Ron,

         I don't know how much time you have, but I'll start with this:

         First, we need to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration. People coming into the country on visas to do specific things in the light of day are not the ones causing blue collar workers so much trouble.

         Second, as far as illegal workers are concerned, people who say we should be going after the employers are 100% right. I think the board of directors of Tyson Foods ought to be in jail. Lou Dobbs would agree with that, I'm not sure Tom Tancredo would. So there are differences here.

         When I lived in California, the illegal aliens moved in with huge families--6 to 12 children per family in some cases. The schools were quickly overwhelmed, and the people who suffered were the kids who were the legally, and could not get an education.
         Now, they've become so desperate they're laying teachers off in an effort to meet expeneses, and this is a perfect example of what overpopulation does.

          Emergency rooms at hospitals have had to shut down. Hospitals have had to shut down, because they simply could not keep up with the huge demands brought about by illegals flooding into their facilities.

          Wages have been driven into the cellar. Illegal aliens have flooded into construction sites and have taken jobs at wages that are below what American workers can make on unemployment benefits. That has driven the unemployment programs into financial ruin.

         The wages for construction workers continually going down, has driven the value of houses down, which has exacerbated falling housing prices and the mortgage crisis.

         Illegal aliens bought houses. They would not have qualified for loans under normal circumstances, and should not have been taking out mortagages, but they were. Once in default, all they have to do is to go back to Mexico and there's nothing the lending institutions can do to recover what they consider to be "their money." This makes the entire situation much worse, and the empty houses are dragging down the value of the houses around them. To complicat the situation, knowing no one can come after them, they often "strip" the house of anything of value before they head south. This is why the central valley of California is considered to be the "foreclosure capital of America."

            Now I'm back in Oregon. Retired people are flocking here each day to get away from the illegal aliens in California. The problems that have been generated here as a result of the runaway immigration in California is a whole 'nother chapter. I'll fo on with that in book II. But it all stems from illegal immigration and the American government's failure to confront it.