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I propose Arnold give illegal aliens from Mexico repicrocal rights.

The same as Mexico allows an American citizen in buying and/or owning a business in Mexico

The same as Mexico allows an American citizen in buying and/or owning property in Mexico.

Mexico requires American businesses to pay blackmail by giving a government "connected" goon a partnership share.

Mexico will not give full property rights to any property owner; courts can grab them for their buddies at any time.

Mexico will not give free hospital care to Americans.

Mexico will not give any aid or welfare to non-Mexicans.

Mexico has been a corrupt criminal enterprise with Commie agendas for a century and was no better before then.

Stuff it Mexican politicians.

We consider you scumbag targets.

You have zero right to complain about America.

Mexico also voted against us in the UN Re: Iraq.

Mexico is our enemy.

I have lived and worked in Mexico, and I frankly love it there.

But it is what it is.

The immigration question is forever being muddied with arguments that are not germaine to the question. Supposedly they do jobs that legal workers won't do. That is false, these jobs got done before the floodgates were opened, flooding the labor market with workers who will not insist on their legal rights, and whose presence depresses the wage rates.

Americans won't take these jobs at the wage offered, and the working conditions as they often are. But traditionally Americans have always done their own work. Close the borders and the wages will probably double overnight, and you will have takers for those jobs. In the fifties my older relatives worked those same fields, traveling state to state with the kids.

They say that cheap labor is the engine that is driving the American economy. But that really isn't true either, or Mexico itself would be an economic powerhouse.

Cheap labor is not the source of our prosperity. Expensive labor has built domestic markets for American goods, and has also driven the mechanization and modernization of American industry. Expensive labor is an important part of American prosperity.

Expensive labor is also part of what made Americans as egalitarian in their outlook as they are. And the fact that Americans have always done their own hard labor made them the handy, practical, common sense people that they were. Only a few short years ago blue collar workers could earn wages that rivaled and occasionally surpassed those of white collar workers. But blue collar wages have been flat for a couple of decades in part because there is an endless supply of people prepared to work for less.

Illegal workers are not just taking farming jobs. They are working in every industry.

We are receiving a million immigrants per year. There is no reason that number should be as high as it is. There has never been a national debate on the subject, we have never spoken out as a people to demand that a million be admitted as opposed to some other number. When did our public servants ever ask for our input?