I read Reagan’s transcript of his radio broadcast from the 1970s that outlined why we have guest workers. It was enlightening.
As for border enforcement, I have seen it first hand. I don’t know whether the illegals that are being arrested and sent back to Mexico are returning the next day or the next week, but I know someone is doing his job on this side. But maybe it’s all a show, and there are not any illegals being handcuffed on the side of the road and stuffed into the animal control-looking vehicles that take them somewhere else where they are put on the big Homeland Security buses and toted back to Mexico.
I know what I have seen, but what I have seen is anecdotal. Most of our neighbors where we currently live would be accused of being “illegals” if they were to venture to flyover country. They speak with Spanish accents, and they can even speak a few words of Spanish as well. We met a guy who graduated from hubby’s rival high school in the Midwest a year before hubby graduated, and he sounds like he just hopped off a smuggler’s truck from Mexico. (that would be the early 1980s) The guy has lived in the US all of his life. When he was old enough, he moved to an area where he would be around other Mexican-sounding people. I have to wonder what some people thought the U.S. Southwest was like 100 years ago.
There is a definite problem with uncontrolled immigration, but there is work being done. There is a whole lot more to do!
There is a problem, but it didn’t start yesterday and it didn’t start when George Bush was elected.
It has been growing, largely ignored, for 30-40 years. Now in the last few years people have noticed, hey, we have illegals here. wonder how that happened?
They seem to think Bush can wave a wand and they will disappear. Any reasonable statement he makes about dealing with the problem sends them into a fury.
He always emphasizes the border, but because he also mentions dealing with those already here ... which we have to do, by the way ... fries the brain cells of the one-issue people here.