Why do you suppose congress and the Bush administration have done nothing to secure our borders?

Answer 1

republicans want cheap labor and democrats want votes.

Answer 2

Because Democrats want the minority votes when it comes to immigration and don't have the votes to overcome a veto on Port Security.

The Bush Administration has done nothing for three reasons. First, Republicans LOVE cheap labor. Second, another terrorist attack on US soil, would let them invoke the PATRIOT Acts nastier provisions. And third, because Bush supports the North American Union which would make our current borders obsolete anyway.

Answer 3

because their friends that own businesses depend on low wages that the illegal immigrants will accept, things like health insurance and other outrageous demands for benefits those companies will not have to pay. Why do you think the NAtional Chamber of Commerces was lobbying so heavily for the so-called Immigration comprehensive bill? They pressured the White house to get what they were paying (contributions) for. You watch, already Chertoff is saying it will be brought up again, this time they will say all the illegals that are commiting crimes can be stopped with a comprehensive immigration bill. A few more murders here and there by hispanic illegal immigrants and they will ty to stick it to the American Public again.

Answer 4

I suppose you have to look at the question in its most elemental form. What is the essential nature of this problem.

Lets' look at some of the 5 W's.

_What_ does the Latino immigrant represent by and large: Undocumented, low-skill, typically young, typically relatively healthy, low-wage people with limited access to legal redress and limited knowledge of our culture, language and government who are nearly universally poor.

This increases cost pressures on our social / law / educational / judicial and medical services.
This decreases wages across those work groups where these workers can effectively compete (low skill / manual labor jobs).
This naturally increases the demand for low-cost, affordable housing.

_Why_ would someone want/encourage/fail to stop such an influx from occurring in such an unregulated way? & Who/whom does such an influx help or benefit in our society?

Business markets benefit in a few ways.
1. Increased people mean increased markets for basic goods and services - we are a largely service based economy so this is a good thing.
2. Sales Taxes and other transactional tax revenues are increased which is also good.
3. Increased cheap and relatively easily exploitable workforce for undesirable, dangerous or non-permanent work which domestic workers typically shun.

Taxpayers and ultimately the collective US population benefits longer term, if (AND ONLY IF) immigration / residency naturally leads to citizenship and taxation since a large tax base is a good thing.



When did this significantly change , it's possible that in the past immigration was not such a problem determining the time of increase may help find indications of why it's occurring in that we look to find an internal reason but ones may not exist, an external reason or reasons may be to blame.

This is an unknown and would require more than Yahoo to answer.

But to be fair it's a combination of whatever answers we determine since the cause is going to be complicated, since there are no immediately obvious answers external or internal answers, (Mexico for instance is not in the middle of a bloody civil war, nor are any of the states south of there, except Guatemala and some parts of Honduras and Columbia)

Ethically, patriotically, this is a decidedly mixed bag. If there were more controls and checks, I'm strongly pro immigration, however, seeing how social services have not been kept up to snuff in light of the obviously increased demand for services, means we are pretty badly screwing ourselves if we don't commit a proportional amount of resources to covering ourselves when it comes to these essentials.

In this age of black and while blue and red, I submit that a mix of deterrence and increased accommodation (sticks and carrots) are probably the best method of addressing this problem for as long as the immigration pressures exist.

Encouraging permanent residency and naturalization of contributing immigrants is the benefit to this arrangement since they will be in all likelihood a net benefit to our society from a INCREASE in tax base.

While certainly there are the occasional bad apple criminal low-life, This occasional occurance is in stark contrast to countries in the European community where they have the rather less than desirable option of bringing culturally divergent Muslims into their countries. While this is not inherently a problem, the failure on both sides to accommodate each other's needs means that the Muslims in England, Germany, France etc, do NOT always integrate successfully into the national fabric and since both extremism and violence are potentially consequent to these dis-integrated , disenfranchised conditions, these countries will have problems we DON'T want.

To be fair we don't make and especially hard effort to assimilate or integrate , but a large Latino population has already covered that ground, making initial integration for Latinos MUCH more relatively easy than it is / would be for Ethnic Malaysians or Algerians, Sudanese or Turks to integrate.

Answer 5

Because the rich people who run the country rely on the influx of poor migrants in order to keep the middle class at bay.

Answer 6

Open borders certainly seem to be in their own best interest for one reason or another. Wonder how long Joe Public will allow it to continue.

Answer 7

Because they are too scared to disappoint those who flap their dollars in their faces as 'promisory' notes to secure their popularity! Sheer weaklings who don't have confidence about their self-capability/talents to stand by principles and laws and have to depend on being bought to look good in public eyes.

Answer 8

Cheap labor and to break the American uppity middle class. Both parties want the illegals here.

Answer 9

They aren't even pretending to care about this issue.Because they know the North American Union is coming in 2010.

Answer 10

I believe this illegal border crossing has been going on for a lot longer than this man has been President...although we all know you blame him for everything. The question should be more like "why do businesses continue to hire illegals". It all starts at the bottom, not the top!

Answer 11

Because a HUGE percentage of our manpower and funds are being allocated to help other countries, including Iraq.

And given the resources available, it's not a physically achievable task.