The current illegal immigration into the United States is a disaster. Back in 1986 the US gave amnesty for illegal aliens, and made them citizens. At the time the government said that would be the last amnesty. Now the Congress apparently wants to do it again. A person or nation gets more of the behavior they reward, so there is every reason to believe that this action will cause more people to enter the country illegally. The government says they will now enforce the law; but, for some reason they have not enforced the current law so there is little reason to believe them. The Mexicans are a particular problem. There is an underclass of 75 million in Mexico. Mexico is adjacent to the US so it is relatively easy for them enter the US. There are currently 12 to 20 million Mexicans illegally in the US. At present about 26% of babies born in the US are born to illegal alien Mothers, mostly Mexicans. In Dallas over half of the babies born in Parkland Hospital have illegal alien Mothers, and in John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth about 75% have illegal alien Mothers. These are called "anchor babies" since under US tradition, the babies are US citizens. Becoming a US citizen is a real boon; each individual's share of the US infrastructure is about $500,000. The laws currently being considered will result in most of the underclass in Mexico immigrating to the US because of family re-unification features. Since these people are poorly educated, this will put enormous strain on the US welfare system. It is pretty clear that Mexican families cost the US taxpayers money. There seems to be a coalition of conservative business owners who want cheap, and some say almost slave, laborers and liberals who believe that every person in the world has a Constitutional right to come to the US. (On C-Span I once heard a Mexican American Congressman say the latter, a view shared by many Hispanics.) A lot of people think that Mexicans have a right to come to Texas since Texas was once part of Mexico. But there were only about 3000 Hispanics in Texas in 1836, and they were not indigenous to Mexico, but had been born as Spaniards. If the indigenous people of Mexico had come to Texas in earlier times, the Commanches would have killed them. When I was born less than 2% of the people in Texas were Mexicans. Now about 35% are Mexican, and most of them have come since 1986. These immigrants are putting serious strains on the educatioal system of Texas, and on the infrastructure in general. We used to have plenty of electric power, for example, but now the system is about to be overloaded. At the same time, political interference is preventing the construction of new power plants. Welcoming in the underclass of Mexico will overwhelm us.

Prior to 1965 the US allowed legal immigrants who were educated, and could contribute to the US economy. Most of them were from Europe. In 1965 Senator Kennedy changed all of that with a law that give preference to people from third world countries. This has resulted in a few million Muslims coming to the US.

Immigration is a serious issue. It appears that we are unwilling to seal the border, so the situation may be hopeless. Here are some steps we should take, but are not like to take.

We should get rid of the "anchor baby" tradition. There is no Constitutional basis for it, and other countries do not do it.

We should ban the immigration of Muslims. Islam is a political concept masquerading as a religion, and is completely incompatible with the US Constitution.

We should announce that current illegal aliens will not become citizens unless they go home and enter through the proper process.

We should establish a quest worker program and require that all people currently in the US illegally sign up within some short time period. After that, all illegal aliens found in the country without a permit should be ejected from the country without delay.

We should require local governments to enforce the immigration laws. Local politicians who refuse should be prosecuted.

Companies or individuals who employ aliens without a guest worker permit should be severly prosecuted.

Welfare payments should not be paid to Illegal aliens or to guest workers. Guest worker families should not receive free schooling.

Candidates for citizenship in the US should be educated, and able to contribute to the economy of the US.

That is some of the things we should do. The United States simply cannot absorb all of underclass from third world countries. Consider Mexico for example. Mexico has as much as the United States in terms of natural attributes. Mexico is a failed country because of the people who live there, not because of anything the US has done. We have no obligation to take care of them.