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The Kenyan’s only goal in the speech was to score political points with Hispanics favoring amnesty. If there weren’t for a perceived political advantage for himself, the Kenyan wouldn’t care at all. The Kenyan came off as a weak whiner, again.

I think the right can run successfully on securing the borders and sending illegals home.

One of the problems with having large numbers of higher level skilled workers come in is that they actually do compete with Americans for well-paying jobs, more so than laborers.

We probably need unskilled workers, too, at any rate when our construction industry is functioning. But there should be a special short-term visa for them so that they can come for projects or for limited periods of time and then go home again. This would probably affect Latin Americans primarily, since they are the ones who live close enough to come and go easily and they have a large number of young male workers who are generally the type required for construction work, clean up work, etc. in places where there isn’t much domestic labor. And the great majority of them actually want to go back home after they have made enough money, but the way our law is now, it actually encourages them to hide out here and stay because they aren’t sure they’ll be able to return for a future job.

Something like that would also cut into the people smuggling business, which, while it smuggles in druggies and non-Latin foreigners from all over the world, smuggles in a lot of basic laborers from Latin America.

I agree about the family member stuff, and I have never understood why one person who arrives here has the right to bring all of his extended family with him (which he can apparently do whether he can support them or not). That’s a real abuse.

That said, I doubt that any of these ideas will even be discussed, because I don’t think Obama intends to deal with this through the legislature. I expect to see him have the agencies enact various regulatory things that will achieve his goals.

And the problem is that his goals are not the economic or political well-being of the United States, which is, as the author says, the thing that should be the foundation of our immigration policy.

I was reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution this morning, looking for references to God-given rights and I came across this segment in the Declaration. Does Obama think that he is King George?

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He (King George) has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

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That is exactly what Obama is doing in regard to the Arizona immigration law. The following segment might necessarily apply as well:

....it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

It came to my attention during the Kagan hearings that Kagan does not believe in inalienable, God given rights. If there are no God-given rights, the state(federal government) becomes the highest arbiter of those rights and the government will do anything to consolidate and reinforce their control of power, including obliviating the natural rights of the citizens.