Reply #8: " We need these people. We benefit on balance from having them here."

[The Green Manalishi]

*THAT* is the debate worth having. Not what should we call them.
Do we benefit, on balance? Is it "racist" to just flat out say THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE HERE, period, regardless of their ethnicity, language or work ethic? California has many millions of people too many for the infrastructure; that's not being a racist - a misanthrope perhaps - we don't need *ANY* more, regardless of where they are from. We actually need to figure out how to create jobs and provide schools and fresh water for those who are HERE. If this means that people in other countries have to rise up and change their governments then THAT is what our foreign aid dollars should be going for, not 'nation building' thousands of miles away where we are hated anyway.