Originally Posted by TSGracchus

But screwing the illegals is exactly what we're doing, Mrs. M. That's what I'm saying. This whole policy, this under-the-table immigration our government is permitting without officially permitting it, is designed to screw the illegals. We're not coddling these people. Just the opposite!



Who says we can't? There's a big difference between "can't" and "won't."

The problem isn't a lack of resources, it's an insistence by our government on serving the rich instead of the rest of us, be it through corporate subsidies, deficit bait-and-switch, or wars of conquest. That's not a failure of ability but of political will. Our politics has become a corrupt servitor of corporate interests, and that is the source of virtually every problem this country faces, definitely including the problem of illegal immigration. AND senior citizens unable to afford their medication, AND children without health coverage, and failing schools and so on and so on.

Why raise immigration quotas? Because these are jobs that need doing, and because the employment problem in America at this time isn't a lack of jobs or high unemployment, it's declining real wages. We're not in a situation where there are lots of unemployed U.S. citizens and the wetbacks are taking their jobs. These jobs will either be done by legal immigrants or by illegal immigrants. Which is better?