Listening with one ear to Lou Dobbs’ show last night (sorry! sorry!) while trying to finish a book review, I heard someone or other make a point that got me thinking the following: The old 1924 Act “national origins” quota system, spoken of with such fierce abhorrence by the apologists for “comprehensive immigration reform” is in fact being reborn before our eyes.

We have, by default, a very pronounced “national origins” quota system–one that hugely favors immigrants from the nations to our immediate south, and correspondingly disfavors all other nations.

Perhaps someone should pose the following question to supporters of the recent Senate bill–people like… oh, no-one comes to mind just now.

How would you feel about a bill that permitted the immigration of a million people each from China, Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria, the Phillipines, etc., etc., but stopped all immigration from Latin America in the interests of DIVERSITY. You OK with that? If not, why not?