Reply #61: So let me see if I have this right....

[Quill Pen]

The U.S. f*cks up other countries. So the logical solution to this is that we swing wide the gates and let everyone in? As punishment for being imperialist pigs? The solution to screwing up the world (assuming your view is accurate, and the U.S. is the origin of every evil in the world, and Third World leaders have entirely clean hands and good intentions, it's all our fault...) is to screw up our own country. Oh, OK.

If you want to punish the imperialists, you go right ahead and punish them. But you conveniently forget that large populations of undocumented immigrants skulking about doesn't hurt the gated-community set who advance policies like NAFTA. Au contraire; it never touches them. It hurts the American lower class.

They're the ones who have to ride public transport or send their kids to school with illegals who might be carrying TB or God knows what else. They're the ones competing for jobs with people who will work for pennies. They're the ones who suffer when hospitals and schools collapse from underfunding in border states.