Also from Michelle Malkin, this is possibly her top issue. It's nothing earth shattering, but here's a line she quotes that really sums up why I care so much about this issue (and why elites who don't just don't understand):
Moreover, people who live with the influx of poorly-educated, low-skilled illegal immigrants see the strains that this demographic wave puts on their communities.
Bingo. If I lived in a nicer (meaning, of course, white) neighborhood, I would never see the terrible effects of open borders. Since I live in what is practically Little Tijuana, though, I know EXACTLY their effect on the country.
That's something the elites (like the president, John McCain, and any other conservative who is for open borders, along with just about every liberal) just don't get. They live in great neigborhoods and their only interaction with the wave of illegals is when they are mowing their lawns or watching their kids. To them, illegals are just a bunch of hard-working folks who help our country.
They don't see the Balkanization of neighborhoods where half the signs are in Spanish. They don't see the ranchers who live on the border who have to worry for their safety and continually fix or replace their property (including livestock that gets killed). They don't see communities in border states that need to close hospitals because they can no longer afford to give illegals free care. They don't see the gigantic strain that waves of illegals puts on school in those same communities. They also don't see the crime associated with a huge underclass of uneducated, poor, non-English-speaking people.
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