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Originally Posted by JonnydaJibba
That's a good point, but I still believe in time this could become a much worse problem. Just 6 years ago there were 7 million illegal immigrants. Today there are 11 million (INS and Census Bureau estimations). There are only more and more coming, the majority of which are from Mexico.
Also, we may not have a problem with the illegal immigrants who come here to live, but there are people who don't like the U.S. and have the power to destroy this country, in one form or another. So not having secure borders poses a threat for national security, which could also become another problem.
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Worse than what? Prove to me it's a problem. People are mad because an immigrant will dig ditches for a dollar less an hour than white boy who failed out of high school because he can't read who wouldn't dig the ditch regardless. What we need to be worried about is making sure that guy can read so he doesn't fail out of school in the first place.
I went to Southern GA for spring break and stopped in this little cafe on the way back. Two girls who looked to be 16-18 were working there. One of them had to write Potato Salad on the special board and couldn't spell Potato OR Salad. It took the two a good combined 10 minutes to come up with Potatoe Salad. THAT'S a problem. THAT'S what we need to be worried about.
It infuriates me that people will put our country further into horrific debt trying to shift the blame for their problems to someone else. If they would just admit that we have huge problems with education, health care, and foriegn policy maybe we could make actual progress instead of throwing money at a straw man to make us feel better.
My. $.02
JC