Another reason I’m disturbed at the flood of new people arriving in America is that I’d rather have a say and a choice who comes into my home.  In my house, it's virtually a given that uninvited guests will generate a certain amount of friction and stress, no matter how nice they may personally be. 

Now, my country is in many ways my home as much as my house is.  And I can’t for the life of me recall a majority of us who live in this national home of ours ever having asked for so many newcomers to be let in.

Another very large concern of mine is that I don’t want a flood of new and more economically desperate people competing for my job.

Today’s immigrants are most decidedly not all laborers and entry-level people.  (The Chinese, for example, have established a very compelling presence in the computer science industry, and the Indians are close behind them.) 

The simple crush of numbers all competing for the same jobs is disturbing in its own right.  But what makes matters worse is the tendency of the foreign-born to be more malleable and exploitable than their native-born counterparts.  Personally, I have found many non-native borns to be profoundly disinclined to ever tell the emperor he has no clothes.  No matter how crazy an instruction they receive, they trot dutifully off and act like they're trying to implement it. 

Now, for obvious reasons, employees like these have a way of endearing themselves to Dilbert-style clueless managers.  But it is ultimately neither right, nor good for the overall health of American business, for this state of affairs to continue.  Corporate lunacy needs to be challenged and resisted, not further encouraged.