* I worked for an industrial manufacturing company where the labor on the factory floor was 99% Mexican except for the manufacturing and test engineers who were 95% South Asian or Arab. The Mexicans were long term US residents, who had been working a long time, and you would have thought had been amnestied by Reagan.
The company was bought out by a large corporation and in the routine process of transferring the payroll system, more than a third of the factory workers’ Social Security numbers popped up as duplicates or fakes. The new company had to fire them and do a mad scramble to find new qualified hires who could pass e-verify. Of course all the new hires were still Mexicans, they just had legal status. The surviving workers would put out the word on the openings to fellow Mexicans and the supervisors hired accordingly.
By the way, these were all specifically Mexicans, not Central Americans. A Guatemalan or Honduran had no more chance of getting in than a German or Nigerian. These folks had no interest in working next to anyone who rooted for the wrong national soccer team. At the last World Cup they all thought the referees cheated Mexico out of a win, and they were pretty glum about the White Germans shellacking the Brown Brazilians. Concentric loyalties.
* It’s untenable to predict that “most” Latino illegal aliens will end up apprehended by police for drunken or drugged driving, or for any other offense for that matter. Most of those committing such offenses will simply get away with it, and will not be “found out” and deported on this basis.
Without concerted enforcement action in workplaces (including day labor centers and farms) and neighborhoods, many millions of illegal aliens will stay here, largely under the radar, while their wives or girlfriends and children bilk taxpayers for medical care (much of it at emergency rooms where they legally cannot be turned away). food stamps, and public education costing $12,000 to $15.000 per year for every child (more if they require special education or remedial classes, as is disproportionately the case).
Trump needs to repeal obama’s executive orders immediately, most of all any amnesty or immigration non-enforcement orders.
Then e-verify, again relentlessly enforced to find and punish both illegal alien employees and especially those who hire them instead of hiring Americans.
We also need to require foreigners (and this would include my own dear wife) to wait say more than five years as legal permanent residents before becoming eligible for citizenship. Try twenty years, at least, if we are truly careful about expecting full assimilation to our language, culture, and mores before citizenship.
