[Happy2BMe]

"America has become less of a middle-class nation because of the quadrupling of immigration since 1965. And it has become more of a society of wide economic disparities."

But what about the votes?

[Happy2BMe]

Mexican migrant workers oppose Bush immigration proposal

[WayneM]

But what about the other benefits of illegal immigration - even when they are illegal.

All the ESL teachers our local schools hire. We don't need music and art and gifted child programs, do we?

Besides - now that wages have been driven down, that means that those lazy housewives are somewhat forced to get out and work. Expands their view of the world, don't you think?
Who wants to stay home and take care of kids anyway?

[Henrietta]

Gee, and the immigration activists are always telling us that these immigrants only come to do the jobs that we won't do!

[MinuteGal]

Here's a slice of real life from yesterday. Florida central gulf coast. Hardly any big immigrant population here in this mostly tourist and retirement area.

Next door to my house, one boss and two workers repairing a sea wall and laying a large cement patio and a sidewalk. Local, educated, industrious white males.

They told me that they've always got good living wages for their jobs....now the cement layers all around here are being replaced one by one with imported immigrants, legal or illegal, working for 5 bucks and change per hour.

Rightly or wrongly, my neighbor's cement layers are bitterly blaming GWB. I could see they're scared stiff behind their complaints and bravado.

This is the president's soft underbelly in the next election. The immigrant thing is out there in the conversations of the working men and women. It's a real and immediate issue and it's hurting folks around you and me more than anyone realizes.

The proposed alien immigrant policy is the wrong thing at the wrong time. The administration better wake up VERY quickly to what's going on out here in the real world. The tradespeople are going to vote Dem this time around from all I hear. My plumber told me the same thing the other day.

Leni

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BTTT

[God is good]

Americans don't want to live in a third world country, so why should Dictator Bush force them to?

[RiflemanSharpe]

This is absolutely true. In 1982 my father made $15 an hour as a journeyman carpenter. Back then you could support a middle class lifestyle on this and my mothers wages as a teacher. Now in this area at least you will be hard pressed to find anything other then an immigrant working in residential and commercial construction. And now they only pay $15 an hour. The wage had stagnated because of illegals.

[lainde]

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