Illegal immigration is all about helping out the rich. (Class warfare alert!) The middle class pays for the illegal aliens through higher taxes to subsidize the medical and education costs (not to mention prisons, law enforcement, and other infrastructure costs). The poor pay for the illegal aliens in stiff competition for poorer paying jobs.
The rich sit back and get cheap labor for farming and manufacturing; labor they don’t have to pay benefits or retirement.
If the republicans do not close the border and create an orderly process for temporary guest workers, the bloodbath of the ’08 elections will make ’06 look like a Sunday School picnic.
If there are any elections in 2008....
In that event, I'd be more inclined to suspect that they'll more resemble those on 1912, in which the Republican Parety's candidates took third place...and in some states, fourth, behind Eugene V. Debs and his Socialists.
From your lips to God's ear. I have been a pretty reliable Republican vote in the past. Not anymore. Whoever promises to fix this problem wins, in my book. I don't give a d@mn what party they are affiliated with.
How much illicit wealth is making it into politician's pockets from bribes by drug cartels? I don't know, but it is would explain a lot of the inaction on both sides, even moreso than the usual shameless pandering for votes from various legitimate constituencies.
It works in Mexico. Why wouldn't it work here?
'Here we are prisoners' (Extensive look at how Mexican drug cartels control our border)