When did you get elected to speak for the American people?
In actuality, the issue barely registers a bleep on the radar of electoral issues, never has.
I'm just relaying the feelings of the consistent 70-75% of Americans who in poll after poll express their opinions on the subject of illegal immigration by saying yes to improved border security, yes to improved interior enforcement of our immigration laws, and yes to cracking down on employers who hire illegal aliens.
In actuality, the issue barely registers a bleep on the radar of electoral issues, never has.
The subject of illegal immigration is integrated into many other issues. Illegal immigration affects jobs, public school overcrowding/student performance, pollution/enviormental issues, medical costs, hospital emergency room overcrowding/closures, housing, crime/jails, entitlement costs, etc.
You stop anybody on the street and ask them what's more important to them: keeping their job or having our government round up illegal aliens. I'd estimate about 99.9% of the people you ask would say keeping their job is more important to them, as it should be. Americans tend to place more importance on issues that affect them directly as opposed to issues that affect the country as a whole.
Americans are sick of paying for illegals. If you want them here, you can start paying for it out of your own pocker, and take in the 13 million of them living in this country into your own home.
So the CA's passing of Proposition 187 several years ago doesn't even count for a 'blip on the radar?" This proposition restricted state services for persons who entered the state illegally. It has been held up and nullified through various court cases, but this was more than a 'blip' on the radar.
How about the recent proposition which passed requiring English Immersion in the schools, resulting in a shift away from bilingual education? Was that not a blip? Was that not unrelated to illegal immigration?
How about the role the "illegal immigrant driver's license bill" had here in the recall of Governor Davis and the protests and petitions last year on both sides of this issue?
Are none of these a "bleep on the radar?"
I see where your attitude is coming from. If I lived in Fall River or New Bedford, surrounded by illegals from Ireland, I guess I'd think like you.
Exactly.
In California, the issue registers with a HELL of a lot of people.
Wait until more and more states deal with spending billions of dollars on these people. Then they'll understand, only I wish it wouldn't come to that point.