1.   Asked why the panel recommended the cuts, Jordan said that some legal immigrants are using public services disproportionately and that some are depriving American workers of jobs.

2.   Agents are posted in the airport and bus station and along highways, he said, for the obvious reason that those are the routes that illegal immigrants use.

3.   Ethnic solidarity, the traditional wedge that immigrants used to clear a space for themselves to become Americans, is now celebrated for its own sake.

4.   Further, understanding how immigrants use alternative centers helps doctors better treat patients who do not share their language and culture.

5.   Immigrants use public benefits truly in a transitional way.

6.   Immigrants used to be rare and unwelcome.

7.   Immigrants can use the growing number of Internet search engines for sites by ethnic groups devoted to the particular cultural and legal needs of new Americans.

8.   Now they are complaining that those immigrants are using public funds to be treated in hospitals, send children to school and serve time in jails.

9.   Opponents say illegal immigrants could use a license to access other services.

10.   Opponents worry that illegal immigrants would use licenses to access services to which they are not entitled.