General Discussion

And that's the only way it can be. If we blur that bright line definition, we become ungovernable and damage the lives of our fellow citizens.

As a liberal and a Democrat, I am for a legal immigration that respects the lives of our current citizenry. Not including the well-being of our fellow citizens in our thinking would be cruel to them and would be both unfair and deeply illiberal.

It isn't often mentioned, but it goes without saying that our country has a duty to its citizens to be choosy about who we allow in. The homeless person on the corner, a citizen who needs a home, should be able to assume that any immigrant we take in will be the kind of immigrant who will live in one home and create two more. We owe it to our fellow Americans to be mathematical, because that's how you're kind.