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Will they go home, or will the engage in crime and other endeavors to survive?
Your version is closer to reality than is the pipe dream of the anti immigration bloc, who envision busloads filled with 11,000,000 people riding quietly southward back over the border.
With immigration comes problems. Ask the Europeans with their large contingency of Africans, Turks, Pakistanis, Moroccans and the like. Diversity can open up the culturally parochial to tolerance. It can also sew divisiveness as mores, customs and theocracies collide.
Japan has no immigration. It's a closed society. Who ever thought they'd see the day when as many Japanese play in the Major Leagues as do Americans in Tokyo. By all accounts, Japan is one of the most civil and safe places on Earth. Japan is like 21st century technology merged with 19th century Western ethics and morals. What would Osaka be like if suddenly a mix of 300,000, 20 year old migrant workers from all over Latin America were to descend upon her streets and neighborhoods? But on the other hand, because of Japan's aging population and the stimulative fiscal/monetary policies of the 1990's stock market crash, Japan is
twice the U.S. in terms of per capita government debt. And I believe (without looking it up) that by 2015 there will be only 3 Japanese workers to pay benefits for each pair of retirees. Japan and much of native Europe have
negative population growth. The U.S. is positive but most of that increase comes from minorities.
Today's bourgeois is the childless yuppie. Coupled with Roe V Wade and you've got a society that's not exactly pumping out kids. This trend is in place globally. Economists are predicting
Mexico will have a labor shortage because of the decline in population growth. So can Social Security survive without the constant reinforcement of immigrant workers? Well not if they're forced underground and in some cases avoiding social security taxes. Thank you Zoe Baird!
A comprehensive guest worker program along with some sort of amnesty is in order. In the meantime we get tough on the borders now! At least Mexicans are Roman Catholic baseball fans as opposed to a bunch of ragheads wearing veils. Things could be worse.