This absolutely makes me feel sick to my stomach thinking that this and worse actually happens these days. I think perhaps my idea of the United States, and being an American is a thing of the past. Anyone who does the right thing in regard to illegal immigration is a 'racist' 'gun toting ying yang' and so on.
I have no faith that our government, our people will fix this problem. It is the way people want it to be. Don't they see that illegal immigration is a factor in the growing expanse between rich and poor? These illegals benefit companies who hire them, the profit margin increases, the operation cost decreases, the money the illegals make goes back to their families in Mexico or Central America, not into the US. Hospitals in California close, because they cannot afford to stay in business. The drop out rate of high school students in the San Francisco bay area is over 50% in some districts. And our country's heroes are jailed for doing the right thing.
If we wanted to stop the flow across the borders tomorrow we could. If we wanted to envoke emergency powers a nation at war sometimes does, we could have most illegals gathered and sent home in a few months. We could pay for the cost from the sale of businesses and business owners property. All of it seized and sold right down to the kitchen knives.
Bush I feel has sold us out on this issue. Our government will consistently do what is best for the short term profit. I feel deeply saddend by the way things are.
What will be done? We'll give them amnesty, until eventually there is no border because 'we' will have voted it away. The rest of us are like tall green weeds in a healthy lawn, and some day may be 'cut down' just as this poor fellow in Arizona is now. I am anxious to hear how I am completely wrong, seeing the glass half empty, etc. Tell me how there will be a good ending to this story. Tell me things like the declaration of independence, and the constitution, are still sacred, that we still have the dream Thomas Jefferson expressed with divine inspiration so many years ago.
