John Has It About Right, But Misses Something Big...

clipped from powerlineblog.com I am not an immigration absolutist. It may be that some importation of low-skilled workers is appropriate; possibly a guest worker program is a good idea. I have an open mind on these issues. But we need a full, open and thorough debate, not a bill that is cobbled together in secret and hustled through Congress by dead of night. And the various elements of immigration policy should be voted on separately, without the most obviously desirable changes behind held hostage to the most dubious.

I actually think that we'll need to ratchet up our immigration quotas substantially -- especially to take in the refugees as Europe starts to implode under pressure from the Islamists. My estimate for this ranges in the 0-15 year timeframe in fact. A truly major terror event in Europe without similar occurrence here could cause an immigration crisis in fact...