Peggy Noonan, June 2007
You know what I think is the American mood right now on immigration? ...
We're against gushing borders and illegal immigration, which is at this point even souring the general mood on legal immigration, because we don't trust our bureaucrats to let in the people America needs. We don't trust our bureaucrats and leaders to care a lot about America ...
We're asking for closed borders and pulling for newcomers ...
We should stop putting newcomers in constant jeopardy by blithely importing ever-newer immigrants who'll work for ever lower wages. The ones here will never get a sure foot on the next rung that way.
We should close the border, pause, absorb what we have, and set ourselves to "patriating" the newcomers who are here ...
Having no borders--that's radical ...
Leaving your country wide open in the age of terror is radical ...
Lawrence Auster's comments ...
The intensified opposition to illegal immigration sparked by President Bush's mad open-borders scheme is evolving into opposition to legal immigration itself ...
That America's own Songstress of the Open Border would speak this way signals a revolution in consciousness.
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