As long as businesses from the huge companies like Walmart all the way down to small construction outfits can have a continuous supply of cheap labor like the way it is now, our borders are going to stay open like a bunny ranch. It’s a great deal for America. Back in the day they had to go out and search for slaves, now they just sit back and let them come to us. Bush’s guest worker program is about to open the flood gates even more. When will America shore up the borders you ask? NEVER! It’s simply not going to happen.
Yep, as long as the unholy alliance between business, illegal immigrants, and civil liberties groups holds, nothing will be done.
I agree with the guest worker program. That, with the Free-Trade Area of the Americas will finish America. Add that to the fact that we don't require any immigrant to assimilate as we used to and it all means one thing: WE ARE FINISHED!
What's happeneing in Europe, will happen here if we don't get our acts together. Either we have to secure our borders or we at least have to make immigrants assimilate (make them to learn English, etc.).
We also have to stop being lazy as a people. Thanks to government entitlements everywhere, Americans now believe that the government owes something. Before, agricultural labor was not exclusively "Mexican" job. Americans, white, black, asian, and hispanic, would work in these jobs in order to secure a better life for their children. Now, thanks to the New Deal, and the Great Society, Americans believe that there are some jobs that they are unwilling to do. Some of our children can't read, others can't do math. They now largely want to focus on entertainment, since it involves little work. Immigrants are now doing the "hard" jobs.
Meanwhile we have businesses that would sell national security for profit (look at all of the companies that eager to do business with China). They have largely bought off governemnts and they have convinced consumers to focus on low prices.
Hard work built this country (even slave labor was hard work, albeit forced). If Americans abandon this priciple, then we are doomed as nation.