Dunno know about you but I'm really getting tired of all of the illegal aliens rhetoric. I suppose I'm a bit biased, as I come from a city that made a living off people who weren't naturalized citizens. Additionally, I now live in a region which has a dearth of jobs, so nobody would risk life and limb to come here.
Nonetheless, it seems that this sort of conversation intensifies as the US economy takes a dive. I suppose that if the economy was thriving and unemployment rates were manageable, there really wouldn't be very much discussion. Moreover, I believe it really is a diversionary tactic, as the country has far more pressing problems (ie rising fuel costs, conservation plans, technology shortage, etc).
I don't buy the argument that illegal aliens will drive this country to ruins. Simply apocolypse rhetoric.
Heck wasn't there a song glorifying illegal aliens in the 80's?
I'm also a bit biased about the immigration issues mainly because my parents are immigrants and so were the parents of 99% of my friends while I was growing up. I do feel as though they're using the immigrant debate/issue to commoflage the bigger problem we're facing as an country. Our economy and the fact that our education system is in ruins.
Whenever this country is in crisis it looks to people of color as the culprit.... it's just that simple.