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What is that supposed to mean? Don't blacks who are American citizens have the right to expect their government will look out for their best interests? Don't all citizens? Black people in this country have been screwed by our immigration laws over and over, going back to the last half of the 19th century. Everytime the labor supply was such that they started getting ahead, the government opened the floodgates and brought in millions of foreigers to compete with them for jobs, and drive down wages. The time they made the fastest economic gains was the period between the 1930s and 1965, when regular immigration quotas were kept at all time lows.

I particulary didn't understand this, "Illegals taking jobs they might will be reserved for a later complaint..."

If we apply the laws as we should, all these illegals will disappear and I believe more opportunity will be available. Do you think the Black Caucus silence is to benefit the blacks? I believe it is to keep them reliant on the government by limiting any opportunity for them to progress. So in essence they are saving the argument for a later date to support any and all programs, but most importantly the vote, to their advantage.

Your post #9 is poignantly on target. As a white living in MA, I have been perplexed for years that Senator Kennedy has been working tirelessly since 1965 to flood the country with immigrants, legal and illegal, who are in direct competition for jobs with the poorest American citizens. So many of the citizens who need those jobs, who need that first step up onto the ladder into the middle class, are blacks — the very voters that Kennedy and the Democrats rely so heavily upon. Clearly, the Democrats take the black vote for granted, and pay only lip service to black interests.

And so I have asked black acquaintances why blacks are not objecting loudly to our open borders, to the family reunification emphasis in our immigration policy. The reply is always that they are aware of what is happening, but they don’t know what to do about it - no black or Democrat leader has gone near the problem. I tell them that conservatives who want to switch legal immigration to a skills-based criterion, who want to close the borders and shut down jobs for illegals so that they will self-deport, are their best allies. But it seems that most blacks are unwilling to vote for anyone but a Democrat — even when they understand that the Democrats are often their worst enemies.

On many occasions I have called and emailed Senators Kerry and Kennedy and asked why they promote an immigration policy that is so harmful to poor and black American citizens. Neither has ever paid me the courtesy of a reply.