Immigrants of 100 years ago vs. those of today, had: -1- no public medical assistance to speak of -2- no high schools except rarely- -3-no bilingual or anti-assimilationist public education -4-no voting for illiterates -5- no affirmative action -5- negligible welfare, and none for illegitimate children -6- no public housing -7- no social security checks for disability or retirement -8- no exemption from screening for infectious diseases -9-no special solicitude from professoriate or officialdom -10-no chance of getting their language established as an official one... and quite a few other important differences

This analogy of current immigrants to those of 100 years ago, is the bromide to end all narcotics. Working-class in that era, meant real workers, not welfare-swilling obesity victims. Hundreds of millions of acres of new forest have grown to maturity, since the peak acreage year of land under crops, around 1918. This is what we need mass immigration for, to help take land out of production? 100 or more years ago, it was wanted to have immigrants to help us fight the indian; now the government brings in indians to help them wage war on the majority.

The subject line got my attention, I think alot of people are in the US from Mexico today with no intention of becoming US citizens. They want to remain Mexican citizens, and Mexican nationals, but they are here for work because the Mexican economy has not increased while their population has. I think this is a different than how it was yesterday.

I feel this way because I can find people in San Diego that don't want their nationality to be Americans. They really are not true immigrats, they want to someday go home or bring their home here.

Keep up the fight for good.