“The nation’s immigrant population grew by more than 11 million people in the 1990s, the highest increase in history, according to Census 2000 data released Tuesday,” the Houston Chronicle reports.

[…]Some economists say a growing immigrant population provides a growing labor market to offset the aging native-born population. But a number of political groups have formed in recent years under the belief that a growing immigrant population will lead to problems for America.

Me, I’m all for legal immigration. Come, share the land. Similarly, I’m all for fingerprinting and photographing visa visitors from terrorist states. Don’t like it? Go visit Belgium.

As Joel Goodson’s Dad so aptly put it, “My house, my rules.”

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