Well if Mexico goes Bolitarian al la Chavez, the people with money and sense will flee and the communists will force the poor to stay. We have gotten the upper class Venezuelans here in Florida who came with enough money to buy houses and fuel a boom. Holding the line on amnesty and paths to citizenship will revert the riff raff to Mexico and get us their best and brightest, instead.
We should limit immigration to those who will become American Citizens and take up all the responsibilities and duties of being US citizens. Those who show that they cannot or will not need to be sent home.
The others are a drain on our economy and a disruption to the safe running of the state.
Have you seen how many people think Al Pachino's "SCARFACE" is a role model?
I see lots of people working hard to be Americans studying to become citizens learning ENGLISH and taking on those duties and responsibilities. These people leave their countries behind to embrace the USA and all the promise of being part of this great country with all of its freedoms and opportunities. They are not here to sponge off of the USA. They are here to become part of the USA.
Look at the ethnic communities of legal immigrants and you will find we are in favor of border control and stopping the flood of illegal immigration.
This is the difference. Legal immigrants think of themselves as Americans. We are here to stay no matter what. Illegal immigrants are still Mexicans Iraqis Indians whatever who are here until they decide to go home. They are tourists like so many NRI. They should go home.