Stein's group favors a limit of 200,000 newcomers per year, but he said there is little chance of lawmakers backing that goal anytime soon. Republican leaders have endorsed a steady flow of legal immigrants as good for business. Most Democrats, meanwhile, support the flow of new immigrants to join their extended families here as a civil rights issue. Clinton, in his speech, noted that he was supporting legal immigration, not illegal immigration. It's wrong to condone illegal immigration that flouts our laws, strains our tolerance, taxes our resources.
Ethnic pride is a very good thing .
Around the world, we see what can happen when people who live on the same land put race and ethnicity before country and humanity. Times staff writer David G. Savage contributed to this story from Washington.