of foreign labor who will work cheap. That’s why the Chamber of Commerce is bonkers to roll out the red carpet for open borders.

Now, it’s easy to sweep this issue under the carpet by saying those who feel as I do ar red-neck racists and xenophobic. Which I am not. But let’s look objetively at 3 issues. Fairness to legal immigrants, Security, and Economics. And let’s see some objective dialoge. I am ready to discuss solutions.

This may be after-the-fact rationalizing, but you’d think the keep-tabs-on-everybody windnut brigade might have at least looked at that facet. Instead, all they actually care about is the political hay they can make from every inconsequential position taken by any opponent.

America will sleep through yet another “issue,” and the world will go on.

Remarkably, he won’t. To him, problem issues are only problems when they apply to Democrats. The same issue applied to Republicans are not problems.

Shouldn’t Broder be worrying about what the immigration issue could do to Rudy and Mitt?