>I didn't get the same 'read' you did of that letter at all.
That's because the facts were cherrypicked and laid out to support the thesis, which is "illegal immigrants are sucking us dry - look what happened to Denmark". Except that Denmark probably had about ten times more benefits for anyone and twenty times easier immigration laws than the US, to the point where the two situations are incomparable.
And, oh, BTW - I wish someone would explain to me why Sharia in an European country would be bad?