And no one dares talk about it, or the implications.
What's different about immigration today is that there's no desire among immigrants to be American. At best, this is just plain *rude*.
You see that all over the U.S. No assimulation, no English, and U.S. citizens are footing a whale of a tax bill paying for their free county health care, schooling, (in many states) voting rights, and citizenship for all the illegals' babies. My great gripe with Dubya is that he turns a blind eye to the "reconquista" going on. U.S. citizenship seems to mean nothing anymore, except we get to pay the taxes. ENOUGH!
Illegals vote Democratic. And the Left is invested in keeping even legal immigrants English-illiterate, which is why they push slow-track ESL. Immersion works; they don't want what works. They want another government-dependent subclass.