Do you want your children (or yourself) to do those jobs the rest of their lives?
Why do you heap scorn on your fellow Americans for their choice in earning a paycheck?
"Do you want your children (or yourself) to do those jobs the rest of their lives?"
Go back and reread this thread later on. IMHO you are just missing the points raised here.
Heres yet another angle for you to consider. People who go through a legal process, who come to this country first and foremost to become American citizens, have a profound respect for their adopted country.
My ancestors sure did, my father and uncles all served in WW2.
All people spoke English, they became assimilated into the American community and American culture at large.
Doing so allowed them to reap all the benefits and opportunities of American citizenship....(no entitlements in those days).
They became educated, worked hard, and raised themselves up.
One even went on to design high tech electronics for Avionics and DOD programs.
They got all their start LEGALLY. Thats in part why their kids respected the country and its laws.
I thought we all discovered after the debacle of the Great Society that giving people something for nothing doesnt work.
Why give a particular group of people who have broken the law a head start on the most precious gift of all....citizenship? What message will that send to their children and grandchildren?
Having cheated the system and won...why wouldnt they encourage more of their freinds and family back in Mexico to do they same...thus perpetuating the problems of illegal immigration?
None of us want our children to do menial jobs for the rest of our lives. But we do want them to experience hard work in their youth, before moving up to better things. This will give them an appreciation of the value of those who do toil with their hands.
But you want our teenagers to lounge by the pool, while brown-skinned adult third-worlders toil around them, forever.
Do you think instilling hereditary "master and servant" values in our youth is good for America in the long run? A virtual caste system, by your own description? Where our youth consider themselves "too good" for even a couple years of hard manual labor? Where they are surrounded by older servants, locked forever in those manual jobs which are "beneath" our snobbish lazy youth?
If menial jobs are "beneath" our children, what makes them just right for Mexicans?