Another is to encourage hard-working young immigrants to settle here, bringing down the average age and boosting our tax intake.

"But what's scary is they're not making the distinction between terrorists and hard-working immigrants who are just trying to make a life here."

His parents, hard-working Polish immigrants who lavished attention on him, taught him to never buy on credit.

"It is unfair that hard-working immigrants should be denied help from the government if they need it," he said.

These were both about the same size as Roseto, and populated with the same kind of hard-working European immigrants.

Gone are the lofty words from Mr. Bush about how hard-working immigrants seeking a better life should be given a chance.

Some are hard-working immigrants whose faces loomed close to Mr. Kitajima's lens as they hurried along the street.

So many hard-working immigrants are struggling to survive in America.

"But it does nothing to place hard-working immigrants on a path to citizenship and would create a permanent underclass of service workers with second-class status."

It is not clear what will happen to the survivors, many of them hard-working undocumented immigrants; all are now homeless.