US immigration
“How can you dislike someone who takes a big risk to better his family’s life, works incredibly hard at a productive job, and wants to live in your country? Are we really better off with fewer people of that character?”
Scott Adams on illegal immigrants in America. The post on The Dilbert Blog is here.
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
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February 4th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Not if they come to our country legally. No one has the right to break our laws in the name of bettering themselves. By breaking the law, they are now criminals. We do not want anymore criminals, we have quite enough, thank you.
As far as working hard, maybe you should check our prison population and check our welfare rolls before you make your lame comment.
It is our country and we should have the right to choose who enters our country. Did you know that the money they earn is sent back to Mexico and they do not pay taxes on these earnings? Give me and the rest of America a break with your bleeding heart rhetoric. Why don’t you and your countrymen offer them a new home if you are so concerned?
February 5th, 2007 at 1:08 am
I agree with you 100%. To be honest (and at the risk of being called a “bleeding heart”), I don’t have a “real” position on this whole immigration problem, it really seems complex. But, I kind of look at it this way.
If someone lived in a town, and in that town there was a bank, and it was “technically” illegal to take money from the bank…..stay with me…..But, every night the bank manager left the bank doors open, and didn’t lock the vault. Now, even though it is illegal to take money from the bank, what if several poor families from the neighborhood were told they could just go into the bank, and get the money they need, and that even though it was “technically” illegal, everyone in the town and the bank would turn a blind-eye? It kinda becomes a grey area, between legal and not legal, don’t you think?
This is basically, how I see the situation with America and Mexico. We can “say” it is illegal to come here. But, we are leaving the door open, providing jobs, giving health care, giving education…and on and on. So, “technically”, it seems it is more legal than illegal. I’m not saying I agree, I don’t think it is right what is happening in this country with illegal immigration. But, as long as the government treats illegal immigrants better than many of their own citizens, I don’t see much changing. The Mexican people would have to be crazy not to take their chances and try to come to this country, it must be like hitting the lottery to them.
Just my opinion.
February 5th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Madmouser, you need to read things more carefully. Your whole tirade seems to attribute the above quote to me which, if you followed the link, you would realise was not the case. It was written by Scott Adams and I expressed no opinion either way about it.
Thanks for your replies, both of you.
February 10th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
We seriously need to focus on helping the hispanics we already have before we import millions more. They NEED help. But money to help the less fortunate is finite (progressive policies do not change that fundamental finiteness). We can choose to have a big hispanic population that we have at least half a chance in hell of uplifting, or a gigantic hispanic population with far less of a chance of ever getting out of the underclass:
“Longest, Largest” study of the children of immigrants yet conducted, by Alejandro Portes of Princeton and Ruben Rumbaut of UC Irvine:
http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1529
excerpts:
“Differences in arrest and incarceration rates are also noteworthy, particularly among second-generation, U.S.-born, males. While only 10 percent of second-generation immigrant males in the survey had been incarcerated, that figure jumped to 20 percent among West Indian and Mexican American youths.”
“The researchers found that children of Laotian and Cambodian Americans as well as Haitian Americans had the lowest median annual household income at just over $25,000. They were followed closely by Mexican American families, which had a median annual household income of about $30,000. On the other end of the spectrum, children of upper-middle-class Cuban exiles in Southern Florida reported a household income of more than $70,000, and Filipino Americans in Southern California had more than $64,000, followed by Chinese immigrants.”
Also, see this:
“Coming US Challenge: A Less Literate Workforce”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0206/p02s01-legn.htm
November 13th, 2008 at 2:47 am
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