With this I agree. The Muslims and the Hispanics, IOW the left in general, is pushing its luck to the limit. The backlash is going to occur so fast as to give the Democrats whiplash as they try to get back ahead of a parade that just did an about face.
However, many conservatives are turning a blind eye toward the real economic problem of the years of illegal immigration and millions of illegals now embedded in our economy. We are at full employment and if we had the resources, which we don't, to magically round up and return them all today our economy would take a big hit. Many businesses would close and the construction industry would come to a near stand still.
Those Americans who can't find jobs now won't be jumping into the bus boy, maid, waitress/waiter, lawn mowing, roofing, framing, etc., jobs that are now filled by illegals no matter what they pay. If they do they will do them slovenly and resentfully. There really are jobs Americans don't want to do.
This is not an easy problem to solve. Our economy will take a big hit. It would have been far better had it never gotten to this. However, the left, especially under the Clintons, have for years been encouraging the Hispanics and the Muslims to do just as they are doing.
It is not easy to put the brakes on now and reverse course. We are in Afghanistan and Iraq now just trying to do part of the job. We, real American citizens, may be taking to the streets in this country as our military is elsewhere.
It would have been far better had it never gotten to this.
I don't buy the "these are jobs that Americans don't want to do". If the wage erosion was eliminated by clamping down on illegal hiring practices, the wages for these jobs would have to rise until the positions were filled. Also, the unemployment numbers don't take into account part time laborers or people who are currently seeking employment. Many people would work these jobs if they paid enough. We also have to reduce the welfare state and we will start seeing more applicants for these jobs.
We've already resolved the issue of whether or not there are jobs Americans won't do ~ it's the rate of pay.
There are, in fact, no jobs, that if paid well, cannot be done by Americans.
Even Mexican whores can be successfully replaced, and at little change in the prevailing rate.
>>There really are jobs Americans don't want to do.
I can't disagree more, and this false belief is the reason that the GOP is not taking a tougher stand on the issue.
The fact is, Americans will do any job if it pays enough. Someone who is here illegally will accept a below-market wage, just as you can get cigarettes or liquor cheaper if you buy them illegally (i.e. without the excise tax being applied to them).
Illegal immigration has masked the high inflation (5-6%) that has actually been occuring over the past 15 years.
Americans will have to get used to paying more for construction work, meals in restaurants, etc. Either that, or this work will need to be done more efficiently and less labor-intensively through the use of technology.