Ron,
I completely agree with your observation about the work ethic of immigrants.
My objection is completely political and economic in nature.
First generation Hispanics vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
Fourth generation Hispanics vote 60% for the Democrat Party.
Mass legal immigration - 13 million just in the last 10 years - means the political destruction of American Conservatism.
Add in Amnesty for the current 11 million illegals, and the Democrat Party will take PERMANENT control of the federal government and Supreme Court.
When Reagan ran in 1980, 83% of voters were white.
Today, 63% of voters are white.
Most Conservatives are stunned when they are told that Ronald Reagan would have LOST the 1980 election if the USA racial percentages were the same as 2012.
Most Conservatives are stunned when they are told that Bob Dole would have WON the 1996 election against Clinton if the racial percentages were the same as 1980.
As to economics....
70% of current LEGAL immigrants have limited skills and limited education.
America is IMPORTING millions of these people at exactly the same moment that low skill wages are being crushed and low skill jobs are disappearing from every economy in the world.
Politically and economically, American Conservatives must find some way to STOP this immigration catastrophe.
YOu cannot cut entitlement programs unless you kick the illegals out of the country and let the former entitlement program people take those jobs. All the regulations about work and mininmum wage need to be repealed.
There is nothing like hunger to motivate people.