Link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/30/immigration_isnt_the_problem_105381.html

This is EXACTLY how I feel about this topic. I, too, favor greater enforcement of the border and harsher penalties for those found here illegally. And I, too, favor greater legal immigration. These two statements are inconsistent only to emotionally-driven simple-minded people who have no capacity for rational thought. One very good point Harsanyi makes that I’d like to highlight:

There are, on one noisy periphery, those who yell “Nazi” or “racist” at any sign of enforcement. In truth, many of these folks don’t believe any person can be here illegally; to them, the very existence of a border is xenophobic and an affront to human rights.

This is absolutely the case. These people hide behind “racial profiling” and other scare tactics. But what they feel is that unfettered immigration is a human right (perhaps this is true, perhaps not) and that those who break immigration laws are thus not lawbreakers (absolutely untrue). They do not respect the political process but think they are right and anything they do to resist the law is permissible.