I agree -- no sense in tossing out that baby with the bath water

[alfreda89]

Overall, it's one thing we do correctly. I was shocked when I discovered that France, Denmark, Germany -- none of them allow the children of immigrants to be citizens, never mind the immigrants themselves earning citizenship. I suppose it's interesting that I was shocked -- it never occurred to me that it would be different. (Do we then call Britain the "British Paradox" in that they have home-grown Brits of recent immigrant descent blowing themselves up? Were those young men a month or so back Brits, or multi-generational guest workers?)


"Compared with every other country in the world, America does immigration superbly. Do we really want to junk that for the French approach?"

-- Fareed Zakaria, columnist for The Washington Post


To Become An American

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/03/AR2006040301621.html