This is an exchange from a reader on immigration. I hope you find it interesting and informative.
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D wrote:
this pretty captures my sentiments except I'd totally close our southern border while we have a civil and humane debate about the fate of 12 million human beings who did break a law, but are not going home.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040401302.html
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From http://www.markswatson.com/immig.html
My Response:
Yes,Sending them all back would not be humane nor would it be logistically possible. But I think that every illegal immigrant that wants to remain should register, pay taxes and submit to an investigation (to check on criminal convictions, gang membership, drug organizations membership/affiliations, Hit and run incidents {which are epidemic with illegals1}). After this, they in most instances should be presented with the possibility of staying. Yet, having this many illegals is not fair to American workers who have had their jobs stolen from them. Every (not most) but every Job an illegal does takes away from an American and more often than not it is other ethnic groups that suffer for it and it shows in certain racial groups unemployment rates which are significantly higher than whites.
I often hear apologists for the CFR say., “well, there just doing jobs that Americans don't want to do.' That is only a half truth. Americans are not going to do many of these jobs for wages that are minimum wage or lower (as many are). They should not have to. But because there is a huge labor pool of people who will work for $10 a day, with no benefits and will not complain when they are worked 15 hours a day with no compensation, they are very a attractive labor force to unscrupulous business people. No, our politicians are reading prepared statements from think tanks that are funded by folks who want to drive every Americans wage down to the poverty level, strip them of health care benefits, rape their retirement funds, shift social security to defense contractors and use 'eminent domain' to build chemical plants where poor people live.
You state that 'they are not going home'.
That is what our Congress is to decide, not the illegal immigrants. Let is not forget that 'relocation camps' have already been built for this very purpose. They are sitting empty at this very moment waiting for occupants. The more boisterous and violent of this criminal element may talk a good game now but when they are forced to leave their jobs because their employers face tough restrictions, they will sing a very different tune, and do it very, very quietly. Those who say the are not going back should be the very first to go, as they are law breakers and are inciting others to break the law. We want law abiding citizens, not a group of criminals and violent thugs. Citizenship is granted by the state, it is not to be stolen by anyone.If they are hard working good citizens there should be a path to citizenship. Not a guarantee, but the real possibility of it. Ship the rest back, without ceremony, without bureaucratic impediments and most of all... without delay.
This has been an invasion planned by corporate America to drive down wages take away benefits and integrate our continent into one giant economic region very much like the EU. I have posted numerous links showing clearly from their own policy papers that this is their goal. They want to do it surreptitiously and not have the people vote on it, all the while touting our systems democratic foundations. This is one issue that has had such a wide effect on everyday Americans as well as our health care system, state and local budgets that this is the unfortunate (in their minds) backlash. Our leaders are not going to be honest about their plans. They were not honest about Iraq and our invasion of it. They simply cannot articulate what they really want to do, because if they did their would be a groundswell of opposition.
But if Americans are too stupid to see it, the people in Central and South America are fully aware and are putting in leaders that are putting the brakes on it and in some cases rolling it back. They do not want to be exploited by mega-corporations. Americans have yet to figure out that these entities are not the friends of America, its workers or its citizens.The bottom line is this is about economics. It is not Mexican against American. It is the mega global corporations that want to drive down wages, destroy benefits, take land from the poor and 'develop it' for THEIR interests, in the entire hemisphere. They are succeeding here in the US because people are still stuck in one of the two wings of the business (NAFTA) party, the Dems and the GOP, of which the Washington Post and NYT are chief spokesmen for their interests. They have both (GOP-Dems) worked tirelessly for these trade agreements because it is the very same corporations that fund their campaigns. They are just using the same old tricks to get people to go along with their agenda.
Using terms like 'humane', 'xenophobia', 'fortress America' 'racism', they use these propaganda terms and 'tried and true' models to accomplish their agenda.If you think I'm off... then consider this. The link you sent me was by William Samuelson. He writes for a magazine called Foreign Affairs. This is the official publication for the Council on Foreign Relations. (See this link http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20010101fareviewessay2001010112/robert-j-samuelson/the-spirit-of-capitalism.html ).The CFR was the main driver for NAFTA and is the man driver for CAFTA.http://www.cfr.org/region/262/nafta.htmlCodi is a member of the CFR as was Powell.You do not get to be Secretary of State, Defense, National Security Adviser or Treasury Secretary without bowing before Mammon and Mammon in America is spelled Council On Foreign Relations.For further reading.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/fauxhttp://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/This is a global problem and immigration is just one small piece of the puzzle. Be humane yes, America has always stood for that. But let us not be fools. A fool and his wealth are soon parted.. and probably should have never gotten together in the first place and America is turning into a nation of fools. But we can do better, I know we can.If we use our heads, we as a people may get a chance to eat and heat our homes in the 21st century. We are not using our heads so I see a whole lot of hungry and cold Americans in the years ahead.
Mark S. Watson
www.markswatson.com
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