Even more amazing than Part 2 immediately below, Michelle Malkin, "the Asian Anne Coulter", notes that liberal scumbag Ted Rall agrees with her about the need for decent US border control. In fact she has links to a number of lefties who think borders should be better secured. Michelle is not by any means the only conservative person who thinks immigration is bad, variousbloggers and freepers do too. She can add me (usually a right of centre semi-libertarian anarchistic) to the list too since I am also less than impressed with US immigration policy. I read the Rall article in amazement since I specifically agree with a number of things he wrote including all but the very last sentence of the conclusion:
While we encourage illegal immigration, we've made it virtually impossible for a foreigner who dreams of becoming an American to do so legally. Legal immigration is limited to people who already have relatives here, are sponsored by an employer or are seeking political asylum from a tiny list of approved countries. Had these rules been enforced since 1776, there would be more Native Americans than any other variety.
A sane immigration policy would reverse these attitudes. We should welcome legal immigrants in much larger numbers. After all, America has always become culturally richer and economically more prosperous as the result of its hard-working newcomers. Legal immigration should become safe, legal and commonplace. At the same time, no nation worthy of the name can tolerate porous borders. We can and must seal our borders to prevent economic migrants, terrorists and others with unknown motives from entering the United States. It's time to stop sucking up to big business.
The only bit I disagree with is the sucking up to big business. Although I think there may be some of that the larger group being sucked up to, which Rall can't bring himself to identify, is the Hispanic minority in the US, which all the politicians hope will vote for them. Its the votes not the $$$$ IMO.
Like I said before - if you get people on all sides saying that something is bad or needs to be fixed then its probably a sign that it is really really broken. Even more than the idea that Peter Tatchell and Melanie Phillips are on the same side I get a real kick out of liberal moonbats like Ted Rall and frothing conservative Freepers agreeing with each other...