Mark A Shrider said:
Illegal immigration, period. We fix that & a host of other things fix themselves. Even in some ways legal immigration is hurting us. It's obviously not that difficult to get into our country legally; just ask a terrorist.
Isn't the Invasion simply the natural by-product of our other policies.
We have a minimum wage. We have jobs that Americans don't think are worth doing for that pittance. Law of supply and demand is at work here. Damn few people are selling their labor at the price some businesses want to pay.
We have welfare, free money for people willing to take advantage of the system. That keeps more Americans out of the workforce.
We have politicians willing to:
a) Close their eyes because the Invaders are future voters riding the gravy train, or
b) Close their eyes because the employers of the Invaders are greasing their palms.
Almost all Republican and Democrat politicians are covered by (a) or (b).
We have an ridiculously extended deportation process that makes it difficult to send anyone back, assuming we can find them again, since most of those people are simply told to leave and come back to court later. When we do send them back, many simply catch the next bus to TJ and try again.
Add it all up and what do we have?
Our own people are paid not to work, while our employers are allowed to ignore wage laws (which shouldn't exist, but I'm dealing with the real world today) and hire people off the books for less than minimum. Also, because the employee is an Illegal Invader, he doesn't have any legal recourse to this exploitation.
So socialism contributes to the Invasion both by the government's intervention in the wage and labor market, and by the handout's to the useless... er our underpriveleged exploited victims of capitalist greed.
The corruption of the politicians is evident in their continued refusal to actually do anything about the problem. How many think that Bush's refusal to close the Southern Border is a sign of gross incompetence? No, he passed up the golden opportunity present by September 11th because he's a Republican and he wants his party to continue getting those campaign dollars. Ditto for his silly amnesty proposal.
Further evidence of this is our government's deliberate refusal to react to any number of border incidents involving Mexican solidiers crossing the border, or the Mexican government's printing and distribution of how-to-invade-the-United-States pamphlets.
So, I can agree that the Invasion is serious threat, but I believe it's a simply a symptom of deeper underlying problems, like the painful urination caused by gonorrhea.