I was reading the defense industry journal this morning and there are two articles, citing immigration laws as damaging defense industries and defense preparedness.
On the one hand, the neo-cons are getting us in ever more strategic deficit and on the other hand they are trashing the infrastructure to do anything about it.
We should have seen this coming (we did), when the director of the US global secret-police and spy agency was elected President in 1988. Since then, it has been continuous war, swollen prisons, and liquidated industrial capacity.
Any Democrat would have been better. Anybody would have been better.