Your comments are apropos to the Hispanic dilemma in our nation. What is discouraging is that the Hispanic groups are not vocal enough to submit solutions that embrace the true value of conservative values.Instead, according to many Hispanic groups, the solution is for federal laws supporting immigration needs that are not in favor of foreign workers. What is needed, it seems to me, is for Hispanic groups to offer solutions to the immigration problems of the nation instead of demanding that the federal government enact rules for the solution of the problems.

Even Hispanics don't want amnesty. Anyone being honest realizes it rewards lawbreaking, and encourages massive continued illegal aliens.

Hispanics are overwhelmingly Democrat. They are conservative in values. They will always vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

We need to require state and local government to enforce immigration laws, instead of aiding and abetting. We need to crack down on businesses. It wouldn't take much for them to get the message and stop employing illegal. They are devastating construction employment of Americans.

We should beef up E-Verify to make it less porous, and to make use mandatory for all employers.

Glad to hear mention of immigration in this time of high unemployment. It is a castastrophe of 1.6 million new legal workers every year. The policy is insanely stupid.

It is time for the US to stop chain migration, aimed to please immigrant families but does nothing to benefit the US.

It is time to reduce the numbers coming in from millions per year to about 1/4 million. The US is growing way too fast, and the infrastructure cost is gigantic. We have grown 50% since 1970, and it looks like another 50% to 2050. That's crazy stupid.

Illegal alien criminal gang membership should be in itself a crime. We need to find a nice desert island for them, and plentiful life sentences. Those people are criminal parasites feeding on decent Americans, allowed by our lame government.

The tremendous influx of illegals into this country are having horrible consequences--California, for example, is bankrupt as are many of the hospitals that are having to close.. Every California family pays $1400 a year to suppport all the social programs and needs of the illegals...still it is not enough. A new school needs to open every day due to the needs of illegals' children. Their graduation rate from high school is dismal. They need to go back.We cannot afford them..It is bankrupting our country and putting our own citizens in danger from the many criminals who have sneaked in. If they are made legal, they get to bring millions more of their relatives in also.They are and will be taking jobs our own citizens desparately need. I say go back home and wait your turn. Stop bankrupting the U>S.

"True conservatism trusts individuals and the free market to make better decisions than government bureaucrats."

Somebody might want to tell that to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS and the clowns writing for the NY Times and WaPo. They seem to think Conservatives want every non-white worker in America rounded up and shot.

Frankly, I don't know ANY Conservatives who oppose LEGAL immigration. I've never even heard of one.

But what I have heard is that Leftist groups lobbying for various immigration reform measures are pushing for everything from amnesty to massive federal ID programs that would do little to stop illegal immigration but would place a serious burden on every American citizen and every American business. In fact, their proposals are uniformly harmful, such that one begins to wonder if their intentions have nothing at all to do with immigration and everything to do with an anti-American agenda to stifle our economy.

All of that is totally pointless because immigration isn't that complicated. I heard a speaker who described a newly-arrived immigrant who got a minimum-wage job at a factory. The man seemed happy since the pay rate was still much higher than he could earn in Mexico. Several months later the speaker visited the same factory and asked to speak the immigrant again. This time, the immigrant told a very different story. During the intervening weeks, he had been doing menial jobs, but noticed the company paid a premium for contract maintenance on their forklifts. The immigrant had years of experience with jackleg repairs on lots of different machinery -- he could fix almost anything. He offered his bosses a way to save a lot of money on repairs. So now instead of earning minimum wage, he was making $22/hr. The best part, said the immigrant, was that now he did not need to stay at the factory if he became unhappy there; he could make $22/hr anywhere.

That's immigration. Conservatives LOVE stories like that because that's how we see the American Dream. You come to America, work hard and move up. You don't stay in a menial position for low pay very long. In a few years you're assimilated and maybe you can open your own business. That's what we Conservatives call SUCCESS.

Leftist groups would view the immigrant as a victim, offer him welfare and food stamps, maybe some basic education in Spanish, and he'd be working right around minimum wage all his life because he'd have no incentive to better himself. Years after coming here, ESL programs would insure his English was just as bad as when he arrived.

Yet the Left and the media demonizes Conservatives as the bad guys in the immigration debate. They're pretty good at it too. But who does more good for more immigrants -- and for America?