Speak out against GWB's Immigration Proposals
Mood:  down
President Bush is about to blunder into another large-scale reform of our immigration system and he needs to be challenged on it. We don't need any more low-wage-working and uneducated immigrants coming across our borders and setting up shop. (Didn't I just read last week that there 290 million or more people in our country? That's outrageous! We didn't have even 150 million here during the Second World War.)

It may be a practical consideration or an appeal to the Latino vote or something else, but any move to broadly legitimize the residency of and grant citizenship to millions of more illegal immigrants is a huge mistake, both economically and culturally.

Although he alludes to a possible rationale dismissively, John O'Sullivan, in his latest essay, basically hits the nail on the head: Bush is doing this to flood the bottom end of the labor market with cheap workers. This keeps poor schlubs like me at the depressed end of the wage scale ---but it's great for big-shot plant owners and service industry investors. If labor costs stay low, the recovery can continue.

And I'll be happy about that when my grandkids are growing up in New Aztlan, see.

Don't do this, Mr. President. There's not nearly enough advantage to be gained by courting the Latino vote this way. They don't vote anyhow. And all you're doing is accelerating the dissolution of our border with Mexico. That's gonna make for some bad blood.