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Deborah Durkee br> Marietta, Georgia /p>

This is absolutely the best, most succinct summary of my feelings and beliefs on this subject. When Thomas Sowell's argument regarding the economics of immigration is overlaid on this piece, I think you have the perfect rationale for meaningful policy reform that any reasonable person could want or muster.

After the failings of the administration and Congress to cut the budget and use their simultaneous control of the legislative and executive branch to eliminate programs and departments in Reaganesque fashion, I and many Republicans will be watching this issue very closely. If something along the lines described by Ms. Liebau is not enacted, I will be voting for whoever is the challenger in the next Republican primary, and may or may not vote in the national election.

p>On a related topic, like many other red staters who have made contributions to the party over the years, I have stopped giving and it will be some time before I start again. I have paid and voted to get the Republicans into power SO THEY WILL ENACT LAWS I AGREE WITH. They haven't been doing that. Before they get paid anymore, I expect to see concrete results. The plea of "if you don't give, Democrats will get elected" is falling on deaf ears. We put you in office to do a job--and we can damn well put you out if you don't start doing what we sent you there to do. br> -- Matt Patrick /p> p> Hear! Hear! I am an Hispanic fully cultured, assimilated and "Americanized," three generations removed from the countries of my heritage. My ambivalence about the immigration issue is slowly gravitating to the disposition she expresses. In particular I am impressed by the last sentence of the article, "...immigrating to America is a privilege to be cherished, not an entitlement to be demanded." It succinctly states a truth that perhaps because of its simplicity, is easily ignored in the current debate. Now, if only it were possible to convey this concept to that illiterate mass that functions strictly upon raw emotion, bereft of civil rationale. br> -- O.A. /p> p> There is a contradiction in Carol Liebau's article... She says immigration laws need to be enforced, and then she says that illegal immigrants need to learn English.... Denny Hastert is going along with a guest worker program, so it looks like we've lost this one... We'd be better off to leave things as they are. br> --

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