David, my trajectory in getting to immigration was the same as yours. (And FAIR was founded by environmentalists, with the same motive.)

But I disagree with you in one respect: It’s mass immigration in toto — both illegal AND LEGAL — that is the existential threat to the American future.

Illegal immigration itself is “just” an epi-phenomenon, made possible by the underlying disaster, which is essentially-out-of-control LEGAL immigration.

Mark Krikorian’s article “Legal Good / Illegal bad? Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” deals with this memorably: http://www.nationalreview.com/node/221145/print

Why should the US continue to allow absurdly high levels of migration when there are essentially two immigrants for every new job that is created?

http://cis.org/for-every-new-job-two-new-immigrants

Why should Americans allow illegal immigration – and mass legal immigration – to continue unfettered when there is so much crime (often unreported by the corporate media) associated with this large influx of foreign nationals?

http://cis.org/node/530

http://cis.org/immigration-nyt

James, you and other open borders proponents need to realize that America is at a point where it can no longer afford to accommodate the masses of the world who want to come here – legally or illegally – for a better life.

Cut and pasting the same thing to different posts shows you have no arguments.

I can see that you have a large misconception of the so called immagration “problem “, we not only are a nation that Is founded on amnesty for people persecuted for whatever reason but you forget also that anyone who travels a great distance where a differ language is spoken to better the lives of themselves and possibly family. Those are exceptional ones that we want here they are not looking for handouts they want the opportunity that we as Americans often take for granted to the point where we blame social and economic problems on the undeserving. This is not the first time in history this has happened WWII to just name a clear well

He may be using different techniques than his predecessors, but the intent remains the same: To permanently overpopulate the US to satisfy the outlandish greed of the Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Agri-business, Food Service, Privatized Prison firms, and other corporate interests who have essentially bought out both political parties and have transformed America into a 21st century Oligarchy.

Perhaps Americans should adopt a “scorched earth” strategy in which we make life miserable for the foreign nationals as well as politicians, lobbyists, and executives who insist on bringing them over here.

“… they are using the next two years to cement in place policies and practices that have rendered ICE and the Border Patrol useless…”

We don’t need Sequestration to shut down ICE and the Border Patrol…..we have the open border anarchists doing that and still paying them not to perform.