Your article is too full of sense, Henryk.

It's a selling job as much as anything else. It's interesting that those that fear immigrants the most have the least contact with them.

"New York? Well, don't go wandering into Central Park -- your life will be taken away" advised my New Zealand friend, who had only journeyed as far as Sydney. I learnt later that Central Park was the safest precinct in Manhattan.

Immigration is problematic because the rules a made at a Federal level and way too detached at what's happening at the local. For five years we had "Blanca" from Ecuador looking after my elderly mother. It was a big financial relief to us and she was able to send good money back home to her family (Dave Volek, would have me taken away in chains).

What I'm suggesting is that if can get immigration decisions to family, community, town levels then more sense would prevail (sanctuary cities already muscle some decision making away from Washington). There are many towns across the country that yearn for new people to tend their hedges, straighten their old computers and fill their shops with customers. Surely the mechanics of this can be worked out.