each illegal is a potential demo vote.
Each person with any clue is pretty much a Dem vote, too.
Are you honest enough to admit anything Obama does, you would criticize?
Fact is it's not an easy issue. Reagan basically provided amnesty for all illegals and didn't 'build an effective fence', wonder why?
Hint on something we do to cause the problem:
Mexico had a large small corn farmer industry. Nearly half of their agricultural workers were corn farmers.
NAFTA was signed.
The US provided large subsidies to its own corporate corn farmers.
American corn flooded Mexico, slashing the price and destroying most of their industry.
This created large numbers of Mexican corn farmers needing new income.
The largest numbers of immigrants looking for work are reportedly from the corn farming regions.
When NAFTA was passed, large protections for Canada's agriculture industry were put in place.
Not for Mexico.
When you want to ask, 'what do you mean, we've helped cause poverty in Mexico', here's an example.
What, a policy was put in place that made big US corporate profits without concern for the effects disrupting Mexicans? Shocking!
This is the sort of thing that happens when corporations control policy rather than politicians who can actually try to plan for effects like that - not to screw people.
As one report summarized:
As the studys results demonstrate, billions of dollars of federal subsidies for American-grown corn are largely responsible for the economic displacement of Mexicos corn farmers. The impact of U.S. corn subsidies has severely transformed the lives of people who have no influence on U.S. policies. This economic vulnerability of Mexican farmers was initiated through the approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The inclusion of the agricultural sector within the agreements broader agenda of trade liberalization exposed Mexicans employed in agriculture to U.S. domestic economic policies. (It is important to note that U.S.-Canada side of the agreement contrastingly maintains significant restrictions to protect the Canadian agricultural sector). Although these subsidies produced an increase in the corporate ownership of corn production, a decrease in corn prices, and dwindling numbers of employed corn farmersnot to mention the displacement and forced migration of Mexican corn farmersMexican voters have no voice in congressional deliberations regarding the approval of federal subsidies for American-grown corn.
