I’m keeping my blog over at http://jim.casablog.com/ now, though. That essay is superseded by a slightly edited version that removes some of that extraneous first paragraph. My writer friends thought the galaxy far far way reference was distracting.

Anyway, it’s here now:

http://jim.casablog.com/2006/04/28/my-fellow-americans/

I have meant to write a follow up on it a little bit. Under intense scrutiny by some of my smart friends, I see that “UNLIMITED” immigration might have some drawbacks, or at least an immigration rate that exceeds our ability to acculturate them (not necessarily assimilate). Living as I do in the quasi third world, I can easily see how a critical mass of like minded immigrants can wind up in the same barrio or ghetto that they left, that they tried to get away from, and doom them to more of the same.