Questions and Observations: Something to Offend Everyone

1. A question for those who want no measures strong enough to actually stop illegal immigrants from coming across the southern border and no serious attempts to make them leave once they're here: If you want a completely open border, please say so. And also, do you want to stop screening people who want to come here from places other than Latin America? If not, why not? You don't like Romanians or Nepalese? And there are Iraqis, who, having served us as translators, are trying to come here for their own safety. And they are mired in months and years of red tape.
So hey, if you think people should be able to move freely around the globe and settle anywhere they want without restriction, let's talk. Certainly the nation-state with controlled, well-defined borders has caused a lot of mischief in the world.

2. I heard a discussion today of a report by, I think, the Pew Research Center, that talked about "unauthorized" immigrants rather than "undocumented" or "illegal" immigrants. An effort to find a term that UnAmerican one-worlders and hateful nativist bigots can agree on?


3. Do you think the Arizona legislature should pass a resolution encouraging the President and Congress to maintain the weakness of the economy, since that's been our most effective tool in slowing illegal immigration?