Part of the reason for writing a blog is that it helps a person think things through. The process of looking at the numbers carefully for my blog post of 6/1 has caused me to think that we should be letting in more people legally. Not as many as the open borders lobby wants, but I could see upping the average number from 977,000 to 1.1 million- contemporaneous with strict enforcement of the immigration laws.

We do allow in a reasonable number of people legally, but we should allow in more, LEGALLY. However, that is no reason to allow those who have broken the law to stay in this country, to break the law by hiring persons illegally present in this country, or to stand by while it is broken.

People may think it "makes sense" to allow the lawbreakers to stay here, but these are people who have intentionally violated the reasonable laws of our republic. In the past, people have broken the laws of their countries of origin to escape from their and get here. But we have not had people breaking the laws of our country to enter it. It is totally unacceptable to enter a republic by breaking its reasonable and duly enacted laws. It shows such a person is totally unfit to be a part of that republic. Such a person is a cancerous tumor in the body politic- if their scofflaw attitude spreads, all law is in jeopardy. For this reason, even if illegal immigrants are somehow allowed to stay, I would be adamantly opposed to any path to citizenship.