I don’t know if you noticed, Brittanicus, but this isn’t VDare and it isn’t Stormfront, though both those sites would be happy to have you.

And it is discouraging how weasely most Democrats are on immigration. They don’t understand that no one respects a weasel–the weasel policy actually hurts them with voters. If they stood up for the rights of immigrants and their citizen family members, they would do much better in the polls and have a more positive impact in the debate. As it is, they accomplish nothing and no one respects them.

Obama’s decision to cave to conservatives on the issue of healthcare for immigrants just shows that this is on the way to becoming a human rights issue.

Also, it is absolutely ludicrous to deny immigrants from BUYING health care with their own money. This is outrageous.

And it raises the stakes for passing immigration reform– big time.

The social and economic needs of other countries can’t be allowed to become yet another entitlement program in the U.S. We’re broke and we’re tired, too.

thank you for calling Democrats out as the party of “appeasement.” As Jimmy Carter spoke the truth the other day about the underlying racism of Wilson’s comment, the Huffington Post focused solely on the issue of black/white, Congress vs. President. But the real elephant in the room is “racism” (xenophobia) against immigrants. If the so-called liberals gloss over this crucial point and back down, they are doing a greater disservice to reform and real change in the U.S. than Republicans are.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is not just a nuisance. It’s part of the law that did away with slavery and (not enough of!) its aftereffects. It states that any child born in the U.S. to parents present and under jurisdiction of the U.S. is a citizen. That means the mother doesn’t have diplomatic immunity. If the child’s mother is subject to arrest, ironically, the kid’s a citizen.

If you worry that this will lead to instant naturalization of large numbers of the undocmented, then you don’t know very much about the naturalization process. Under present law, it would be a matter of around 25 to 30 years after the child’s birth before the mother could become a legal permanent resident, and 5 years more before she could apply for citizenship. Me, I’ve got more urgent things to worry about.

Now, as to the actual subject of the blog, which you never mentioned: It’s lamentable that Obama caved in to the forces of reaction and said that undocumented people wouldn’t be covered by his proposed plan. This is lousy public health policy, inter alia. The health debate is important. Wilson was rude. The derailing of the discussion is unfortunate. “Xicano” is right.

Now go crawl back under your rock.