In contrast to Michelle's typically provocative images, Pajamas Media has some interesting photos and commentary up from yesterdays massive demonstrations. Being an Angeleno, I kind of wish I had been in Los Angeles myself yesterday. The fact that the free immigration community has been able to mobilize the kind of numbers they have(estimated at over a Million yesterday), is phenomenal. But the bottom line is that it is WRONG.

This is one subject where I stand shoulder to shoulder with some on the Right. THE LAW IS THE LAW. Change it, or obey it. Waving Che pictures and Mexican flags, is NOT the way to get the American people on your side. And immigration advocates may be creating a backlash that they will regret. I have a Latino soul. I went to school in East Los Angeles. My first love was an immigrant (illegal) from Mexico, and I live in a Latin American Country. It would be difficult to find someone as sympathetic to the plight of Latin American immigrants as myself, but there is a process and it must be obeyed!

The process to become a Costa Rican resident or citizen is just as difficult, if not more so, as the process for American residency or citizenship. As a guest in Costa Rica, I do not have the option to disobey Costa Rican law. It strikes me as insulting that so many people would long for the benefits of living in the United States and then so blatantly disregard our laws. I have neither the patience for it, nor compassion for such ideals. Baldilocks has a poll going about the issue. One commenter wrote:

Nobody seems to ask the obvious question:

How many workers - in various qualifications and skills - does our economy need?

If immigration quotas are set below that value, there will continue to be a problem with illegals.

Another relevant question: at what rate can we absorb and culturally assimilate people?

Bottom line: this is not, not NOT a question of "entitlements" or victimology politics. Every sovereign nation has the right - and in our days, the obligation - to regulate its borders.

There is no such thing as being too strict with those who infiltrate our border. They should receive no services, have no rights, and be deported.

On the other hand, immigration policy has to match the economic realities and allow the workers we need - whether they're Dutch computer programmers or Mexican cleaning ladies - to enter our country, and if they wish, become citizens.

That position most closely reflects my own. The problem lies in having a REAL immigration policy and enforcing it. We have neither a policy, nor enforcement. If we did, there would have been no march yesterday.

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