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All your points are good ones, the wealthy want their low income maids and gardners, the liberals look on these immigratns for voting strength and a continued poor so they can raise the wage gap issue.

The GOP also likes immigrants because bringing in low paid programmers makes up for years of failure to develop high tech education and there is this last point, that the baby boom generation will bankrupt social security but loads of immigrants will ensure that there is a bunch of workers paying into the system while the boomers retire.

With these political issues, immigration gets no look as an issue. (ranking near the bottom of issues ranging from terror to jobs/economy).

The left sees this as their issue, claiming that only they can save the environment while the right sees quality of life issues in economic terms noting that wealthy communities have the nicer environments. We have gone around on this issue, and I agree that immigration should be stopped.

I actually happened across a quote from around start of the industrial revolution.

The substance of that quote was that while it was cruel to starve workers, it was folly to let them get too fat, for then they lose their motivation to work hard.

So today "they" flood the nation with immigrants that the average worker won't get too prosperous and "lazy."

That is, workers can't be allowed to stop working when the workers are satisfied.

Rather, workers need to be manipulated so that their masters' limitless appetites for money can be constantly fed.

Have you noticed that it wasn't long after the slaves were freed that immigration to America was expanded? Free workers no longer had to compete with slave labor--the ruling class couldn't abide that!

So they flood the nation with immgrant workers to bring down the price of labor, to make the labor market an employer's market.

(I also suspect that they glad to import people like Italians and Irish and Chinese; because they probably believed such people could never be smart enough to become part of the ruling class. Well, that was one joke on them, anyway.)