Every poor soul who has found himself in a 3rd world country gene pool

Shorter David Brooks, "Pass the Bill", New York Times, July 12, 2013:

"I don't always support Democrat legislation, but when I do, there's usually something in it for people who employ gardeners."

Image from Culture Lust. There's a video there, too.

One of Brooks's commenters, from New Jersey, writes:

"Tragedy for the country" How is not allowing indiscriminately every poor soul who has found himself in a 3rd world country gene pool to come to the US a tragedy? The tragedy is seeing that people liek the author just have no concept of "country". If all the world is invited to repopulate America, there would only be one huge flea market here with 30 languages and an indefinable character. A Moroccan bazaar. The left has a problem with just saying "No". That's the only tragedy.

Again, an embarrassment: I too think House Republicans should vote for the Senate immigration bill, though I, too, think there are a lot of things wrong with it. What I mainly think is wrong is not what Brooks thinks is wrong, of course. I'm sure the secure-the-border provisions are a waste of money, in that the border is already as secure as it's ever going to be, but then you could think of it as a kind of stimulus (no doubt Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee and other states of dubious border status will pick up some of the funding). I assume the expanded guest worker provisions for low-skill and agricultural workers are for employers to avoid paying minimum wage, as they always are. They won't be allowed into Obamacare, in any case. But it's like the Affordable Care Act: passing it would improve a great many people's lives, whatever gene pool they've been swimming in, immediately, in a way there's no other prospect of doing; and once it's there, it can always be made better.