Comments by "Frenchie’s Philosophy" (@tsuich00i) on "George W. Bush on Immigration: 'The System Is Broken' | The New York Times" video.

  1. "what do we get" Well right now we get something very lucrative in a globalized world: Cheap labor. Also, its hard to apply for social services when you cant provide a valid ID. I know, I have a condition, and they ask for it all the time. 11 million was the number I had read, but you may very well be correct- its sorta hard to confirm the exact number of a group which is by its nature, "off the radar" so to speak.
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  2. difficult, but not impossible- Today, the boats may be planes, and color of the people on board, even more diverse, but the motives remain the same. While it may be true most were Europeans, being a different color, or adhereing to some strange religion or radical political ideology doesn't have the same "shock value" that it once did in Puritan/Victorian America. Comfort levels based on familiarity and other aspects are largely what determine assimilation or coexistence, that, has not changed.
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  3. In this context, the Latin America culture may differ greatly from American view, though Catholicism, that one western concept in the midst of a sea of otherwise foreign ideas, makes many Hispanics more accessible and easier to relate to in a Christian dominated America, much like their Irish and Italian predecessors- the real challenge is for people coming from the east- China, India, and the middle east, who have diametrically opposing ways of life to that of those in west.
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  4. Besides blind faith, what you fail to realize is a large portion of the labor market is dominated by illegal immigrants, because employers choose not to abide by the minimum wage. Yet whom do we choose to judge- the one desperate to feed his family, and not the one who elects to forgo the law out of greed. The question I pose is a moral one, but the fact of the matter is immigration reform is more about feasibility- Necessitated by the shear impossibility of apprehending some 11 million people.
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  5. You seam obsessed with the notion that you are being cheated, when really these are usually people who came to America for what we all originally came to this country for- Opportunity- Legitimately or otherwise. Irish Catholics for example, who were ushered into this country in overwhelming numbers after their great potato famine, were once despised. Now, they are as American as apple pie.
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