Here are the key sections of the Fourteenth Amendment. From The Fourteenth Amendment: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. This says that the Congress can actually codify what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" actually means. The Amendment Author in his support of Section 1 clearly stated that this Amendment was not intended to give Citizenship to everyone. Since the Amendment took effect, U.S. Court Stare Decisis has established an "owe allegiance too" test for bestowing...

Let's look at Farm Workers who top the Pew Center list of occupations most affected by Illegal Immigration. There are a quarter million people who do this back breaking job with as much as 25% of the workforce made up of Illegal Immigrants and 25.9% unemployment. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Farm Workers earn a median wage of $8.64 per hour. Meanwhile, Construction Laborers who work equally hard with comparable skills earn median wages between $11.23 and $13.19 per hour. The lowest skilled Loggers earn a median wage of $14.66 per hour. Even Parking Lot Attendants have higher median wages than do Farm Laborers at $9.04 per hour.

This is a great example of the devastation Illegal Immigration has wrought on wages...

Per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment Report of Feb. 5, 2010:

Construction and extraction occupations = 24.6% Unemployment
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations = 25.9% Unemployment
Production occupations = 15.4% Unemployment
Transportation, material moving occupations = 15.0% Unemployment
Service occupations = 11.4% Unemployment

Total US Unemployed Citizens and Legal Residents = 14,873,000
This figure excludes 5,965,000 Persons who want a job but are not included for various reasons.
Total Number of Americans Looking for Work = 20,838,000

But before seasonal adjustment Americans looking for work = 22,256,000

The most recent Pew Center estimates of Working Illegal...

A CNN Poll released 10/22/09 says that 73% of Americans want to see the number of Illegal Immigrants in the USA reduced. With 60% wanting the number of Illegal Immigrants reduced either significantly or completely to zero.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/22/cnn-poll-3- out-of-4-want-illegal-immigration-decreased/?fbid=sOOo7LPiv 1q

When it comes to global immigration the supply of workers far out-strips the supply of jobs. Unfettered immigration with such an imbalance is a recipe for disaster. History proves this out. And Conservatism is not a pact with disaster.

By the 1840’s technological advances in transportation presented the United States for the first time with the problem of people immigrating faster than jobs could be created. The first time this happened was with the German and Irish migration prior to the Civil War. The resulting wave of Immigrants provided so much unskilled labor to our economy that the history books clearly paint this time as an era of high unemployment resulting in civil strife.

After the Civil War the next great wave...