My response to Michelle urges Palin: Don?t campaign for McCain!. This response must have contained a "bad word" and was stopped by HotAir's comment software:

And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty

Nope. The amnesty is in no way "dangerous". And I'm proudly an "open borders" lobbyist -- like our First Republican, Abraham Lincoln.

Make them pay taxes. They want to work -- let them work and pay their fair share. That's the issue with illegals right now -- we've made them part of an underground economy.

Give them the path to citizenship. Make them wait enough time to prove that they can be productive and non-criminal citizens, and then allow them to swear allegiance to our country.

Again, the Republican words on the Statue of Liberty, which do not mention an expiration date:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

And these words from Abraham Lincoln:

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

If you examine history, the people who have been opposed to immigration have historically been so on racial and ethnic grounds, whether it was the Know-Nothings Lincoln mentions, or the Democrats trying to stop Chinese immigration under Chester Arthur.

My wife's family was split by the Democratically enacted Alien Exclusion Acts -- her grandfather was able to enter the United States, but her grandmother was not. That sort of experience (trying to prevent the procreation of certain races and ethnicities by prohibiting the importation of their females) has left a mark on our country, and it is not a good one.

Those Republicans, who have forgotten our heritage as a party committed to the natural rights of the individual, will be foresquare against any path to citizenship for those who entered our country illegally. As for the rest of us who do remember this heritage -- well, we're on the other side on this one.

This is how I stumbled on your website. I agree with you completely on this issue.

What literature about Lincoln do you recommend?
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