The big money boys in both parties want cheap labor. In 2006, I was in coastal Alabama and talked in Spanish with a Mexican laborer. He was there for post Katrina rebuilding, hired by a large Atlanta, GA company and being paid $4 an hour. Minimum wage was higher than that. He also said he would rather work in Mexico if there were jobs, but liked the US because our police are honest.
Understood. I will amend to say— the R party leadership is a major part of the problem.