David recalled reading books about Kennedy family and said: "Was it in Cape Cod that he was drunk and drove his female companion under the bridge. He walked away and delayed reporting to police until it was too late?" Bob said: "Yes, that was it. That was Teddy. What would he care about workers like me"?

After that day, David no longer wanted to ask Bob about the war in Vietnam. But he found controversial topics were just cropping up increasingly in American minds besides the war. This other topic was "immigration". Being an immigrant himself, he had run into his share of harsh and illogical treatments which made him wonder what kind of difficulties the "illegal" immigrants must have been subjugated to.

There were many Mexican descendents in the Burrito House head quarter, especially in the call center. In fact, the call center manager Jossue was a Mexican descendent too. One day, it seemed Jossue was the only call center employee who came to work and rest of the call center had a lot of vacant seats. Later David found that was the day that immigrants organizations in the United States wanted to make as "a day without immigrants" to protest several states' pending passage of laws branding "undocumented" immigrants as "criminal". Before, those illegal immigrants were just "illegal" with the most severe punishment as "deportation", but when those state laws passed, they would be persecuted as "criminals".

David got into the car with his software installation partner and started talking with this politically cynical guy about immigrants and immigration issues. Passing several streets downtown, Bob pointed out those were the streets where Mexican immigrants, many of them illegal, would just simply standing in pedestrian walks, waiting to be hired to do yard works, construction, moving or paint jobs for local residents, with cash in most cases. David remembered seeing similar streets in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona also when he visited those cities on vacations. In many cases, these people reminded David about peasants turned laborers (农民工) flooding into Chinese big cities. A lot of them were the ones doing the crappiest and lowest paying jobs yet being looked down at most often.

Bob asked David about a Canadian's opinion on illegal immigrants. David replied: "well, I am probably not the right person to comment on this topic, because I am an immigrant too". "Well, we don't look at Canadians as too much different from Americans. My generation used to look at Canada as part of America that young people would not be drafted during the Vietnam War". David laughed and said: "Precisely, that is how I think America should solve its immigration problems with Mexicans. If America could simply withdraw troops from Iraq and use those soldiers to participate in the process of annexing Canada and Mexico, then there would be no immigration problems. I don't understand why spending so much money to help those troops racking up frequent flyer miles when you could have spent much less to help your neighbors improve their economy or accept your forms of government or ideas of democracy.

Where are the political minds like George Marshall of the Marshall Plan when you needed them?" Bob also laughed and said: "Well, there you go. I should probably ask a real Canada born Canadian, who wouldn't suggest United States simply invading his country". "That's true, although I am not sure how many Canadians would care about the immigration problems between US and Mexico". David then lowered his voice and said: "I am actually a traitor of not only Canada. I was a traitor of China too". Bob added: "You have been away from US for five years, and you qualify as a traitor of the United States too". David went along and said: "and a traitor of US", thinking: "Well, betraying three countries is not as bad as betraying three families, at least a traitor of three countries won't be called as 三姓家奴 in Chinese".

David put on his serious discussion face and said: "But seriously, I do not know why US has let the Mexican economy to be as bad as it had been for so long, for a neighboring country so close to home. It is common sense that hot air and cold air, or hot water and cold water when put in the same container would eventually mix together and become the same temperature, a kind of basic idea of Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Law also said pretty much anything over a long run would decay and die and simply go from bad to worse. I guess that is not the kind of truth that politicians can put on their campaign speeches and go around telling their constituents: 'Listen, the standard of living for your next generation is simply going to be worse than that of yours, because of this Second Law of Thermodynamics'. Nor can they tell their constituents: 'This great fence we are building down south along the US-Mexican border would never work, because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics'".

Bob said: "You know what the secret is? The rich and powerful, along with Corporate America actually want to keep Mexicans poor, so they can get those cheap labors close by. The parties also wanted to keep it that way so they can accuse the other party of not dealing with the immigration problems when elections come around".

David said: "I don't know whether this problem is purely political, caused by greed or conspiracy or what have you. I truly feel like it seemed there are certain scientific aspects in it. It's almost like a problem rooted in the human nature or the natural course of a country's development. This kind of things would happen when a country develop into a certain stage. It's like overweight problem is highly correlated with the so called immigration 'problem'.

Are they really 'problems'? People who do not have enough food to eat would certainly consider the overweight problem as a sort of good problem to have. There was a general in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia once said in the heat of the battle, 'tomato soups are very good, I wish I had some'. One would wonder what he thought of overweight problems.

As to immigration problems, I can tell you my views about that problem. I grew up in a city which Chinese people labeled as the third world cities in China. Because China is this third world country in the world, so my friends in my hometown used to joke about our city as the "9th world" on this planet. I never had as much as I liked to eat or the overweight problem until I came to US and I have never seen an immigrant moved to my hometown before I left. What would the social status of Mexicans be in my home city? I would never find out, I have never seen any Mexican immigrants moved to my hometown before I left. For folks in China in the 1980's, immigrating to Russia was as good a prospect as immigrating to many other countries and they used to think People in North Korea lived at a higher standard of living too. When I went to university in the 1980's, I was like immigrated to another city that could be ranked as 7th world on this planet. In the late 80's, that was the places where I first saw a Mexican outside of TV. Granted that was a Mexican doctor, but the high social status of a Mexican in the 7th world surprised me quite a lot, because I saw several good looking female Chinese gold diggers working at him on shifts. Today, Mexican's in China no longer have as much luck or as much love as they used to do, after China joined WTO. Probably neither do Russians and Koreans in general, but that is because China is a country starting to have overweight problems too. It seems when a person gets old, his or her metabolism naturally slows down. Afterwards, that individual is very much prone to overweight problems. When a country is highly developed, it would naturally attract immigrants, and that is also about the time when the country start seeing more and more overweight kids in the streets and those kids do not appreciate immigrants that they are able to see in the streets, no matter how much work those immigrants have done for them.

The national spirit of a rich nation is impossible to keep even a remote resemblance of the drive and motivation of a poor country, in the sense of innovation, hard work or common sense. How many family members from a still-in-power royal family are willing to clean the toilet, pick up the garbage, especially if you ask them to vote for it? How many rich kids are willing to refrain from griping about those 'Mexican invaders', if you ask them to vote for the abstinence". Rich or poor, it's usually difficult for people to maintain a thankful heart and appreciate what a nice problem they had when they have one.

Bob tried to ask David a difficult question: "Would you be willing to clean the toilet, if you don't have too"?

David thought for a long while and laughed at the surprising answer that he had found which astonished even himself. "No, I won't. Now that you've mentioned, I have just found something interesting. When searching deep through my soul, I have just found that illegal immigrants love this country much more than legal immigrants. Legal immigrants might have higher skills, more certificates, diplomas and other pieces of paper comparing to illegal immigrants, but probably a larger portion of legal immigrants have lower characters than illegal immigrants. I would say majority of the "legal" and "illegal" immigrants come to United States for the sake of the strong US economy and a little bit higher wages, but still wages of a working class, not much else. They don't really come for the "ideas or isms", "freedom or liberty", "democracy or super star described American dreams". In this context, illegal immigrants came to this country with more determination and resolve than the legal ones. Illegal immigrants are much closer to the heroic founding fathers of this nation than legal ones. When facing the choices between a Revolution and paying the taxes, illegal immigrants would more likely become the Continental Armies and legal immigrants would more likely become the Tories. Illegal immigrants risked their lives of jail time coming to this country, comparing to legal immigrants only meekly pay their dues and file their paper work to get in. Clearly, illegal immigrants were much more attracted by the American ideals and dreams while legal immigrants were just following another pay check or for whatever personal reasons happened to be there. God forbid if US no longer is as strong an immigrant magnet as it is today, I figure legal immigrants are the first ones moving out of this country than the illegal ones.