Part Four 837 words
The Recipe for Perfect Immigration Policy
Congress scattered the ingredients across several bills
We can register every illegal, secure our borders, reduce USCIS caseloads, and even fix Social Security, all without driving down wages, taking citizens' jobs, straining welfare, rolling up the welcome mat at the Statue of Liberty, or erasing "love thy neighbor as thyself" from the American character 

By Dave Leach (Dave Leach is listed in “Who’s Who in Media and Communications”. Contact: HispanicHope@Saltshaker.US.
Translation into Spanish by Gabriela G. Buenrostro, former newspaper and magazine journalist and writer, and former host Zero Radio Show in Mexico City. (Write to her at Gabriela@Saltshaker.US)
Part Four: What DOES keep us free and prosperous?
As President Bush pointed out in his January 26, 2005 press conference, when asked about the quality of Democracy we should expect in Arab countries compared with our own, democracy is a work in progress. We say that all men are created equal, but even our own country didn't do that for a century. He referred of course to the blacks we enslaved until 1864. He could have mentioned the 50 million unborn babies we have recently slain by abortion, or the millions of "illegal" Hispanics whose "crime" is trying to do an honest day's work. But we are humans. Give us time, and help.
It is not Americans who deserve the honor for being the freest, most prosperous nation in the world today. It is God, for giving us principles which are so beneficial that we have reached this happy condition even though we only partly obey them.
We are free because our Constitution protects "equality under God". We are prosperous because the principle of "love your neighbor as yourself", even when it is costly, infuses our very economy.
Americans admire businessmen who are more helpful than the love of money can account for, even after "service" becomes costly. Ruthlessness must hide, in America, or draw public contempt. Service is what oils the wheels of commerce. People want to buy where they are served.
Service if one of the pillars of our politics, as well as our prosperity. We even call our leaders "public servants". We remove those who serve us poorly, when enough of us find out. It has not always been so, in other times and places. These expectations draw out better character in our leaders, which keeps us free. (See "American Individualism" by President Herbert Hoover.)
Because not everyone understands the connection between our form of government, and our freedom and prosperity, it should be no surprise that an ignorant few imagine we are just lucky, or our land has more resources or something, so it would be only fair if Mexico could take all that wealth back. It should be no wonder that occasional voices within the Mexican government are tempted to encourage such ignorance, in order to turn Mexican scrutiny away from their own corrupt bureaucracy which has created the poverty from which their own citizens flee!
But most Hispanics, despite the featuring, on every anti-immigrant video, of the movement to have Mexico annex the American Southwest, understand that would only make the Southwest as poor and corrupt as Mexico. Where people understand the connection between our form of government, and our freedom and prosperity, people understand that no government can rule a service-oriented, informed population; but rather such a population will rule its government.
Ignorance, such as that bred by shoving 10 million undocumented immigrants into the shadows away from American life, prosperity and politics, invites confrontation between America and militant Hispanics who do not understand the prosperity they want to seize. But not just the ignorance of militant Hispanics. The American Character is not modeled well by those who really think an honest day's work ought ever be considered, in America, "illegal".
Hispanic workers are no threat to America, but ignorance is. Ignorance is nurtured by the status quo, which critics of reform perpetuate. Much criticism of reform assumes any reform will only bring more Hispanics here who don't know English, and who don't understand the connection between our form of government, and the freedom and prosperity which has drawn them away from their home countries. We have the opportunity for an immigration policy which will create strong incentives to understand the pillars of our freedom and prosperity.
The movement to have Mexico annex the American Southwest, featured in every anti-immigration video, is about as serious as the "movement" in Texas to secede from the United States and make Texas an independent Republic again! Most Hispanics aren't ignorant enough to imagine they would be better off with Mexico City in charge of California. "They know that if that happened, they would just have to move from California into Montana", said Des Moines immigration attorney Michael Said. "The reality is the opposite. Most Hispanics would like to have the United States annex Mexico!"
Next Week: “Quotas” should be replaced with “Criteria”; we should welcome not just an arbitrary number, but the best.