It is a losing battle but not for the reason you might think: the real reason is because there really is no persuasive argument IN FAVOR OF a policy which harms many US citizens, just to benefit
1. Global governance agendas;
2. Corporations and other business persons;
3. Citizens from other nations.
Yes, those are the three chief beneficiaries of illegal immigration.
The first two are the draw for President Bush and his kind.
If those first two stopped being a motivation, he would drop his amnesty crusade like a flaming potato.
But even if all these efforts were only for the sake of the illegal immigrants, it would be wrong because it harms Americans.
Just as parents must take care of their own children before the neighbor's, so must a nation take care of its own people before the people of a neighboring nation.
Please realize that you have misapprehended the position, if you think it is based on some sort of ethnic prejudice inculcated in childhood.
My own growing years would be instructive here:
Raised in southern California I attended a Catholic grade school ...at least half of the sixty children in my classroom each and every year were Mexican children.
We learned together, played together, belonged to the same church parish, had each other over to one another's houses ...I had no problem with them or vice versa and still don't, to this very day.
They were the children of people who had come to the US legally; illegal immigration was not much of a problem at all back then - it happened, but not on any sort of large scale.
Their having come to the US legally takes care of two issues which are quite important to me now:
1. It means that they were screened for infectious disease and violent criminal history - which illegal immigrants are NOT (with very distressing consequences which have become apparent in the past few years).
2. It means that their numbers were taken into account in a ballpark fashion by the designers of infrastructure (roads, water resources, schools, hospitals, prisons, and so forth).
I think you will find that my reasons are similar to those of most of the 85% of Americans who want the border effectively secured, and it has nothing to do with our childhoods or with ethnic prejudices.
It is insulting to compare black Americans and American Indians to the people who breech our borders.
Blacks and Indians have more than paid their dues; they are as much citizens as the Europeans who founded this nation.
Another group whose face is slapped every time an amnesty is granted ...is the huge group of Latino immigrants who have taken the trouble to come here in a legal way.
More on that later.
