I have to wonder why so many Republican party hacks cling to the so-far-unrealized pipe dream that Mexicans are conservative and will soon all become loyal Republicans. This has not been the case with prior waves of poor immigrants. Further, Mexico is radically different from the US in its political and social values: more secular, more socialist, and more corrupt. Someone is supporting and voting for this system. Only the elites have begun to lean towards the moderately conservative PAN party. Daniel Larison does a good job of expounding on the gap between Republican hopes and reality:
It might be interesting, for historical purposes, to establish where the bulk of the primarily Mexican immigrants originally come from inside their own country, and what their religious habits and political preferences in Mexico are before they leave. [ed. note: Along these lines, I understand more left-wing parts of Mexico feed the immigration to more-left-wing California, whereas Chihuahua and the Monterrey area feed the more conservative Texas.] Perhaps some work on this has already been done–but if it has, you won’t see any enthusiasts for mass immigration referring to any of it. They are simply recycling stereotypes of what they assume poor immigrant folk must be like, perhaps because some of our own ancestors were like that when they came here a century or more ago. If modern Mexican society has its fair share of religious, conservative and highly family-oriented people, which presumably it does, these folks tend to be PAN voters and I suspect they are fairly satisfied where they are; the people from the neighbourhoods of the giant sprawl of Mexico City, who routinely vote for the most left-wing alternative, the PRD, probably have different religious and political priorities that few American Hispanics or white Protestant Republicans would understand, much less share. They will not only already want to take the “blue pill,” so to speak, but they will not have even considered the possibility of voting for the American version of PAN.
It is my guess, though I might be mistaken, that we are invariably getting a lot more PRI and PRD voters through mass immigration than we are getting the “religious, conservative and family-oriented” ones. (To be fair, it may be that some PRI and PRD voters are also religious and family-oriented in some sense, but they are definitely not conservative and do not understand their religious and family commitments as a natural or obvious fit with conservative politics of the PAN or Republican variety.) Not that having masses of the conservative and religious folks illegally entering this country would be any better, but it would at least make this one largely irrelevant claim of the open borders crowd more credible.
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Thanks for bringing clarification to the problem…the Mexican immigrants coming here are NOT middle class, or they wouldn’t be coming here.
Asians, East Asians and Arabs coming here DO tend to be middle class and for the most part have educations and wealth to contribute. The poor Mexicans have only their blue collar “Labor” which we don’t need because we have plenty of under-educated Americans that need the blue collar jobs that are left.
It’s also important to remember that the largely the same idiots who are arguing that the USA can impose an American style secular humanist democracy and consumerism by force of arms on the Muslim East, are largely the SAME people arguing for amnesty and increased immigration from Mexico can be absorbed with political or cultural consequenses.
The Liberals and the Leftists of course, harbor no such illusions..they support unrestrained immigration because they want to undercut American Democracy.
The most conservative of principles is that Democracy is fragile, and is based on cultural roots that are unique to Western Civilization.
While the CEO classes might see the world as their marketplace, and thus an opportunity to make more money, given the quaqmire in the Mideast, the very idea of invading the world to make it safe for their enterprises is just another retread of failed British style Imperialism…World government for Wall Street.
Back when common sense was in fashion, even in the United States, it was considered perfectly reasonable to choose immigrants who brought with them something useful to the country (even if it was only physical labor, which at one time was widely needed).
After 60 years of liberalism and radical egalitarianism, the idea of discriminating in favor of immigrants who offer a net benefit, and barring those who are just going to be a drain on the country and create social problems, is considered so shocking that nobody dares to express it in public.
What is wrong with us?