“But what HAS changed is that now there’s all these entitlement programs”
That’s EXACTLY right, and it makes a big difference in the way people should view immigration, both legal and illegal.
Unfettered immigration and a compassionate welfare system are incompatible.
We simply cannot afford to cloth and feed the whole world.
And what about affirmative action which would give preferential hiring to amnestied(?)hispanics over good old long time honest US taxpayers?
Think about the amnesty legislation last proposed by the Senate (and President). Where did it say: yes, these illegal immigrants should be given amnesty but cannot have affirmative action preference over the US taxpayers who pay pay our (Senators) lifetime salaries and elitist privileges?
Does anybody, I mean anybody, out there understand what an arrogant self appointed bunch of a**holes the US Senate, which controls your life has become (Senators get about two hundred grand/yr for life, regardless of reelection)?
These people are really really elitist arrogant a**holes. Think Arlen Specter, Barbara Boxer, Charles Schumer, etc.
The police authority of government in Hillary's hands
Nor can we afford to be the hospital to the world, exactly what the pols are trying to shove down our throats and pick our pockets for (universal medical care, with full coverage for their buddies the illegal aliens.