This is why I get so darn furious; this crappola is getting old. Anyone remember the Secure Fence Act that was passed by both the Dems and GOP in 2006? I think 18 flippin' years is enough time to come up with the money and manpower to complete the dang thing especially when we give away billions to other countries.
WTH is wrong with our government??? PURE EVIL CORRUPTION!!!!!!
I don't think it is corruption as much as it is just them being out of touch. Or maybe just not caring about a lot of their fellow Americans. I know because I used to think that same way.
To some Republicans -- and virtually all Democrats -- we need a lot more immigrants to perform low-wage jobs that Americans don't want to do. To them, it's a "win-win". Those people get jobs and a better life, and "we" get cheaper goods/services. They see that as so clear that they can't imagine any reason but racism/xenophobia to oppose that.
What they are missing is that these actions prevent the proper operation of the labor market. By importing workers willing to do menial jobs on the cheap, they prevent wages from rising. And generally with illegals, we're talking wages for the lower/working classes. I didn't see that clearly until I started negotiating management-side labor contracts for low-skilled/unskilled labor, and saw first-hand how what is termed a "labor-shortage" is basically the mechanism to raise wages for those lower skilled workers.
In essence, some wealthier folks want their cheap nannies, and gardeners, and laborers, etc., -- which most Americans can't afford anyway -- and more low-skilled immigration is the way to achieve that. Not to mention that a great many of those alleged low-skilled "workers" won't really work at all, and will just consume taxpayer-financed resources. Those wealthier folks who feel that way -- many of them Republicans -- are joined by progressives who just like the idea of having a less-white country. Or at a minimum, importing more eventual voters likely to lean left given that they're coming from more socialistic countries. That sounds crude, but I think it is true, and I've heard enough of them express that in so many words that I'm convinced that's real.
Quite naturally, American lower-skilled workers and those sympathetic to them oppose all that.
That is what is really going on.
