There is plenty of space in the US for people to come live here. Take a road trip anywhere and you'll have your fair share of reminding.

You are not leaving your position at God knows where to do the mineal jobs they are willing to get done - efficiently if I might add.

Laslty, you came from somewhere else too. If you believe that they need to go home, then I suggest you get a head start on your packing.

'One of the most forceful critiques of America's consumerist culture for its failure to embrace more humane values came in a document the American Catholic bishops issued in 1997 on Hispanics' role in the Church's evangelization efforts. "In our country, the modern technological, functional mentality creates a world of replaceable individuals incapable of authentic solidarity," the bishops wrote. "In its place, society is grouped by artificial arrangements created by powerful economic interests. The common good is an increasingly dull, sterile, consumer conformism... created by artificial needs promoted by the media to support powerful economic interests."

The bishops voiced the hope that Latino culture, with its own ethos, "historically inseparable from the Catholic faith," might balance American culture's consumerism. They specifically noted certain characteristics of Hispanic culture that stand in opposition to our technological society. "A welcoming disposition to what is unexpected, new and unplanned; simplicity... a love for home, land, and an extended view of family," as well as "an awareness that... persons are more important than things, personal relations more fulfilling than material success, and serenity more valuable than life in the fast lane." The bishops were quick to note that Latinos were not the only people to possess such an ethos but that these qualities were also more than "merely folkloric stereotypes." It would be difficult to find a text more prophetic and populist than this, or more hostile to the vested economic and political interests that have caused so many Americans to view politics as captive to special interests. The document should be ammunition for the Democrats' unseating of the Republicans' social Darwinism."'

We should remember that Hispanics represent the future of the US church, certainly by demographics. We should also remember than prejudice against Hispanic culture was a core component of nativist anti-Catholicism, a prejudice that is alive and kicking in today's immigration debates.

The above link was sent to me by loyal follower Brian.  My apologies to Brian for not posting this sooner.  (I was in the north woods at the time.)  The news is a little old, but no less noteworthy. 

It seems that a federal judge ruled against the Programmers' Guild, siding with the Department of Homeland Security, who wanted to afford foreign "students" the right to remain continuously in the U.S. for 2-1/2 years after graduation, robbing U.S. workers of highly paid programming work.  It seems that the judge couldn't see how increasing the labor supply would result in lower wages for American workers.

Unbelievable!  I have often been very critical of economists who are unwilling to look past their noses at the consequences of overpopulation - a labor force that rises faster than consumption, driving up unemployment and poverty.  But at least economists do understand the law of supply and demand, and that a rising supply will depress the price of any given commodity.  It seems inconceivable that a judge, a supposedly intelligent, educated person, could be incapable of grasping something that even an economist can understand!

Is that really the problem, or is it a matter of yielding to the indirect influence of corporations, the benefactors of the administration that appointed this judge, eager to assure that their labor force is kept in a constant state of oversupply? 

As I said in Five Short Blasts, this is where the work to scale back our ridiculous rate of immigration needs to begin, with dramatically cutting the number of foreign students and the number of temporary workers, thus cutting off the "non-immigrant visa" pipeline that feeds the supply of "legal permanent residents."  (See Figure 9-4 on page 180 of the book.) 

Thanks, Brian!  Keep us informed if you see more of this.

Mais les faits sont têtus. La Libye vient indirectement de reconnaître, en s’engageant désormais à surveiller ses côtes en contrepartie d’une indemnité financière de l’Italie pour clore un contentieux post-colonial, qu’elle utilisait l’immigration comme moyen de pression en direction de l’Europe et notamment de l’Italie. Pour sa part, l’Espagne socialiste vient d’admettre l’irrationalité consistant, face à la montée du chômage, à faire venir des travailleurs extérieurs. "Il ne semble pas raisonnable que sur un marché comme l’Espagne, où nous avons 2,5 millions de personnes au chômage, nous recrutions encore des gens dans leur pays d’origine", estime le ministre du Travail et de l’Immigration, Celestino Corbacho, qui annonce un recrutement "proche de zéro" en 2009. La France, qui n’enorgueillit de son "immigration choisie",  ne ferait-elle pas fausse route ?....

source : blog.lefigaro