Democrats tend to agree with conservative on immigration.

Quite facinating, don't you agree? It seems that Republicans and some Democrats think alike. Well, at least Republicans can rest peacefully when Democrats are trying to pass immigration bills.

Could the results of the mid-term elections be due to a less xenophobic outlook by American voters?

Miguel Perez of the Chicago Sun Times believes so. He brings out some interesting facts concerning the American Latino vote and the consequences it had concerning the immigration issue at hand during elections this year. Pretty interesting stuff, however I don't think that this was the only issue that the American voter (whether he or she was Black, White, Asian, Latino or what ever our census labels us as being) had in mind while voting. I like the way Miguel Perez frames this mid-term election with the Hispanic demographic in mind.

When thinking of immigrant workers in the United States of America, thoughts of blissful opportunities do not come to mind. This feeling might stem from me being born and raised in this great nation of ours with first hand experience in the lives of many immigrants. I was made aware to the intricacies of my nation’s prosperity at an early age, exposing me to the unfair labor practices brought forth by the liberties given to our free market. Here is an article in which the American and Mexican presidents are in effect negotiating the cost of labor in the United States. I see this benefiting, to a large extent, only American employers, excluding the majority of the American people. At the same time that I’m getting this feeling I am trying to grasp my way around the fact that the Mexican president, in a way, is selling out his people. I’m sure he is aware of the labor practices in use by the many industries taking part in guest worker programs, yet he is willingly bargaining away his people.

What are the effects of the so called raids done by immigration officials? Besides taking care of only part of the problem (since they do not stop the illegal hiring of non-citizens for their available employee positions by American employers), what are the consequences of these raids? Towns/cities like Stillmore, Georgia whose economy is based on illegal labor can give great forsight of what might happen.

Instead of learning about a different culture and its tongue a majority of Americans prefer to legislate laws against doing such a thing. However, other Americans are taking a stand against laws full of bigotry and discontent.

In the post-World War II world Europe has been enduring a constant change, making relationships work with a mass of people from a variety of different nations with vastly different cultures and languages. I'm wondering why we cannot do the same? We have so many less countries with even less spoken languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French and yes even English). We have not suffered the feuds of waring nation states, yet we have such lowly visions of our neighboring countries and their people.