at all with legal immigration. the whole debate was about illegal immigration and was a legitimate debate. now the right wing is trying to gettous rewrite that 1965 act, take us back to 1920s and really impinge on american dream, which is what family reunification is. so it s apples to oranges what jonathan says in terms of what happened. 50% are on some form of welfare. when you re talking about a massive expanse of the welfare state where you have immigrants getting taxpayers tuition for children, it s a different system compared to when a lot of people came over with ellis islands. you can t say apples to oranges talking about immigration. it s a great starting point what the president has proposed. a lot of people in his base are