...round up all of the illegal residents today and ship them home, crack down hard at the borders, and promise to do both again and again forever. ...find a way to ease the path toward citizenship for current residents, establish generous rules for entry into the U.S., and be willing to load anyone who doesn't follow those rules into a bus and ship them home. The Frist approach resembles neither. The Specter approach resembles the latter, and is the far better policy. ...America will be shooting itself in the foot if Specter loses this battle.

I never even mentioned any of that, just that the comment in the post, and for that matter in various other media and blogs, was that Bush has reached a new low. Now that isn't true unless the previous poll was wrong, or unless you specify the variation.... Pardon me for laughing..

Why not? Is their work any less valuable or productive than anyone elses?

    Imagine, for a moment, a future in which America becomes like Kuwait or Dubai, a country where a large fraction of the work force consists of illegal immigrants or foreigners on temporary visas - and neither group has the right to vote. Surely this would be a betrayal of our democratic ideals, of government of the people, by the people. Moreover, a political system in which many workers don't count is likely to ignore workers' interests: it's likely to have a weak social safety net and to spend too little on services like health care and education.