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Another example of the "hidden costs" of illegal immigration.

I have come to the conclusion it is the official policy of our government to allow this invasion of illegal immigrants. Over the last 40 years American industry, politicians, and the Mexican government have promoted, encouraged, facilitated, and rewarded this importation of the poorest to the USA. Even now, with the issue on the front burner and the majority of US legal citizens against this stampede, absolutely nothing is being done.

Can someone explain to me why an advanced culture would import the dregs of the Mexican culture which depends upon fraud, graft, kickbacks and corruption in its society to deliver goods and services to its citizens?

I don't really care about importing the dregs of Mexican culture. That's what we've done throughout much of our history - import poor, hungry and hard-working people from around the world who spoke little English and cared about little more than feeding their families.

The problem with large scale illegal immigration today is that we have a huge welfare state in place. In the old days, those who could support themselves stayed, whereas those who couldn't returned to the old country. These days, those who can't support themselves leech off the welfare state. We have enough native welfare dependents. We don't need to import new dependents from abroad.

See the CFR. The stampede north is the result of the failure of NAFTA and CAFTA. After the cold war ended, movers and shakers (including big business), got together and decided the US should export capitalism to the rest of the hemisphere as a deterrent to another rise of communism and violence. A rising tide lifts all boats deal. The thinking couldn't be clearer. If we can't get them to change one way, we'll do it another. Allowing millions into the US, to become Americanized -- infected if you will with American values and work ethic, capitalism spreads and the tide rises.

That's if some return home to change Costa Rica or Mexico, et al. into productive countries. (A Pollyanna notion at best. Who in his right mind would go back to Venezuela and life under Chavez? Or Nicaragua and Noriega, the odds on favorite to win the next election and goodbye democracy hello communism.)

This has been foisted upon US citizens without their knowledge, without open discussion, without a vote and in a time of war. It's unconstitutional and nobody in the corridors of power seems to have considered the effect of millions of Spanish speaking, Latino cultured people, most of whom are unskilled and/illiterate, with no notion of hygiene, without innoculations, without a clue, some criminals, drug dealers and who knows what flooding over the border all at once would have on this country. Too many all at once to assimilate. We've been invaded, and we see the return of TB, and now drug resistant TB, all kinds of Hepatitis, measles, mumps, and other diseases we'd wiped out in the US. The end effect will be Balkanization and the loss of US culture, common language, and sovereignty. Where does it say the US has to be the nanny for the hemisphere? If the other countries want to live in poverty and squalor, so what. Let them do as they please. Put up the wall and do it yesterday.

"Can someone explain to me why an advanced culture would import the dregs of the Mexican culture which depends upon fraud, graft, kickbacks and corruption in its society to deliver goods and services to its citizens?"

Isn't it just amazing how you NEVER hear Mexicans complain about the Mexican government? But they sure don't have a problem marching in the streets and complaing about US government...demanding rights and change...
only comedian Carlos Mencia has the backbone to state:
"At least white Europeans have the balls to say that they are here because Europe sucks...you can't get Mexicans to say that..."