I know many of us already stress the important distinction between immigration and illegal immigration, but the points below from Hanson are worth repeating. To read his entire article (entitled: What Went Wrong? Well, it wasn’t conservatism) click on below link:
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Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
November 21, 2008

Automatic Mexican-American support for open borders is simply not a given. Why wouldn’t Hispanic citizens bristle should a freighter beach on the coast of Northern California each day, to unload 1,000 illegal Chinese would-be immigrants? Given historical and present geographical realities, existing levels of legal immigration already privilege Hispanics over all other groups of immigrants. Conservative should emphasize and welcome that mostly neglected fact.

Legal immigration must be distinguished from illegal immigration at every juncture. [b]It is no surprise that La Raza, the Democratic Left, and the cheap-labor, open-borders Right always make charges of “anti-immigrantâ€