Does the GOP favor illegals because corporations don't want to pay living wages to American workers?

It isn't accurate to say the GOP favors illegals but you are correct, plenty of business people do. It brings up a far more important point. The issue is less about illegal immigrants than the subversion of the rule of law. We are supposed to be a system of laws. Laws written and passed by duly elected representatives of the people. It can, therefore be accurately stated, that those laws represent the will of the people.

So, if government officials decide to selectively enforce those laws, they are undermining the will of the people. This means it is not really the people who have the power but officials who can ignore the wishes of the people and all the effort put forth to write and pass laws. It totally undermines the system that is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people.

Selective enforcement gives government officials and bureaucrats more power than the legislature, more power than the judiciary and more power than the people themselves. They do not care a whit what laws you pass, they simply will not enforce them. That is tyranny, my friend.

So they selectively enforce immigration laws. As you have pointed out, they selectively enforce labor laws and minimum wage laws. They selectively enforce tax laws. If certain people don't pay their taxes little if anything seems to happen. Try that yourself and see how selective the enforcement is.

Regardless of the motivation, failure to enforce laws or selectively enforcing them is tyranny. It is the deconstruction of the concept of equal justice. It is the antithesis of justice.

If immigration laws are bad, then make the case and repeal them. If they are too draconian, make the case and modify them. But under no circumstances should any government official ever be permitted to ignore them. They are duty bound to enforce them. To allow them to pick and choose which they will or will not enforce gives them way too much power.

The GOP leadership is not God, nor is the Democrat leadership. Any political party that supports or suborns illegal activity is a criminal enterprise. They should be prosecuted under RICO statutes.

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Right now it is the Democrats that want the cheap and healthy labor pool (to union bust and lower wages as you said), as well as getting a huge bloc of new, faithful voters. That is why the Democrats passed Obamacare. To give the 12 million (someday) newly minted Mexican-Americans free health care the day they are given amnesty and citizenship as a reward for violating our borders and breaking our laws. Then 10 or 20 million more Mexicans will cross the border to get our safety, security, and benefits for free while waiting around to get the same bonus their friends and relatives got. All we need to do now is kill more stupid Americans in Iraq to clear up space and jobs for the border hoppers; and watch while California goes so deep in the red it will fall off into the ocean.

You got the fact Jack.

Both sides love the status quo for different reasons - the right for those you mention and the left becuase they need votes bad - they have aborted 30 million of their voting block over the past 30 years.

The Libertarian Party probably is not much help to you either. The road to the other minor parties leads to insanity.

If this issue is very important to you, then you have a problem.

Arizona obviously disagrees with the Federal government. On the Federal level most GOP candidates want the votes of illegal immigrants after they get amnesty just as badly as the Democrats do. They will never admit it, but they do.

A republican wrote the amendment to create the fence

U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, a Republican from California

Bush signed it on October 26, 2006.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) opposed the fence in 2007

So from what i can see is that A republican created the idea and a republican signe dit but Hoyer opposed it

Who cares what the GOP or Dumocrats think. Those aiding and abetting should be deported to Northern Alaska.

The entire basis of your argument collapses when you understand that only 2.5% of illegals are hired by corporations.

Edit: My mistake. It's in the CBS report that went along with that poll.

I think so.