1) The economic elites benefit by having wage rates pushed downward, since third world immigrants will generally work for lower wages than american workers. This increases the profit margins/stock options of the economic elites.
2) The governmental elites support mass third world immigration because these folks tend to be big government voters. They don't mind high taxes (since they don't pay them) and they access large numbers of government services (thus keeping the governing elites in business).
The losers are the american middle and working classes. They lose by having their wages suppressed and their quality of life diminished. Their schools are overcrowded, their streets are less safe, and the cultural familiarity that they enjoyed in their communities is eroded.
As for the elites, they have the money and power to avoid the negative social fall-out of mass third world immigration. Their kids go to elite private schools, and they live in elite, gated neighborhoods. There are no squatter camps of Salvadoran immigrants near the Kennedy yacht launch in Cape Cod.
As South African President PW Botha once said: "a rich man can buy his own apartheid".
A Big YOU-ARE-110%-Correct Bump!If anyone still doesn't believe that there is only one political party left in the United States - the Demopublicratican Party - just look at the issue of immigration.
It's policy now...just ask the INS.