Laura Ingraham links to this article by Mark Krikorian, “Not Just Mexicans: Guest-workers open doors to a whole new world.” (National Review Online. 11 April 2006.) It’s an insightful article. Here’s a quote from it:

[O]nce foreign workers no longer have to sneak in, and are instead shipped here by labor-recruitment companies, Mexico’s advantage disappears. Cheap airfares and easy communications guarantee that employers will start looking farther afield for workers even cheaper and more compliant that Mexicans.Mexico’s per capita income, in purchasing-power terms, is nearly $10,000 a year — putting it near the top of the developing world.

Egypt, on the other hand, is home to nearly 80 million people who make less than half the average Mexican. India and Indonesia together have 1.3 billion people with one-third the average Mexican’s income. And Pakistan and Bangladesh together have more than 300 million people with less than one-quarter the average Mexican’s income.

And how much of Iraq’s working-age population would leap at the chance to get out, regardless of the wages offered?

That’s a lot of “willing workers” who will work cheaper than Mexicans.

Yup. He’s right. It’s the dirty little secret that our politicians don’t want to share with our benevolent invaders (after all they are doing us a whole lot of favors by building our houses and highways, scrubbing our toilets and picking our vegetables): “[There are] a lot of ‘willing workers’ who will work cheaper than Mexicans.”

Or maybe it’s not a secret. Maybe those boneheads just haven’t thought that far ahead. After all, the problem Krikorian writes about won’t arise until well after the next election.