Immigration sentiments

Here's a link to the Register's editorial that ran the day the Senate put the kibosh on the "comprehensive" immigration reform bill. The editorial gave it a lukewarm endorsement, but I can't say that I'm terribly unhappy that it didn't pass. I'd prefer a simpler approach -- getting rid of government-set quotas and have immigrants sign a promise not to appy for any government benefit until they's been in the country long enough to have contributed to the pot -- five years, ten years, 15, 20, whatever.