I’ve been saying this for years. All this talk about “illegal” is just a way for people to try to avoid the talk of bigotry or racism. Now, that is NOT what most opponents of concentrated immigration from Latin America are about but they say it’s “illegal immigration” they are bothered by to thwart leftist or Open Borders-types in their ad hominem attacks.
Stop worrying. Embrace the fact that if these immigrants were from China, we’d have 50-90 percent less problem (less crime, less drunken driving, sex assaults, respect for SOME basic laws, gang and drug criminal activity.) After all, what percentage of our population in prisons is Asian? Very small. It’s a CULTURAL problem and we don’t want to import more people who are likely to bring more of these problems with them.
If we had 10 million German and Scandinavians in this country, legally or illegally, do you think there’d be this problem?
We are bringing in the peasants and hillbilly-type immigrants and some are succeeding but many are helping to significantly alter the course of our nation’s future.
Russian immmigrants have been a big crime problem in New York, and Chinese and Vietnamese gangs on the West Coast are nothing to laugh at. Because there are still relatively small numbers of people from these countries (remember the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?), naturally they are not going to equal the crime statistics of people from Latin America.
I am very much in favor of temporary immigration programs, but they have to permit realistic numbers in the first place, provide real supervision and enforcement of the length of stay, prevent people from going on welfare, and also get the enforcement cooperation of the home countries. One thing that is never addressed is the fact that we could use some economic leverage to get Mexico to enforce its borders more rigorously. Our immigration policy acts as if the immigrants pop out of nowhere.