The federal government has for the past 30 or so years done an unacceptable job of enforcing our immigration and depotation laws.
We all knew it. We just didn’t know how adversely it was going to affect us. Now we know.
I suppose Presidents Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II were unaware to some extent, as we all were--just as they were unaware of the threat that Al Qaida et al. posed.
Even so, there is no excuse for not closing the Mexican Border now and halting further illegal immigration.
I hate mindless optimism, but Bush's position may carry some weight in encouraging some amnestized illegal aliens to support the Republican Party--or whatever takes its place if it has been mortally wounded--and not give knee-jerk support to the dangerous, decadent, Marxist, anti-American Democrat politicians.
If I were convinced that all these illegal aliens would vote the Democrats out of office, I would support amnesty and personally place a welcome mat on the Rio Grande.
Frankly--I would gladly swap ten Mexican immigrants for every gringo Leftist that we could expel from the country.
I'm not particularly concerned with illegal immigration or amnesty, per se. What I'm concerned about is enlarging the Democrat base support. It is the Left that is the greatest threat to the United States and the world, and the Democrat Party is its political machine. It is decadence. It is the enabler of America's enemies abroad. If left unchecked it will destroy the United States from within--note tagline. That's what I'm concerned about.
If immigrants from Latin America--or anywhere else--would help destroy the Left, I would welcome them with open arms!