Congratulations! Yet again, the tossintaliban has managed to fog up the thread and befuddle you with half-truths, misinformation, and empty lawyerism, while gradually pushing aside the real issues of national interests and policy-making. That's just priceless.
Guess what, if it is good for the country, we should change our laws, including making an amendment to the Constitution to close a loophole that has been more used than a Tijuana whore. We as a society and a nation should decide what is good for us, and keep our eyes on that target. We owe nothing to the outside world; neither are we responsible for its welfare or problems. If we let anyone inside the country, it should only be if and because it is good for us. Importing massive amounts of poverty, criminality, ignorance, and hostile foreign cultural influence is idiotic to the extreme, and only justifiable in the eyes of select few that have their own agendas completely misaligned with ours as a nation.
Those of you who believe in open borders and misguided humanitarianism, run us through a simple scenario. What are you going to do if squatters break into your house through the back door, crap in your living room, demand a portion of your fridge, and tell you to buzz off because they have the right, as human beings, to have food and a roof over their heads. Maybe they will also say that your house is built on a land that belonged to their grandgrandwhateverfather, so they have the right to be in your house. So, let us know what you do then.
Gewehr, I am still waiting for a clear explanation as to why shooting coyotes dead is such a horrible idea. We shoot enemies attacking our troops in Iraq. I am certain our intelligence services have offed quite a few "hostiles" over the years. Coyotes are doing real damage to our national interests, so I do not see why we cannot put them in the same basket. Come to think of it, drug-traffickers should end up with a 9mm aeration port as well - they are killing American citizens by poisoning. Traitors, mind you, are in a different category since they are American citizens, so the parallel does not hold.
Fistful, I am all for trying, convicting, sentencing, and executing traitors. We should start with most folks in Congress, especially on the Dem side.
Rabbi, as a sovereign nation, we have the right and duty to control our borders and choose whom, how many, and when to admit through our front door. If we choose to limit immigrants to English-speakers of a certain educational and property level, then it is our right to do that.