This will piss off just about everybody here but there is a higher truth that the real powers that be understand. We live in a welfare state and it more or less works. Our real competition on this planet is China and we at least have to keep up with them. The only way for that to happen is if we make Mexico defacto part of the US. So it takes a generation or two to re-educate them. We have no alternative. There are only 60 million of them down there. We can absorb them all and in one generation their birthrate will be as flat as ours is now. That's what prosperity does for you. Makes you selfish and unwilling to surrender your life to raise six kids.
Mexico is a wealthy land. Oil and minerals. Workers. As the world becomes more and more one big capitalistic playground ... lines on maps just don't mean that much. If we are worried about losing our culture (and I ask WHAT culture) then we will just have to work hard to preserve it (whatever IT is).
You can bitch about this until hell freezes over. It will do absolutely no good. I say if you can't beat em ... join em. I've always gotten along ok with Mexican Mexicans. It's the American Mexicans that give me the most grief. We just need to close up the black market and make sure that everyone pays their taxes and all employers pay into FICA.
It's like income tax. Sure it stinks but its not a total failure. The Italians have a saying. You must arrange yourself. Work the system.
" You must arrange yourself. Work the system."
I read all of your post and if you go back and look at the arguements for slavery, you will find much of the same wording for the arguement for illegal cheap labor. You mention the problem is China, I agree. We have several billion dollars trade deficit. That's the problem. Greed will always find a way to exploit people, you me, latino's, Chinese.
Every poll, including FR, shows 80% are against this invasion. Don't count that many Americans (many Mexican Americans) out.
Free Republic Opinion Poll: Do you approve of the plan to let some of the eight million illegal aliens in the United States move toward legal status without penalty -- but with social security benefits?
Composite Opinion
No 85.2% 1,400
Yes 8.8% 145
Undecided 6.0% 98
100.0% 1,643