For $hits and giggles, I kept a copy of the Boston Glop from just before the November 1994 elections with its predictable pap that the GOP would go nowhere. Wrong then, wrong now, always wrong.
Side to side slums which make our slums look like comfy housing adjacent to gated highrises and gun toting security guards patrolling pricey shops are the norm.
Within ten years, if this unfettered illegal immigration continues, this is our future. However, I don't think the middle class and our “poor” have the financial resources to hide behind gates and security. We will be fighting against the influx from the south for crumbs.
What the PTB plan is going to backfire. You can't assimilate everyone, especially when everyone does not want to assimilate. Or maybe that's their plan - take down the country and the system.