Exactly right and some people/many? buy into this notion that as Lindsey Graham said America is just an “idea”. We are just widgets and can easily be replaced by anyone. The specific people themselves are not really important. So long as they can shop and vote. Only the idea is important. This is one reason that “multiculturalism” has become the “new religion” in America.
Unfortunately, that is the perspective of many of the supporters of this comprehensive immigration reform bill, including President Bush. The problem is that human beings are not widgets or units of labor. They can't be disposed of if they are no longer needed. Guest workers won't go home. The short term need for labor is used as the rationalization for legalizing 12 to 20 million illegals and having guest worker programs. The political and business elites do not weigh the long term economic, social, and cultural costs of bringing in large numbers of high school dropouts who are not interested in assimilating. This will lead to the Balkanization of the country, a loss of national identity, and no sense of shared endeavor. We will have squandered the legacy of our forefathers who fashioned this great country.