Most all people who came here were very grateful & proud to be new citizens. Now they are contemptuous & spit on our flag, form groups like La Raza, gangs, barrios. And who else besides Mexicans come over the border? Why, people from the ME with no good intentions, South & Central Americans, who could be from anywhere.
The decent Mexicans who come here are hard workers and they are being exploited by our government. If McCain thinks white people could pick lettuce even for his crazy $50 hr, he is full of it--Anglos cannot do this kind of work at least for very long, not these days.
This is not to say that immigrants many years ago were not exploited by big business interests. and we should not repeat that, either.
B.S. I suggest you take a look at how an awful lot of Anglos made their living on farms as recently as the 1970s. Ever seen a Maine potato farm? Poor white folk always have done a fine job of harvesting those spuds.
If being exploited means paying no income taxes, getting free health care, free education for my kids and being able to cry, 'Racism!' every time somebody looks sideways at me, and not having to learn the language or respect the law, then I'll take a slice of that pie, please.