I will look up the George Borjas, Heather Mac Donald, and Ilana Mercer pieces.

It isn't a bribe. There has to be an immigration reform of some sort. The GOP, being a party of solid principles, should be the ones leading the way on this issue. An "enforcement-only" approach is neither realistic nor is it conservative. And couple such an approach with an inflammatory tone, then you got a perfect recipe for driving people away from the party... people who should be allies.

This approach of kicking people out and shutting the doors isn't conservative; like I quoted in another comment, Colorado Tea Party Leader Elliot Fladen put it this way, "The GOP which purports to be a free-market party, uses socialist criteria when screening immigrants."

Did you watch the video I posted in one of these comments? It's a great defense, in line w free market principles, for the type of reform we're advocating here.--
http://youtu.be/1tGO42FNX80

A more welcoming immigration policy would not only help to clean up the legal, bureaucratic mess that has become our immigration system, but it is an approach more consistent with free-market principles.

The Cato Institute has dedicated their entire Winter issue of their journal to this issue... I'm reading through it now. I'd recommend you do the same, to gain some perspective from an organization dedicated to liberty and free markets on the complex immigration situation we now find ourselves in:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj32n1/cj32n1.ht...

we don't seek any of those things. you're purposely misrepresenting our views.

not all regions of Latin America are the cess pools you describe (Chile and Costa Rica come to mind.) ... though there are certainly many more poorer regions there that exist there than exist in our part of the planet...

US Citizens can start having babies at record paces, but a cultural shift of that magnitude won't happen right away... a religious revival can definitely help in that direction and it is my prayer that we will see that in our lifetime.

But let me point out that many of the Italian, Irish, and Eastern European immigrants of old were treated with a lot of the same suspicion which you have expressed here Mairzdoats, yet after a generation or two, assimilation inevitably happens.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't be intentional and proactive about assimilation and insisting on English as the official language of the land. But I really don't think the worst-case scenarios of human hordes over-running out country should be front and center in our thinking about this issue. Because the realities of human migration dictate that waves of immigration don't continue indefinitely, and our own history of past immigration have shown a tendency toward assimilation in our culture. This short Michael Barone piece makes that case: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnis...

I'm a perfect example. I'm the first generation born here, yet I'm fluent in English, voted for Bush in '00 and '04 and Mc Cain in '08. I consider myself American. Not Salvadorean-American. And the only government assistance I've ever received was a school loan I eventually paid off, and the FHA program to purchase my first home (something many citizens use to buy their first homes) (and it wasn't exactly a handout. It's a loan I still have to pay back.).

and I know many like me. and I'm good at persuading. I can recruit more Latinos to become Republican. It's just easier to do so, when I don't have to defend some of the positions and rhetoric which has been expressed by some of the respondents here. Positions that aren't even always consistent with free-market principles....

anyway I'm rambling here... have a good night. thank you for reading our post :)

Yep. "the movement of labor among close geographical regions" ... that choice of words was intentional. it is meant to highlight the fact that people moving around to find work is as natural an occurrence as the wind.

proponents of free markets should be able to appreciate that, and seek to make our immigration laws more consistent with reality.

-Marvin