Obama likes Mexican and Central American immigrants so much better than African immigrants that he supports practices and policies that allow Mexico and CAm with 2% of the worlds’ population to provide 66 % of America’s total immigrants legal and otherwise. While Africa with 10 % of the world’s population and far worse poverty and persecution (Darfur et al) gets a mere 2% of America’s total immigration slots. If such racial disparities existed in jobs, housing, schools etc anywhere in America they would be rightly denounced as the evidence of racist policies and successfully challenged in the courts and in the streets with demonstrations.

But when it comes to immigrants, Obama prefers them brown and wants to forget the blacks and all the rest. Why? — the answer is politics. He is willing to forget fairness, all men are created equal, the struggle against racial bias etc to indulge in favoritism toward Mexicans and Central Americans because he’s convinced that this subtle form of racism buys votes. Obviously, Obama believes that giving all potential immigrants a fair and equal chance at US citizenship regardless of their race or country of origin buys zero votes.

America’s immigration practices, especially the tolerance of illegal immigration, function to provide an ample supply of cheap, pliable labor for the self-indulgent rich and for certain business interests.. No candidate of either party, not even the fringe candidates, has proposed that we end our sorry practices that foster racial and ethnic immigration discrimination. Nonetheless, it is particularly disappointing that Obama, the first serious African American candidate for President should go further than any of the other first tier candidates in pandering to racist “Hispanic” groups like La Raza & MECLA.

Obama, who is half Kenyan, ignores the injustice of giving Mexicans huge advantages over Kenyans and other Africans and Asians who might want to immigrate here. This betrays where his deepest loyalties lie, not to justice and equality for other blacks, indeed for all, but to his own political ambitions. If his true commitment were to justice and equality he would want all potential immigrants to be able to compete fairly for limited US immigration slots on the basis of colorblind criteria such as marketable skills, education, knowledge of English, commitment to become Americans, and demonstrable hardships such as persecution in their homelands. On immigration Obama is the biggest sham of all.

Except for the 14th Amendment part I could support that plan.

You start by initiating huge fines for companies that employ illegals, make it so expensive they will not employ them.

You initiate a serious of checks to keep people from overstaying their visas.

You put more guards on the southern border, where most illegals cross. As much as I detest a fence, it is shown to work.

You give illegals the power to sue employers for not paying them min wage.

You have a good guest worker program. I am all for that, but, you make the employer responsible for their healthcare, as well as making sure they do not overstay their visas.

You deny services to illegals. No schooling, no healthcare, other then emergency. No welfare. No DLs. No status, period.

Repeal the 14th amendment. It has served its purpose. Children of illegal aliens can stay or go, but, the parents go bye bye. It is their responsibility for playing these games, not ours. People do not complain when mom or dad is put in the pokey for robbery.

Finally, you have a setup where certain illegals can appeal for residency, which, if allowed, would carry big fines and requirements of good behavior. There are going to be some exeptions.

What is your plan?