The problem isn't race, it's a lack of basic education on the fundamental principles this country was founded on. Normally, all immigrants wether from South America, Europe or wherever have to take basic civics classes in order to become citizens. My father who barely escaped Latvia as a child when the Soviets invaded had to go through the process.Good posts Gleet. With respect to your last paragraph, Cuban immigrants, and pre-CT (pre Chung Tran) immigrants from Vietnam who lived under a true Communist regime, vote predominately for Republicans.
Immigrants I have met are more knowledgeable about the constitution then people who grew up here and went to public schools.
The goal is to have immigrants who are ignorant of the constitution and use the race angle as a weapon against conservatives.
This seems to be backfiring though as many immigrants from South and Central America are escaping Communist regimes and know what it looks like in its larval form. Originally Posted by JohnnyGleet
As such, I believe we should encourage immigration from Vietnam and Cuba. And it's not just how people vote. There's a long running thread in the Men's Lounge, bitching about how we don't have enough Vietnamese hookers in this country. And Cuban strippers have been a boon to clubs across America.
I'm also for legal immigration of highly trained doctors, engineers, scientists, mechanics, and nurses and the like, people who will put more into the system than take out of it.
IF they didn't have children (who automatically become U.S. citizens and who are likely to vote like their parents) and if they didn't become citizens and if they also put more into the system than they took out, lesser skilled foreign workers would be desirable from my point of view too. Austin Gleeson and Stephen Moore were doing their weekly debate on Fox News this morning, and someone noted there are 11.4 million jobs available and only 5.9 million people looking for jobs. That's a big gap, that could be filled by foreign workers.
Another problem is that once someone has U.S. citizenship, he or she starts pulling in all their relatives, who may not be as qualified to make a contribution to our country.
Immigrants who take out, through government programs and services, more than they put in are natural constituencies of the Democratic Party. I think that's one reason why some Democrats favor illegal immigration, with a view towards making the immigrants citizens.
George W. Bush had the right idea, some kind of expanded guest worker program for lesser skilled immigrants, designed to avoid displacing American workers. There's a lot of work in this country that Americans just don't want to do.