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Originally posted by Spanky
You have friends that live on the border? What do they do for a living?
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Split between managing their investments, farming, and writing. Strange question.
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I don't understand this fear of illegal immigration. Is this really a problem that should be at the top of our agenda? Almost everyone I know benefits almost daily from illegal immigration (cheaper food prices etc). And why are the illegal immigrants so harmful or dangerous? What is the crisis? All prior "dangerous immigrations" turned out to be beneficial.
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Partially, it's the feeling that we have laws and philosophies governing immigration, but there's been a unilateral de facto decision to ignore those laws, and no one's really sure why. We see that we can't get on a plane with a fingernail clipper, and I have to wait in line at the entry ports far longer than in the past, and yet the powers-that-be have turned a blind eye to border-running. If we are going to let it happen, then we should change the laws to reflect that. Unfortunately for that point of view, the rationale for making that change isn't going to survive the debate. As to, where's the harm, the harm comes from lots and lots more pressure on the entry job market ("jobs Americans won't do" - crap - more like "jobs Americans won't do for the wages that illegal immigrants will take"), huge econ pressures on the people in the states that end up taking them in, and a general pervading disrespect for the law - hell, Bush and Co ignore immigration law, so what's the big deal if I do a few lines? Vic Hansen has a good article this week, whose main point is, essentially, do your own damn dishes.
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It just seems to me that the people that are so concerned about illegal immigration just don't like having Mexicans around.
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Yeah, that's it, I'm just a racist cracker. Ask me what languages I spoke as I grew up.
