Our immigration policy should be based on enhancing our national interest. There are hundreds of millions of people on this planet who would love to live in this country. We can afford to be very choosy about who we let into this country, and we should be. We need a high-skills, high-education citizenry if we're to remain globally competitive and preserve a functioning democracy, rule of law, and all those other things we like. Anybody who would suggest that bringing in 12-15 million illiterate peasants from Mexico and Central America would somehow enhance our national interest would be looked at as if he had a hole in his head.
In a way, I'm less concerned about the illegals themselves than their children. Hispanics have the highest dropout rate of any group in the population, and even those who do stay in school don't do particularly well. The last thing we need in this country is a second underclass. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If we had 12-15 million illegal Chinese immigrants in this country, but their kids were getting straight A's and winning science scholarships, nobody would care.
Hillary, on the other hand, at least in her public remarks, seems to make no distinction whatever between legal and illegal immigrants. She just refers to them all as 'immigrants.' What are we to make of this? Of course, no journalist ever asks her that rude question. Does this mean that as President she would have no intention of enforcing our immigration laws at all? Just take on all comers? Our crack media investigators really need to pin her down on this. But don't hold your breath.
