You might also compare the natural resources of Mexico with the USA's -=- and how number of billionaires in Mexico competes with number in Great Britain --- obviously there is no excuse for the level of poverty. Mexico has already dumped one-fifth of it's population on the USA --- but there is no end to their demands --- Vicente Fox is all the more aggressive in what he requires.
Massive immigration is the result of social injustice in Mexico --- it results from instability and leads to more instability. This is a vicious spiral now --- the more people they send us, the more people they demand to send us. They never intend to end the corruption, they never intend to build up a strong middle class or allow the peasants to reach the middle class or have access to the great wealth of Mexico. This is the elites' way of preventing a long overdue revolution or changing the underlying conditions that lead to one.
Taxpayers are being asked to build new schools and hire new teachers to educate the millions of children of illegal aliens here. The law states that we must educate the children, but no one ever anticipated the great numbers that would be sneaking over our porous borders. No one dreamed of the costs that this law would incur.
By using false documents, illegal aliens are overwhelming our welfare services and children's aid services. This is against the law, but that law has rarely been enforced.
Illegal aliens undercut many construction and service industries by working for less than American workers can. This has caused loss of American jobs. The employers who hire illegal aliens do not provide medical insurance plans for them, and often pay the workers in cash. This in turn allows the illegal aliens to avoid paying income taxes like the rest of us do, yet they are the biggest users of social services.
Here in California the numbers of illegal aliens are so overwhelming that the police have been instructed to ignore immigration status, yet when the ones who commit crimes are caught and go to prison, we are the ones paying the bills.
Our politicians are all but ignoring the existing immigration and border laws. They pander for the hispanic vote, and think that if American immigration laws are actually enforced they will lose the hispanic vote. Crazy, huh?
To hear some of the illegal alien apologists talk you would think that this country would fall apart if it wasn't for illegal aliens. This is a lie. America got along quite well prior to the invasion, and we didn't have as many unwanted bills to pay.
A question to ponder would be why aren't these expenses being paid by the government of Mexico? These are their millions of citizens, not ours.
Several of us (myself, SandRat, JackelopeBreeder, and Spiff) have personal experience with the very real day-to-day impact of 1000 people per day crossing through our neighborhoods...please feel free to contact me if you want input from that aspect, ok? I'm sure the others wouldn't mind too terribly much helping you out!