Otherwise sensible Republicans have personally told me that immigration is ".....in the American Tradition, the way we built the country yadda, yadda, yadda....." For years none other than Rush Limbaugh was telling his listeners that "....illgeal immigration was the sign of a healthy economy... " Thankfully he has dropped the US Chamber of Commerce Bullshiite and jumped on the anti-illegal bandwagon.
They forgot the words "legal," and "European." They lost sight of the numbers, as if the legal immigration a million Poles and 3 million Irish over a 150-year period is the same thing as some 35 Million Mexicans since 1965. They are STILL endlessly repeating their phony number of 11 Million illegals. LOL. That's LA County!
Add up all of European immigration since 1800, throw in the number of African Americans here then, and since freed, and STILL, the numbers are dwarfed by recent immigration from the South.
We are simply very far down the path toward becoming a Latin-ized country, with two languages and a very mixed population and culture. You mentioned Brazil?
That's where the next wave of illegals is coming from, and with a population 3 times that of Mexico.
Which is no nation at all, but a Balkanized and explosive disaster waiting to happen.
Not the America we were born into, or the one we voted for.