California on the Brink

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I suppose if no one hired illegals they wouldn't come over the border so much would they?

Which is the case; the illegal influx is down in proportion to the dip in the economy and likewise the dip in hiring. By no means is it enough to wipe the problem out, but then really the United States doesn't have an immigration problem so much as other countries have a middle class problem: they have to generate one, and how are they going to do it? If the countries we have an immigration problem from were to grow middle classes large enough to be visible without magnification, we'd stop having much of a situation with people trying to break in to the place to partake of its opportunties.

I can't name another country that suffers from this problem, let alone the problem on this dozen-million-people scale.