I’ve heard the estimated number of “illegals” in the U.S. is above 20 million people. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 50 million .

–Remort

Mr. Hans GB, you contemptible cunt

Just the sort of language one would expect of a braindead cockroach apologist for a contemptible racist; save your idiotic rants for someone stupid enough to think it legitimate to assign merit or blame to others based merely on accidents of nationality: I don’t care what country you come from, you’d still be a mannerless idiot.

With 6 million undocumented workers, obviously the government isn’t trying hard enough to crack down. If Uncle Sam’s spooks can pour through billions of google searches and tens of millions of mobile phone records, one wonders why it’s so easy for 6 million Mexicans and Central Americans to work in plain sight. Let’s just admit that the present system is not working and introduce a guest worker program, which Canada has already done.

Mexico has absolutely no opportunities for social mobility. If you’re born poor, you die poor, the same goes with the upper class, born rich, you die rich. There is no middle-class in Mexico at all.

The problem is, politically and economically, President Fox of Mexico wants to totally deny any sort of social benefits to its peasantry population, except for the 3% of the population that is in the upper-class which really doesn’t need any assistance. Meanwhile, something like 20 to 40% of all Mexican citizens are residing in the U.S. either legally or illegally, while the U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for their social services and healthcare. This is not to say that Mexicans are the only culprits in the illegal immigration matter, but they do make up the vast majoritiy of “illegals” in the U.S.

In no way, shape or form can Mexico be considered a “poor” country. Inevitably, this social inbalance will most likely lead to a revolution in Mexico, and probably one in China too in the very near future, as the US more closely scrutinizes its trade and immigration policies.

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, if people are uneducated and unwilling to fight for their rights, others will continue to exploit and profit from their labor.

dogbertt & Zonath:

Also, the U.S. government has focused on the illegal immigration problem by conducting nationwide raids on businesses over the last few months. However, in every single instance, the government agents have simply processed the illegal workers making sure they don’t have any warrants or criminal records, and then simply released them. In some instances, token fines were handed out to the employers.

–Remort

Zonath, I’ve wondered myself why the government doesn’t focus more on the employers rather than the employees…I don’t get it. If they really want to make illegal labor stop, then make it unprofitable to the employers.

The U.S. government has tried that. Since the IRCA came into force in 1986, employers are required at the time of hiring to confirm the employee’s citizenship status and are subject to fines, with some employers having been fined millions of dollars for having hired illegal aliens.

Ah, Mr. Hans Great Britain.

I am not American. I dislike the American Republican party. I wish Gore would have won….

Mr. Hans GB, you contemptible cunt,

- would the continent that slaughtered Africa please hold your tongue when you feel like self-righteous denunciations of America?

- would the continent that enslaved Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sudan, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya and Madagascar please refrain from slavery? Would the European continent stop slavery on it’s doorstep. Islam = slavery in Africa, that is all.

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You left out Irish Catholic.