Ah yes, our vaunted superior business culture, the apotheosis of which is ..... ENRON!
ENRON demonstrates that white-bread, (christian) God-fearing, good-ole goobbers from Texas can lie, cheat and steal with the best of the third-world grifters. But you are right about one thing - we do have a superior business climate in this country. because those fine, upstanding crooks in Armani suits won't get away with it. Thanks to strong market regulation - enforced by agencies created by Teddy Roosevelt and the progressive Republicans - the Enron consigliari will be held accountable. It is rather humorous that the same folk who fume over immigration also deride agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission as "socialists." And that reminds me - from which cultural tradition did Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles spring?
Many immigrants come here to escape oppression and to enjoy our superior business climate. And once here, they are fiercely supportive and protective of our business climate and the system of regulation that keeps it honest - unlike many of the native-born, who constantly whine about "socialism." Perhaps that's because the immigrant know what true socialism is, and the native-born whiners simply don't have a clue.
That's true of many immigrants but not all by a long shot. You could look around at certain areas with extremely high immigration and see how many are not working and are moving directly into housing projects. They are not learning English because they don't really care to compete for good jobs. I know of a 15 year old couple who came from Chihuahua and had a baby a few months later in the county hospital. They moved in with a relative also from Mexico who receives SSI and food stamps. The baby was born last March and neither parent is working yet. And we have a lot of that going on here.