Originally Posted by
Pancho Villa
Current immigration laws are holdovers from a frankly racist past (before you whine about the race card, the original immigration restrictions, passed specifically to keep the racial makeup of the United States relatively stable, so go bitch somewhere else) and Marxist economics (where more people = less pie to go around.) Add in a healthy bit of fear of other cultures that is a recurring cycle in America and you have the right mix for the immigration restrictions we've had going for a while now.