Something that gets totally missed about poor, typically ignorant, Hispanic immigrants...
While it was true that back in the 19th Century some like Andrew Carnegie could arrive here poor, even uneducated, and aspire to make good, we are now what economists call an "advanced service economy."
What this means is that one REALLY needs education and communication skills to get ahead in TODAY'S America. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs might have dropped out of college, but that is an academic point-- neither was ignorant or culturally disparate.
But the myriad, prolific Hispanic poor who predominate among ILLEGAL aliens almost NEVER fit this matrix. Naturalizing poor Hispanics simply accelerates our devolution into becoming a Third World Country.
A friend of mine, Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak, tweeted on Tuesday night that if immigration reform goes through Congress this year "it will almost solely be due to" Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
To which I replied: "you break it, you buy it."
There are two different conservative narratives about Rubio's dalliance with John McAmnesty and the other bi-partisan group of senators on board with his plan. The first is the glowing words coming from Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and now Rush Limbaugh. Just one day after Limbaugh made national news by trashing Rubio's plan, he praised the senator effusively...
The jobs that allow you to have rising expectations call for education and communications skills...the BLS says so. It is in some of the more technical jobs that we have demand/openings.
The radical Left keep putting forward Marxist rabblerousers and criminal gang members in front of our faces to drive a wedge between conservatives and the larger body of Latinos, who share our traditional values and who are just as appalled at the toxic cultural influence on their children.