Illegal Immigrants in USA

<p>Sighs…the Senate passed a resolution to accept the guest-worker program.</p>

<p>**The Senate Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to approve legislation that would create a guest-worker program and legalize the approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants already in this country, provided they pass criminal checks, learn to speak English, and pay back taxes and other fines.</p>

<p>Part of the Senate legislation establishes a guest-worker program that would allow about 400,000 foreigners to come to the United States each year to work.</p>

<p>If it passes, the current legislation would create the largest guest-worker program since the bracero program that brought 4.6 million Mexican agricultural workers into the country between 1942 and 1960, according to The New York Times. **</p>

<p>400,000 immigrants a year…Good god…</p>

<p>Corporations win. American citizens lose.</p>

<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that senators rejected another bill sponsored by two border-state Republicans that would have required guest workers and undocumented immigrants to return home.</p>

<p>Why am I not surprised? If you are here legally, you can stay. If you’re not here illegally, you need to return home!</p>

<p>Source: Diversity, Inc.</p>

<p>When people finally realize that every decision made by the government of this country is driven by corporate greed, and NOT the good of the American people, we might be looking for some real change.</p>

<p>This legislation is absolutely expected.</p>

<p>In The Times this mroning…</p>

<p>**By US and United Nations estimates, the US population is expected to increase at an astounding rate. In 1990 it was 249 million; now it is 298 million; by 2050 it is expected to be 420 million. </p>

<p>That is a jump of 70 per cent, or 170 million, in only 60 years. The rate already eclipses the record 1910 wave of European immigration. </p>

<p>It is bound to make the US more introverted, with preoccupations very different from Europe’s. Those who protest against the US’s “overbearing” foreign policy should consider how hard it may become to keep it interested in the rest of the world when it faces such a revolution at home.**</p>

<p>490 million is kinda crowded…</p>

<p>I’ll be in New Zealand feelin’ sorry for y’all in your crowded warrens…</p>

<p>(wishful thinking)</p>