[john70t]

I've heard the second largest US illegal immigrant population is the Irish. My reddish-bearded face says they should go too.

True enough the southwest was only relatively recently (cough) "annexed", that US big buisness' and even the IRS are conspirators in the process of destroying the middle class, and that the legalization process is very flawed for good hard-working guest workers. But now it's broken.
In a modern "post-industrial" society with dwindling natural resources, the immigrants the US should be attracting are highly skilled technitians with low reproduction rates.

The lake that was Mexico City has dried up, and there is only going to take a few years of massive drought(such as in the 1930's) for the problem to get out of hand very, very quickly.
Even the Colorado river is now diverted to maximun capacity.
Large swings in population migration combined with ecological disasters are the key ingredients of social destabilization. This has been repeated throughout history.

I'll predict in the next 50 years, tops, there will be a big push to start draining the Great Lakes. Since Canada has a lot of oil and resources and is considering building a pipeling to the west to supply China, they might not remain the complacent northern neighbor.

I wish I had the free health care of the "guests". Bye-bye Medicaid and S.S. Before I was 16, I worked in distributing warehouse, bagged groceries, delivered papers, and flipped burgers. Those jobs are gone.

Here in Michigan the only "natives" are the Chippewa and the Huron- not Aztecas(patial decendents of wayward Apaches I've heard)- and the tribes are still getting screwed.
Melt, or get filtered.