Our immigration system is broken precisely BECAUSE we do not allow these 1 million immigrants to come here legally.

Jobs belong to the employer, not to the worker. And the employer has the individual right (not always protected) to hire whomever he pleases. This includes the right to hire immigrants, legal or otherwise. I have no greater right to a job on account of my legal residence than does an illegal resident. Furthermore, every immigrant, legal or not, has a mouth as well as two hands. The idea that immigrants take jobs 'belonging' to Americans is boloney, both morally and factually.

And we Alabamans also lost our tomato and other crops because they rotted in the fields when no 'legal' Alabamans could be persuaded to replace the lost Latino workers.

Put me down as another Republican who supports the individual rights of so-called "illegals." They are illegal solely because of immoral immigration restrictions. The Republican Party is definitely on the wrong side of the immigration issue. If you support individual rights, then you should oppose immigration quotas. If you do not support individual rights, then you belong in the Democratic Party.

This writer seems not to realize that the Tea Party is a coalition of Christian conservatives and so-called 'libertarians." Some of us Tea Party supporters are pro-choice, pro open immigration, pro gay marriage, pro drug legalization. Many such as myself are also gay and atheists. What makes the coalition work is what we have in common--our pro-capitalism. If the Tea Party should ever come to power, it will be the task of its non-conservative members to convince its conservative members to rediscover the principle of individual rights and become pro-liberty.

This article is really out of place on a political website. Conservatives have lost the "gay rights" battle and need to accept that fact and move on to important issues such as returning the country to its constitutional roots and resurrecting a concern for protecting individual rights. Religion-based politics has had its day. Enough already! While arguing over religion-based political issues, conservatives have allowed this country to approach a disastrous state of increasingly intrusive, abusive and fiscally irresponsible government. Leave religion to the preachers and get back to the task of bailing out our rapidly sinking ship.

Requiring a valid SS number to get a child credit is a sensible first step. But the best solution is to limit any tax refund to the amount of taxes actually paid, whether the worker is in the country legally or not. And the long-term solution to the illegal immigrant problem is to make foreign workers legal again. All the current problems can be traced back to the elimination of the Bracero program. Millions of Mexican green card holders crossed the border back and forth under that program. They came to pick crops and do day labor and went back home to their families when there was no work. When the program ended after working perfectly for over 30 years, millions of Mexican families were left with no livelihood. You know the rest.