This isn't about the border, Corker. It is about amnesty, increasing legal immigration to 33 million in the next 10 years, which is more than the past 40 years combined, and doubling the size of the guest worker programs--1.6 million increase the first year and 600,000 every year thereafter. There are 22 million Americans who are underemployed or unemployed. They will see lost jobs and depressed wages with this massive increase in immigration.
This is all political theater to distract from the devastating impact this bill will have on American workers -- unskilled and skilled. Both parties have abandoned the American worker. At one time we were told that immigrants do jobs Americans won’t (a lie) do. Now we must bring in more skilled workers to do jobs Americans can’t (another lie) do. As one of Rubio aides so artfully put it,
There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly.
I agree. Furthermore (I realize you know this kabar), even if you could make "the border" 75% leakproof, I think visa overstays are just as big of a problem.
Today's GOP is too cowardly to represent us.
Calvin Coolidge: "[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeur at another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse."