Why is it so hard for so many people to understand the difference between the illegal immigrants of today and our grandparents, for example?  There is a web site, www.ellisisland.org, where I can look up my grandfather and grandmother and find the boat on which they entered this country.  I can see the typed registry indicating their destination.  I can even see a picture of the boat.  Their first relationship with this country was not a violation of our laws.  They applied for immigration and followed the procedures. 

Mark Steyn has a column about Jose Carranza, the Peruvian illegal who murdered three New Jersey citizens - Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey and Tarrence Aeriel - and the current double standard on illegal immigration:

   "America has a high murder rate: Murdering people is definitely one of the jobs Americans can do. But that's what ties young (John Lee) Malvo to Jose Carranza: He's just another killer let loose in this country to kill Americans by the bureaucracy's boundless sensitivity toward the "undocumented." Will the Newark murders change anything? Will there be an Ioefemi Hightower Act of Congress like the Matthew Shepard Act passed by the House of Representatives? No. Three thousand people died Sept. 11, 2001, in an act of murder facilitated by the illegal-immigration support structures in this country, and, if that didn't rouse Americans to action, another trio of victims seems unlikely to tip the scales."

Thanks, David.