[hedgetrimmer]

And, all of us as consumers benefit to some extent from those lower costs.

But none of us as citizens are benefitting. We have seen our schools, hospitals and infrastructure trashed. We are witnessing the wholesale transfer of American wealth to third world countries through remittances. We will see the social security system looted more disasterously than it is already through "totalization" with Mexico.

We have seen our culture denigrated and our values mocked.

No person is one hundred percent consumer. People are citizens and human beings too. But not in the eyes of the "free trade" economists and global elites who see human beings as things to be manipulated for profit, or encouraged to die if the population becomes to large in their eyes.

[Scenic Sounds]

Good post! You're absolutely right, hedgetrimmer. Illegal immigration affects each of us somewhat differently and it also affects each of us in different ways.

From an economic standpoint, I see it largely as a very expensive subsidy for some employers. Our government's tolerance and support of this sort of immigration amounts to an illegal redistribution of wealth/income from taxpayers and workers to employers who don't respect our laws.

And, like you say, it's also very destructive to our political and legal institutions. Things are gonna change. ;-)