Racism is not a factor. The law is the factor. Beyond that, Senators, Congressmen, and Presidents getting bought and paid to not follow or enforce the immigration laws that are on the books is another factor. Until I see an enforced border controls including functioning guest worker programs, an immigration policy based on the needs of the US, actual deportations of illegal immigrants, and heavy fines for those who hire them, I see no reason to discuss legalizing anyone.
The truth of the matter is, illegal immigration lowers the wages of Americans, serves to make welfare and food-stamp recipients out of abled body Americans who sit at home rather then work in the fields, and the entire system serves to exploit desperate people in general.
Stopping illegal immigration would pressure home countries to reform because their citezens would have no where to escape to. Mexico might actually beome a decent country if they actually had to deal with their most desperate people.
I’m sorry if any of this sounds harsh, but it’s reality. I had no money when I was young. I hoed weeds in a field one summer and the next summer I worked in a tomatoe cannery to make money.....and I’m as white as a piece of paper. I never thought I was above doing anything to make my way.
The world is nuts!!!!
We're a melting pot, but we are boiling over and the water is scalding the sides of the pot and stove. The pot and stove is the U.S. As a melting pot, we're supposed to be simmering, so the herbs and spices can trickle throughout the fruited plains, like a finger that arises from a pie on a ledge that tells the character to come here in a Tex Avery cartoon.