More on our stupid immigration mess ....

Columnist David Limbaugh has some good comments about immigration:

...we must also address the legality issue (somewhere between felony and amnesty), otherwise we undermine the illegals' essential respect for the rule of law (and ours).

I'm far less sympathetic to the economic concerns, believing that whatever benefits we are reaping are offset by the drains on our entitlement programs. It is unfortunate that some view the immigration issue, like they do everything else, from a purely economic perspective. Economic growth and prosperity are wonderful, but they are not a panacea, and are an unacceptable tradeoff for the disintegration of our culture and the implosion of our constitutional system.

It is even more regrettable that some choose to tar all those who are serious about immigration as racists or nativists. It is a vicious and dishonest ploy mostly by those who are willing to subordinate almost everything good and decent to partisan politics. We have no unique ethnicity in this country. What makes us unique are the God-fearing, egalitarian principles embodied in the Constitution and sustained by the rule of law.

I pray this growing crisis will finally heighten our awareness and motivate us to take the necessary action to preserve the republic.

My thoughts? I have little problem with immigration, but when those who've entered the US illegally start demanding "rights" that they, as "illegal" immigrants don't or shouldn't have, it really rankles my generally sympathetic leanings. Take those feelings of mine and couple them to the fact that the US "caps" legal immigrants with advanced degrees (PhDs, etc.) and expertise in "key jobs" at somewhere between 65,000 to 95,000 per year .... that just seems nonsensical to me. So, it's okay to allow millions of uneducated (though hard-working) illegal immigrants into the US, but not okay to accept/encourage a greater number of highly educated legal immigrants, huh?