"For those who wish to become citizens, we should require them to pay a penalty and pay taxes, learn English, go to the back of the line behind those who played by the rules.
VOA: standard.2009.06.19
While we were cramming to learnEnglish or Mandarin, we forgot to learn the vocabulary of the foreign language of our feelings.
And as long as worker protections are in place for both US workers and these folks that are coming, it makes a lot more sense that they come through legal channels so that we know who they are so that they can be taxed so that we can require them to learnEnglish and adopt American values.