From: Ellen K. 

The border issue has a built-in divisiveness in that generally libertarian
types favor open immigration while the other flavor of Republicans (some
call them "authoritarian" but I bet they don't like that label)
would like to even reduce legal immigration and also go back to giving
preference to certain countries' nationals (which definitely would not
include any from the Western Hemisphere other than Canada).

Personally I am very concerned about the security issues of lax border
control (I'm sure plenty of Islamist militants are coming in from Mexico
because it's so easy to get in that way), but assuming that could be
separated (yes, I know, huge assumption), regarding immigration per se I
would like to be able to wave a magic wand and say anybody can come in but
they can't get any public benefits and (except for public school) neither
can their children below the age of majority.   IOW let in the
ones that want to work, BUT couple this with extensive security vetting.

Unfortunately it would really take a magic wand to accomplish that.
:(

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:24:27 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote in message :

>
>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:asp5m1l753qsstbceo4lafn6mf5i9h4h40{at}4ax.com...
>> Mr. "I'm a uniter, not a divider" is even dividing his
own party now.
>
>Hmm, Lott stands on his own two feet, you blame Bush for what he said and
>where he ended up? Sounds like "Bushdementia" to me.
>
>Too, I wouldn't risk too much money on that division bet John. Sure, some
>are pissed off at his lack of seriousness about the border (me for one),
>some others didn't like Miers (me too again), yet others have issues with
>him on this policy or that (me yet again, on a variety of issues), but
>never, *ever* confuse those disagreements by any of those groups with a
>fantasy that any of them would ever support a Democrat in an election agree that Bush thinking he could unite people like Kennedy, Durbin,
>Schumer, Daschle (whoops Reid) with anyone, anywhere, anytime was a foolish
>thought, they're not interested>
>

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