The one issue that matters to me so much but i really don't blog about is immigration. Anytime i sit to write about immigration, i end up scrapping it no matter how eloquent that blog or writing may be. It's a moral dilemma caused not by my being an immigrant, which i am, but by my having many illegal immigrants as friends, family friends, and even family. But today i'm going to thread that fine line and i hope i do a fair job.
When we debate about immigration, and do nothing about it, the one that suffers the most is America itself. We consider the humanness of actions taken against immigrants and many times the effects it has on individual firms with a really myopic view of things, and a very low understanding and cynical view of the world outside the US. What we never consider is the Nation of America.
I like to make my case with this analogy; you have a home that was bought and furnished with your sweat and your blood, then some guy comes in without your permission, makes a camp fire, erects a tent and starts living in there. While you're standing there wondering if it's really happening; he gives birth to a son, asks you to pay the medical bills. He then brings his brother who is a gangster who in turn invites the other gang members inside that same compound. The brother introduces some of your children into drugs and violence. One of the gang members kills some of your kids and jumps over the fence and never returns.
The problem with the above illustration is that it points out only the negative things that illegal immigrants do to this nation. I need to move on to some of the positive things. The guy has an advantage nevertheless, he cleans the part of the house where he lives and gets money from you so as to feed his family. Another good thing is that you have become so reliant on his labor due to it's cheap nature that you feel if he and his family lives your income can't support hiring somebody who'll work from his house. There are are your kids and other family members but you believe they have too many rights; you just can't satisfy them and their charges are too high.
Apart from my beautiful story--thank you---here some other really cool facts that support my anti-illegal alien mumbo. When this discussion comes up, liberals and conservatives who support illegal immigration like to claim the US is a country built on immigration. They don't mention that the nation was built by immigrant who made this place their home. In 2004 an estimated 16 billion dollars was sent to Mexico alone by immigrants from the country, and that was a 24% increase from 2003. Last year it was an amazing 20 billion dollars. Enough said.
Barbara Anderson from the American Chronicle made this statment
"Some states, such as California, have given in-state tuition opportunities to illegals. That means that if you are a citizen from Hawaii, for instance, and want to go to a California college or university, you pay several thousand dollars more than if you were a resident of California. However, if you are a non-citizen, you may be eligible for the lower in-state tuition. University of California undergraduates pay $6,802 while non-residents pay $24,106. Since college slots are limited, citizens may find themselves crowded out of a college education by non-citizens who do not have to pay the higher tuition."
That's apart from the fact that supporting illegals costs an average native born Mexifornian, sorry, Californian about $1,300 a year, $82.7 million a year on criminal-court interpreters for those 40 percent of its residents who speak a language other than English at home.
The cost in terms of lives .... mesmerizing. I would not suggest anything, but i hope before somebody opens his mouth to defend ILLEGAL immigration, they'll first open they're eyes and mind, think and gather facts then say whatever they want.
http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000911.html
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=4856
http://www.topix.com/city/los-angeles-ca/2007/07/glendale-hit-and-run-su...
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