Legal immigration is a far bigger problem for the viability of the GOP than illegal immigration. It has become the third rail for Reps. If we maintain the status quo on legal immigration, the Dems will become the permanent majority party within a decade.
They try to conflate it with legal immigration, accuse us of being like the 19th Century Know Nothings, racist (just this past week, Hillary said we were) and bald-face lies like Trump hates Mexicans... None of this is working!
Opposition to illegal immigration should be easy for Reps, but the cheap labor lobby wants an unending, inexhaustible supply of legal and illegal workers who depress wages and take jobs from Americans. We have a surplus of labor with the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. Why are we importing 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants a year along with 640,000 guest workers annually? It is insanity. Both parties have abandoned the American worker.
A. Some say the GOPe wants Amnesty. However, wouldn't making an illegal--now legal--increase the low wages they get? In other words, if they were made out-in-the-open citizens or green card holders, couldn't they unionize and demand more pay? How does this help the Chamber of Commerce types?
Amnesty just legalizes the 8 million or more illegal aliens who are holding jobs now. They just add to the legal labor supply further depressing wages more. Demanding more money is difficult given the labor surplus. American wages have been declining as well in real terms since 1969. Employers want to privatize the profits and socialize the costs, i.e., welfare benefits, healthcare costs, school costs, etc.
B. Some people claim the sanctuary cities, letting illegals go when stopped by police and not being deported, etc., is similar to the Underground Railroad of the Antebellum United States, and the correct morality spirit-wise to take. And honestly, this seems to be the take for Leftists in all of the Western, Caucasian countries. It is happening all over Europe with Muslims. And countries that will not let this happen, like Hungary and Romania, are treated like the Confederacy by the Western Left. You were State department for so many years. Do the Chinese, Muslim-run or other non-Western countries really think it racist not to let their unique cultures be overrun? Why is the Western Left so hell bent on cultural suicide?
Diversity, multiculturalism, and immigration have neutered the West. Although whites are accused of being racist, Western Europe and the United States are knowingly changing the demographics of their countries to make the non-Hispanic whites a minority, i.e., less than 50% of the population. By 2043 non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the US population and decline even further in 2060 to 43%. In 1970 non-Hispanic whites were 89% of the population.
The 1965 Immigration Act changed where our immigrants came from, i.e., from mostly Europe to the Third World. We are now reaping the results of that decision. Since 1990 we have admitted 35 million legal permanent immigrants, 87% of whom are minorities as defined by the USG. This has social, economic, cultural, and electoral implications. We have just had three of the highest decades of immigration in our history. In 1970 we had 9.7 million foreign born. Today it is over 42 million. We are being colonized by the Third World.
The reality is that the world with 7 billion people has a huge wealth disparity. Most of the people live in abject poverty with little hope of ever getting out it save for leaving the country and fleeing to the West, which offers far more opportunity and a better life. There is no way the West can absorb the billions of people that want to come here. And these masses want the West to accommodate to their cultures and beliefs, not the other way around. Japan represents a real exception when it comes to immigration. They don't tolerate it and will cope with their falling birthrates thru automation. They will protect their culture and dominance within the country.
C. democrats want their votes. 20-30 million new citizens that mostly vote democrat would make them the majority party--well, forever! I understand democrats wanting this, but GOPe? Why?
They are responding to their corporate paymasters and special interests. The globalists do profit under the current arrangement. The stock market has hit new highs. Corporations owe no allegiance to the US or the welfare of the American worker. The growing wealth gap reflects much of this as wages decline and corporate profits boom.
D. RINO Pro-illegal types: Linda Graham, McCain, Coker, Flake, and the rest, what over-arching policy or thought process are they following? Are they just stupid, do they think they're more civilized than the rest of us, or are they marching to the beat of a hidden, well-paying drummer?
The latter. Follow the money. They respond to corporate interests, which help fund their campaigns. And they keep getting reelected despite taking actions that hurt their fellow Americans. The Democrats pay lip service to the little guy, but they are getting more corporate donations than the Reps. We have the Uniparty and Hillary Clinton is the archetype of the Establishment candidate.
The battle is between globalism and nationalism. The political elites around the globe want to blur national borders and dictate to their subjects what is best for them. This is why Brexit was so significant. The banks, international corporations, political elites, and other special interests failed to defeat the nationalists. We can only hope for a similar result here, but I am concerned about voter fraud and other ploys by the Establishment. Notice the Bushes have yet to endorse Trump? Or Kasich, Cruz, Toomey, et. al.? Actually it is a good sign for us. But the stakes are so high in this election that the Establishment will do anything to stay in control--and I mean anything.
I have been involved with the immigration issue for over 9 years. I am proud that I had a small part to play in defeating Eric Cantor. Without Dave Brat's victory, the Gang of 8 bill would be law today. And that would mean game over.