Yeah, I read em, are there illegal aliens in janettes employ? I'll say again, I don't think legal aliens will ever be, or should be deported, but the problem is the same, like she said, if things get screwed up here, she will just high tail it back to the homeland. That attitude is common among immigrants. janette basically said what I have heard hundreds of them say, "I am a German, living in America".
This is the problem with immigration, they have no desire to be Americans, they have no stake here other than monetary, and not a care in the world about the social conditions here, they can just split for the mudder land should things go south, while calling us racists.
I don't really care about their attitude of "I am a .... living in America" as long as they keep their traps shut about how we handle our business in our homeland and there is some mutual benefit to them being here.
"They" (legal aliens) will more likely than not become U.S. citizens after the 5-year transition period from legal aliens to citizen is over. Then they can enter into homeland security debates just as "regular" Americans can, right? As far as coming to the U.S. for money, sure, that's probably the main reason illegal and legal aliens show up. If things go bad here, if they've made enough American dollars here, or if they want to retire they can leave and go back to their country of origin. As far as immigrants not thinking of themselves as Americans the situation is more complicated than you have alluded to. Generally, the native-born Americans try to socialize with other native-born people, which leaves the immigrant groups creating social networks within their own groups.