Talk about obnoxious...

[Lissa]

Actually, the author is partially right on that last sentense. The US does need immigrants, be they legal or illegal, as the US is presently in a population shortfall. People have projected that the US is short about 37 or so million people from being able to keep things like Social Security up and solvent. If you look at the statistics right now, the US has a birth rate of about 2.4 which barely keeps the population from decreasing. As such, the US does need the tax base from those missing 37 million and the only place we're going to get it from is immigrants as our birth rate is not high enough to make up that shortfall.