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Immigration and class warfare. If the American people are against massive illegal immigration why are politicians, academics and the media for it? Answer? This is class warfare folks, and the elite classes in America are after privileges and power they can't have without the moral power they gain from paternalistically "caring for" an ever growing poverty class -- and the material privileges they can enjoy from the dirt cheap labor immigrants can provide scrubbing the floors, cleaning the pools, raising the kids, building the second homes, clearing the tables and cleaning the toilets, etc. Who else is going to do this work for dirt cheap wages? These are jobs "America's Won't Do" at illegal alien wages -- and they are also blackmarket jobs which avoid all the the burdens of income or social security taxes, OSHA regulations, ADA regulations, and government regulatory paperwork of every sort imaginable, etc.

And make no mistake. It's class warfare against their working class fellow citizens, especially working mothers competing directly with illegals and laboring at very low wage part time jobs -- jobs made necesssary by extremely high tax rates on their husbands. And why are these taxes necessary? In part these high taxes are necessary to pay for the highly paid professionals manning the hospitals, the schools, and the government agencies which are providing an ever growing set of expensive services to ... low wage immigrants. America's largest -- constantly reloading -- and ever growing poverty class.

UPDATE: John Leo: "60 percent of Americans believe current immigration levels are a “critical threat to the vital interests of the United States,” while only 14 percent of government officials, business leaders, and journalists think so." Read more. Quotable:

in 1970, foreign-born workers earned as much as American-born workers, but by 1998 male immigrants typically earned only 77 percent of what natives earned, making the gap between immigrants and native stock three times as large as it was in 1910 .. Writing when Bush first proposed his Mexican initiative in 2001, sociologist Christopher Jencks said the highest price might be paid by children of the new Latino immigrants, who will very likely earn little more than their parents, perhaps become disillusioned with their new homeland, and harden into a sizable underclass. He raises the specter of a possible Latin-American-style gap in the United States between the rich and the poor ...

UPDATE: See the 2Blowhards for information on what immigration is doing to Southern California.