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The way I see it is that politicians tell voters what they want to hear, then when they get in office they do as they please. This has been going on for a long time.

The truth of the matter is that I really don't know and am looking for answers myself. We have always had an influx of Mexicans. Before they seemed to respect our borders and only came here legally. Then the dam burst. I don't know why it was allowed and why it was allowed to continue.

The mantra is that they do jobs Americans don't want to do. That is a lie. Americans want to do jobs that pay well enough to live on. Illegal immigrants have an underground structure in which they cram into any kind of housing they can find and share expenses and save money. That's the only way they can make it.

Some of them rise higher in the economic structure and attain a degree of affluence. Then they are no longer willing to do the jobs either. Enter a new flood of people to take those jobs.

It's really a very destructive system. The illegal workers have no rights and have to take whatever the employers dish out or move on. Americans won't take that crap from employers because, if they don't know their rights, they find out what they are soon enough.

There are plenty of Americans willing to work most jobs if only they paid well enough.

I wish someone with objectivity could analyze just how, when and why things started getting out of control with illegal immigration.

Then if I want to be totally honest, if I were starving in Mexico, I might want to be an illegal immigrant myself.

They are here and here to stay and we'd best learn to live with it.

Down the line it might all work out all right; I don't know. The illegals know how to live on less money than the rest of us. Why is it I go to a buffet restaurant and see a Mexican man and his large family eating out? Why do I go to the grocery store and see a Mexican man and several children shopping for groceries? Obviously they wouldn't be in the store just browsing; they must have the money to pay for the groceries to feed all those mouths. Why are they making it and so many of the rest of us are not vis a vis larger families?

Maybe I'll get a handle on it for my own satisfaction and maybe I won't.