Name the areas.
The flood of illegals has created a downward pressure upon wages in America. There are PLENTY of people to do the work in America but they won't do the work for impossibly low wages.
This is about employers refusing to pay enough money to attract good help.
Illegal immigration is a cancer. It rewards breaking the law. It puts downward pressure on wages. It undermines sovereignty of the nation. It undermines all efforts to secure ourselves from terrorists. It bankrupts our hospitals, our schools and our social services.
George Bush firmly believes poor people have a right to break the law to seek a better life. This is the rationale of a thief.
I take what I need, regardless of the law, because I need it.
There are hundreds of millions of poor people on this planet. Most are poorer than those in Mexico. Why don't we start bringing those unfortunates in too? According to George W. Bush's rationale, we ought to provide them with transportation to get here. After all, all they want is a better life and we, the American people, OWE IT TO THEM.
I say the next one million illegal immigrants should squat on property adjacent to Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch.
Nice points.
Texas. Manufacturing sector, health care sector, education, law enforcement and oil patch. The children of immigrants are being educated as fast as we can to go into these professions.
"The flood of illegals has created a downward pressure upon wages in America. "
Which wages? Gardeners? Roofers? Car Washers? Immigrants coming here for minimum wage jobs don't drive down wages of anyone except people in those same minimum wage jobs, not doctors and lawyers.
"Illegal immigration is a cancer."
Meaningless bumper sticker slogan. They come because there is a demand for their labor and they provide essential services. Productive employees are a nation's greatest asset, not a cancer. That's unthinking babble.
"It undermines sovereignty of the nation. It undermines all efforts to secure ourselves from terrorists."
No it doesn't. That Buchanan/Tancredo fundraising nonsense. We've always had a large immigration population and our sovereignty hasn't been threatened by immigrants. Tsake a quick trip to your local veteran's cemetary and look at the names on the headstones and tell them they threatened our sovereignty. Next your going to say it causes global warming or some such nonsense.
"George Bush firmly believes poor people have a right to break the law to seek a better life. This is the rationale of a thief. "
Where have you been the last four years. Bush has proposed a guest worker program that would eliminate illegal labors. He has also increased border security. President Bush is not a thief.
" Bush's rationale, ... they want is a better life and we, the American people, OWE IT TO THEM. "
No, the rationale is that we need them and they need us. It's mutuality. Same theory as the drug trade, but different because these are good intentioned people engaged in beneficial activity.
President Bush is addressing the immigration situation in the most responsible way, just as he has all other issues.