Sorry kids we’re all full up, we’re $16 trillion in debt thanks in large part to handouts and we have an ongoing invasion from the South as well. Better get to work fixing your own problems in your own country and spare us the sob stories about entrenched power structures. No pain no gain.
While it’s true that most Americans generally want to reduce immigration, it’s also true that there is virtually no political expression for this popular view.
The last time it seemed that sanity might prevail, that both parties would do what’s right and come together to reduce legal immigration was in the mid 90s. Democrat congresswoman Barbara Jordan’s commission released it’s findings calling for a reduction in legal immigration by one third (not enough I know, but better than nothing). Clinton actually endorsed the commission’s findings. There were Republicans in the Senate and House in support of it. It looked like it would pass...but then nothing happened. I don’t think it even got a vote. The ethnic interest groups started their normal nonsense, thus helping to push Clinton away from his earlier position, while Republicans like Spence Abraham helped sabotage it.
Since then restrictionist can point to stopping Amnesty as a success, but legal immigration remains at mass levels.
Obama obviously would love to increase and expand immigration from 3rd world countries as it would hasten the demographic destruction of the GOP. What about Romney? While being good (so far) on illegal immigration, he has also said how we should increase legal immigration!
In other words, too many in the GOP remain clueless. I’ll gladly vote for Romney over our current, terrible President, but there is no reason to expect much of an improvement on immigration if Romney does win.