Immigration

Originally posted by Draxus
Perhaps I don't understand the entire argument, but I think it is more a popular opinion than a fact that "we need the illegal immigrants to work in our country." The fact is that we have plenty of people on welfare and plenty of people unemployed. I think it might be a little difficult for them to make a social change and take these jobs, but, if we were t ...[text shortened]... We would have to significantly lower the amount of "rights" that we give them though.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucjl/20060508/cm_ucjl/sentimentagainstillegalsispowerfulandgrowing;_ylt=AoiKkw4S_6R1sFNmFvzqmvP9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

SENTIMENT AGAINST ILLEGALS IS POWERFUL AND GROWING By John Leo
Sun May 7, 8:32 PM ET

"Editorialists seem to discuss the illegals mostly in terms of compassion and the impossibility of deporting the 11 million already here. But the core of the problem is that illegal entry is a never-ending process. An amnesty-light compromise in Washington is unlikely to do much more about this than the allegedly tough amnesty-light program of 1986. In a poll last August, about 40 percent of adults surveyed in Mexico said they would like to move to the United States. If so, there would be another 28 million people. Mexico has a high birthrate, a broken political culture and a government determined to dump its poor on the United States. It even publishes a comic book showing illegals how to avoid the U.S. border patrol."

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Fine, if you don't mind the cost of your fresh fruit and vegetables going up several fold.