Immigration is not as big an issue for voters as some people thought

Illegal Aliens:

Missing from the media and candidates poly-talk are the numerous legal avenues to enter the United States as a true immigrant or temporary worker.
Not everything is as complicated as a green card (permanent residence), why are programs like H2A (unskilled agriculture) or H2B (general labor) never discuss?
The fact is, that it is not hard for a foreign worker to legally get a job in this country. It's a misconception (on both sides of the border) that swimming the Rio Grand is the only way to get a job in the USA.

I have seen statistics (read Mark Twain) that every illegal laborer cost the tax payer around $32,000 per year. That may be way off, it may be close, but benefits are afforded illegal aliens and their dependents, and it is undoubtedly paid by the tax payer. “the silent subsidy” (wasn't it LBJ that coined “silent majority”?).

Immigrant is another misconception. It's a blanket term used to describe the illegal workers and residents alike. The truth is that only about one half of illegal border hoppers plan to stay in America. That's right, 10 or more million illegal Mexican workers plan to remain Mexican citizens. They save every dime they can, send their wages home, and plan to go to the country they call home when their nest egg is sufficient. (Did it every cross anybodies mind why so few immigrants bother to learn English? They won't be using it for long.)

This in capitalism is referred to as arbitrage. In simpler terms it is transferring the wealth from one economy (market) to another.

I believe it's time the true issues get brought to the front. Poor information has been abundant for as long as the, illegal alien, migrant worker, immigrant, (what ever is PC?) has been a topic.

These are:
· Why are workers illegally crossing the border when there are so many ways to legally enter the USA?
· How much is ignoring US law costing the tax payer?
· How much wealth is being removed from the US economy?

It would be immeasurably easier to talk of amnesty if the people who want to become US Citizens were counted separate from those that want to make a buck and go home.

Is everybody is afraid to admit that a great portion of illegal immigrants are willfully breaking the law today, and plan to continue breaking the law until they're stopped? Who dare point a finger at those who break the law and call them criminal?

Are we, as a country, laying the foundation for law being enforced based on how popular it is with those affected?