text: Lastly, I humbly say that I think your heart is in the right place, but your solution is not.  What America may need to do is send more workers to the places who need us.  The Jesuit Refugee Service is devoted to helping refugees all over the world.  (I applied a few years back, but they wouldn't take me.  Too old, and I suspect they don't like conservative ex-prosecutors.)  Or maybe go with a church group that does charitable work in foreign countries.  The Mormons do incredible work in Africa.  Or go on your own!  My plumber, a poor man himself (at $60/hr???), goes to either Haiti or the Dominican Republic every summer, not to lie in the sun, but to be among the poor and help them with whatever they need.  He loves the people.  This man is a marvel, the very model of Christ.  I envy him.  But we can do these things for the foreign poor without jeopardizing our country, which we have already done by our divisive approach to immigration.