An Unheard Majority
(continued)
forced to pay attention to the issue of illegal immigration. In many of the 2006 House and Senate races where Republican candidates took hard stances for border security and employer sanction enforcement, Democrats met them with the same message. 2 With both Democrats and Republicans both boasting that they were against illegal immigration it is clear that politicians are fully aware that both Democratic and Republican voters are united against illegal immigration; however, this doesn't mean at all the government officials actually want to do anything about illegal immigration. House Republicans have consistently rejected any form of guest worker programs, stating that it would simply be amnesty for criminals.3 Nothing has seemingly slowed the influx of illegal immigrants from coming into America. Everything from increasing the levels of border patrol agents, to deploying the National Guard to watch the border, to paying for costly high-tech devices like unmanned aircraft, and physical barriers have done nothing to stop illegal immigrants from coming into America.4 Ultimately the government spends millions of dollars to create the illusion that they are working hard to stop illegal immigrants, rather than simply enforcing employers to not knowingly hire illegal aliens with fake identities. Issues like this have brought out a lot of anger by many Americans, who in turn have formed groups like the Minutemen to try to take the law into their own hands with consideration that the government isn't doing their job. Americans growingly are bringing their angers against illegal aliens themselves rather than the source of them wanting to come to America in the first place. It is employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens who are first to blame for the excess of illegal aliens in America; however, one would wonder why the government wouldn’t want to enforce the laws it already has these laws on the books.