"President Bush's announcement is a historic beginning, truly not unlike Richard Nixon's trip to China. The White House initiative doesn't get everything right, and there is much work still to be done by both the administration and Congress. But the president has taken a critical first step and he deserves credit--both for taking on the broken status quo and for articulating a conservative case for change. What, after all, could be more conservative than encouraging the American Dream, rewarding work, restoring the rule of law and enhancing our security? "

Sorta . . . but I'm a big fan of immigration either way so. After all, when my family got here they were saying how the Italians were just going to come and steal everyone's jobs because they worked for nothing and were unamerican. We all know how much of a disaster those Italians were, they just wrecked the country. Yeah. Not gonna happen with the Mexicans either. I say, the more the merrier.

Of course we do have more of a welfare state now, but odds are it's gonna collapse anyway so why bother if this makes it go faster? It's a good incentive to make a new plan.