Kenyth, the immigration issue makes for strange political bedfellows.

On one side of the argument, you have the populist liberals and the cultural conservatives who are opposed to our current immigration policy due to wage suppression, soaring social service costs, rising poverty, and cultural fragmentation. As a working-class girl who has seen immigration in the meatpacking industry turn her hometown into a miniature Detroit economically, I definitely fall into this category.

On the other side of the argument are the limousine liberals and the Chamber of Commerce conservatives, who embrace lawless immigration policy for different reasons, but are still on the same side of the argument. The limousine liberals have fantasies of a multi-cultural utopia while the Chamber of Commerce conservatives want to use immigration policy to micromanage wage levels. Both groups perpetuate the "jobs Americans won't do" mythology as a strategy for swinging public opinion their way. By and large, it seems to work.

And given our President's embrace of "amnesty" for illegal aliens, it's pretty clear that he knows which political lobby butters his bread.