[Poohbah]

Alot of stuff happened in '65, so finding cause & effect might not be that simple.

The big issue is that the Mexicans, by and large, came up for the season, by themselves, and headed back down to Mexico in the off-season.

After the guest worker program ended, each border crossing became a hazard. To minimize the level of risk, the now-illegal aliens crossed ONCE and stayed here. They also started bringing their families with them.

[skeeter]

After the guest worker program ended, each border crossing became a hazard. To minimize the level of risk, the now-illegal aliens crossed ONCE and stayed here. They also started bringing their families with them.

I'd feel alot better if the safety net were removed for such workers, and they were exempted from the provisions of the 14th Amendment as its currently interpreted (maybe something else could be enacted to provide them a reasonable level of protection, but no anchor babies).

But I'm not hearing anything like this from the president.

[puroresu]

The reason the immigrant problem got worse after 1965 wasn't because of the end of the guest worker program. It was because they passed the 1965 immigration law that year. The purpose of that bill, unstated at the time, was to slowly phase out the existing population of the U.S. and replace it with another population.

As millions of third worlders flooded into our nation after enactment of the 1965 act, it became politically harder to enforce the remaining immigration laws without appearing "racist" (the justification for the 1965 act was that it would eliminate the "racism" from our immigration laws). So we started looking the other way on illegal immigration. Eventually, there were millions of illegals here. Then, we were told it would be too hard, not to mention "racist", to deport them. So we gave them amnesty in 1985 after being assured the government would enforce the laws against illegal immigration from then on.

Of course, that promise wasn't kept, and millions of additional illegals have flooded in. Now we're preparing to legalize them as well.

What we're seeing before our very eyes is the displacement of the American people by aliens bent on "reconquest" of the southwest. The result in 30 years will be a very militant, very leftist Spanish speaking version of Quebec, propped up by a block of ten leftist Mestizo U.S. senators and a massive block of similar House members from California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada circa 2030, if not sooner.