Reply #2: Excellent article, thanks! [View All]

The immigration policies of this country are especially troubling. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people (including some here at DU) who will start screaming that you're a bigot if you want immigration to be scaled back. The problem really is that having a policy that seeks to continue the current pace of immigration is like having a turbocharger mounted on the collection of problems we already have.
Oh, and for the inevitable comeback: sure, I'm descended from immigrants (and from native Americans, too). But that doesn't mean that we have to commit ecological suicide. And there really isn't that much hypocrisy attaching to this. History has always belonged to those who got there first. I'm not at all a xenophobe, but if 300 million people running amok is bad, how would it improve things to have 400 million?
Waiting for the day when the jet skiers are tooling up & down Miami's streets...