2012 ELECTION

[Donovan]

Because as nonvoters who are foreigners, non-european and brown colored, they represent the perfect boogeymen for the current superconservative xenophobic caucasian party base of the GOP. Meanwhile corporations drive the funding engine and therefor have tremendous clout. It's our fault really for creating a situation where the best panderer wins. We deserve what we get.

That's a little hyperbolic, isn't it?

Talk to people of any political persuasion in southern California who have watched their hospitals close, schools become overcrowded, and state finances become a shambles because of unchecked immigration.

The enormous financial strain it causes is truly the untold story of illegal immigration. If you haven't lived in a border state, or done social service work in a border state you truly have no idea how endemic and problematic it is.

To me it's a financial issue, period.

I have lived in border states many times over the years, and the "immigration problem" is a paper tiger. Hospitals don't close because of immigrants, they close because they are bought up by private insurance and medical corporations for the purpose of shutting them down. It's happened half a dozen times in my area with nary a Messican in sight. Further, the undocumented worker supply in border and harvesting states is damn near slave labor and supports our entire farm system at this point. Those people rarely see the inside of a decent home, let alone an emergency room. I've done business with migrant workers, and the conditions in which they exist in our country is generally pretty appalling.

What I said about the illegal immigrants being nonvoters is true. They don't have a bloc, so their voices are irrelevant. They don't matter except as a smoke screen.

As for "purely financial issue" I agree. In any situation where money is bleeding out at an aortic pace and entire economies are being drained like Robert Pattinson's prom date, in order to find the source of the problem you have to follow the flow of money to where it winds up.

And that sure as hell isn't the migrant worker population. There are people and corporations getting rich. Those people and corporations have the ear of the elected government because they spend and vote and pay for those elected officials, who must pander to as many sides as possible to get elected. And that is the answer to the OP question.