Here’s an excellent analysis of the Tea Party from William Galston, a liberal thinker who writes for the Wall Street Journal:
The Tea Party and the GOP Crackup
For all my differences with the Tea Party, I would find them easier to like were it not for their stand on immigration. The position is not part of the Tea Party’s core set of beliefs, and it only hurts their ability to advance their core beliefs. The core beliefs are lower taxes, lower spending, and less government power. Taking a position about how many people we permit to cross the border with Mexico is irrelevant to those aims. Positions on abortion and same-sex marriage are similarly irrelevant to their core aims.

Tea Party protest
Here’s a simple example that grows from Galston’s analysis in the latter part of the article. Certainly we have many Latino small business owners who see why Tea Party policies would benefit them. Like small business owners everywhere, they need lower taxes and fewer regulations, especially fewer requirements that come with hiring employees. Yet the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party alienates them completely with its stupid stand on immigration. It’s not just a stand on immigration policy, either: it is overtly prejudicial toward people who were not born here.
Romney missed a big chance to take his party in another direction, but he had his own reasons for spouting the standard anti-immigrant arguments. What a wasted opportunity.
You forgot something…The “Forgotten Ameican citizen & legal visa seekers” in your immigration article….are the 10million “legal visa seekers.”
Our current wait …for petitioned family members who are over 21 is –20 yr+
Our family members in twenties are teachers/ engineers/ nursing grads from college.
Recent brother in law arrived 21.5 yrs after first petition. We are US sponsors who
reapply and pay fees every 3 years. In all these years ..the US has allowed
cartel members/lettuce pickers and uneducated — illegals [line cutters} invade.
Brother in law is electrical engineer …worked all over the world …but could not jump
the line. Hence the USA has lost his work product..skills…failed to collect taxes…
He has US job $100 K electrical engr in NY….in 60days.
” Forgotten Man” issue …. conflicts with most academics who…don’t even
think of this parameter.
Illegal Immigration / Immigration today …is not 1910 immigration.
Workers don’t get off the boat ….get a job…and start the American dream.
Instead…they are met by Federal State and Local assistance /welfare/ housing
assistance/ free medical .
Immigration can no longer be viewed romantically thru rose colored glasses.
It is a ” giant hole to pour $$ into.”
So…. we call on you to “remember the Forgotten -visa seekers & your fellow
citizens” …
Immigration 1910 is not the same.