Here is IMO a good description of how we got here and where we are headed. It began with Clinton. The article names names and organizations.
It's where we're headed that concerns me the most; to wit, a kind of organization worldwide that controls migrant labor as the WTO controls "free trade."
http://www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2004/0411corpimm.html
Following the history of how we got to where we are in the U.S. (minus the most recent event of the exploding opposition to ILLEGAL immigration and the problems it's going to cause proponents of managed migration) here's where we are headed vis-a-vis globalization, etc.
[Begin excerpt]
"The same idea of managed migration -- stopping spontaneous migration, and channeling migrants into temporary worker programs -- is a growing part of policies of countries throughout the European Union towards those who come from outside its borders. They all reflect an increasing effort to include migration within the world economic order managed by industrial nations.
"While this is a convenient arrangement for wealthy nations, it has severe disadvantages for poorer ones. The cost of maintaining and reproducing this international migrant labor force falls on countries least able to afford it. And increasingly, the remittances of migrant workers have become the main source of income for the communities from which they come. In fact, remittances from abroad are now the first or second largest source of national income for countries like Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and others. The system of managed migration simply institutionalizes this arrangement. Large corporations and industries of wealthy countries get the benefit of this labor force, and workers themselves pay the cost of maintaining it.
"Developing countries do, however, have an alternative framework for protecting the rights and status of this migrant population. The UN’s International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families proposes an alternative framework for dealing with migration. It supports the right of family reunification, establishes equality of treatment with citizens of the host country, and prohibits collective deportation. Both sending and receiving countries are responsible for protecting migrants, and retain the right to determine who is admitted to their territories, and who has the right to work. The Convention recognizes the global scale and permanence of migration, and starts by protecting the rights of migrants themselves.
"Predictably, the countries that have ratified it are the sending countries. Those countries most interested in guest worker schemes, like the U.S. and Britain, have not." [End excerpt]
The illegal influx predates Clinton. And it continues under Clinton's successor. The decision to allow this country to be flooded with Third World illegals is BIPARTISAN. I joined freerepublic in 98 to protest Clinton. But more and more I'm realizing that Clinton was one side of the proverbial two sided coin. So i've taken a LOT of flak on freerepublic in the last two years for pointing out that Bush is leading us to socialism ,, perhaps at a faster clip than clinton, because Bush doesnt' face opposition from Republicans and conservatives who would stand up and protest if Clinton was doing the same policies.
Meanwhile, Bush got us into an unnecesary war - at a cost of 300 billion !!! -- that had the effect of making any criticism of Bush off-limits among conservatives (because he's a "wartime leader")
Why was Iraq invasion unnecessary? Because Iraq wasn't involved in 9-11 and didn't have WMDs. If we really were fighting a war on terror, why didn't Bush first secure our own borders? That's how a country that's truly fighting a war on terror - i.e. Israel - does it. Instead, we sent troops and treasure halfway across the world to fight a fourth world country that had no army or air force - or wmds - that would pose us any danger. Saddam was a dictator on the order of Castro - but we don't invade Cuba to free Castro's people. Freedom at home should be the first priority - and defending our borders, in order to protect from terrorism. Instead, we get creeping "war socialism" and open borders that turn the Southwest into an extention of Latin america with all its turmoil, poverty and corruption. Thanks Bush - - NOT.