People don’t get it. Both parties want this bill. The Dems want it for amnesty and increased numbers of legal immigrants that will make them the permanent majority party. The bill will bring in at least 47 million legal immigrants over the next 10 years—three times more than the decade ending in 2010, which saw 13.9 million legal immigrants enter this country, the highest decade in American history.
The Reps want the bill for more guest workers—white collar and agricultural—to please their corporate masters. The bill doubles the number of guest workers increasing the numbers by 1.6 million the first year and 600,000 every year thereafter.
This phony border security scam issue is meant to deflect from the central problem with this bill, i.e., it takes jobs from American workers and depresses wages even further. Throwing more resources at the border really does not fix this bill or this central problem. We are being sold out by the political elites of both parties.
You’ve got it exactly right.
Such supposedly Apple-pie institutions as the US Chamber of Commerce support it. Without high tech behind it for its own immigration goodies, it probably wouldn’t have the oomph to pass, either—though it is primarily big employers of low-skill illegals pushing it through. And, of course, one worlders have been for the de facto political unification of the Americas for decades now.
With the consistent political-media din, the pollster monkeys are able to generate favorable-appearing polls on it now, too.
Oh, and for good measure, the tea parties are now completely distracted with their civil liberties distractions, organizing protests against the IRS rather than against the massive amnesty about to pass.