This goes hand in hand with 'globalization'.
Title the discussion how you will.
You are not just talking about immigration. Its all here for everyone to see.
So be it.
I'm out. Gotta go.
The fact is we are in a global economy and are going to have to compete in the same like it or not.
If we cannot do that we are well and truly screwed like that or not.
Sitting around crying and begging someone to protect us from it because we are, after all, Americans serves no purpose whatever because it is FAR to late for that in any case. The genie is out of the bottle and there is no getting him back in!
We can waste more time exploring all the reasons for that if we wish but what we REALLY need to do is what Americans always have done, suck it up, stop whining, and go to work!
If you must blame someone blame me and others like me, who are a good deal older than you and who were far to busy making our own way in the world to pay attention to what our political leaders were doing to us for far to long. That great sin has allowed our public education systems to become the cesspools of mediocrity that they have become amoungst many other things. I have tried my best to atone for my sins in that area for a long time now and have just begun to make a little progress I think. There is ample work yet to be done however and those of us whoare largely responsible for the condition we currently find ourselves in are not going to be around to get all that needs doing done. YOU are going to have to do it yourselves like it or not!
Our president is a good man and I will not sit idly by and see him trashed for simply pointing out the obvious. The enemy is not G. W. Bush. The enemy is, as was pointed out long ago by that great philosopher POGO, us. Only we can fix it!
There are two courses open to us. We can either get busy and prepare ourselves to compete globally, requiring that we get our own house in order in every aspect, or we can not do that and continue on the path to destruction we currently find ourselves on.