I find that many people consider the immigration issue a blatant left-right matter. It isn't. I also find that no Lefties seem to comprehend the arguments against the Senate Immigration Bill.
I don't personally agree with most of the reasons against the bill but I think it is important for intelligent conversation among my friends that there is a clear understanding of the objections to the Senate Immigration Bill. Let me exclude three parts of that bill from my explanation.
One part of the bill expands the H1B visas for highly skilled workers from all over the world. Another part gives green cards to graduates of American universities with technical degrees. There is still a third part that deals with workers providing temporary visas for migratory farmworkers. Since these parts are important to commercial productivity there seems to be little or no political opposition.
The opposition focuses on creating a road to citizenship for the illegals already in the country including those who grew up and were educated here; the so-called ‘Dream Act’.
The opposition to the citizenship path deals nearly 100% with Mexican and Central American immigrants. The explicit objection is that any leniency in granting citizenship to this group will result in new waves of immigration across our porous Southern border. This is most evident from the prevailing talk radio argument that the ‘border must be closed’ before the immigration bill is taken seriously.
There is no such concern about the Canadian border.
So what is it about Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border that particularly concerns so many Americans?
The answer: Mexicans have a distinctly different culture than people coming from Canada.
* They come from a socialist country and are likely to vote 90% Democrat-Union.
* They come from a culture that is cancerous with corruption; in the cities that they control in the United States corruption is rampant Examples are Bell and Southgate in Los Angeles.
* Mexicans and Central Americans have a culture that is hostile to education.
*Lastly, among many adult immigrants, learning the English language is not given a high priority.
I do not agree with these characterizations but I understand that the media provides information to support these views. To a large extent they are accurate while ignoring the positive side of the Mexican contributions.
I would say that it is these cultural differences that make Mexican immigration particularly troublesome to Americans.