Many excellent points, and he also debunks the argument that an open border at Mexico somehow stabilizes that unstable and corrupt nation.
Rethinking Illegal Immigration
Now that the bitter election season is over, both parties will have to return to the explosive issue of illegal immigration…
Take, for example, the shared self-interest argument – that the benefits to both the U.S. and Mexico of leaving our borders open trumps the need for enforcement of existing laws and outweighs the costs to U.S. taxpayers that result from massive influxes of poor illegal aliens.
Yet for the last several weeks, the Mexican city of Oaxaca has been in near-open revolt. What started out as calls to remove the state governor, Ulises Ruiz, on charges of fraud and corruption has spiraled into a popular uprising of the type that’s been seen in Venezuela and Bolivia.
Yet the state of Oaxaca is also one of the chief sources of illegal immigration to the United States. Hundreds of thousands of dissatisfied Oaxacans have fled to the U.S. and now send millions of dollars back southward. Why, then, is the city on the brink of chaos? Could it be that far from stabilizing Mexico, the continual flight of millions of Mexico’s disenchanted – one in 10 currently live in the U.S. – has only made things worse…
Uh, yeah, Obviously, read the whole thing.
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there OUGHT to be two things the dems and repubs can agree on. one is fighting terrorism and the other is securing the borders. if we do the latter, it will help out in dealing with the former.
Now that the Democrats have control of Congress (both sides) we can forget about border security. There may be a bill passed by this Congress concerning the subject but if that happens the bill will probably encourage more illegal immigration. The Democrats see the flow of illegals as expanding their voting base and the Republicans see the flow as a source of cheap labor for business (Bush’s position) so the bottom line is there will be no meaningful security on the border until we have 3 or 4 more 9/11 type incidents caused by open borders. We have reverted back to “gridlock” now in Washington so I don’t really expect anything out of Congress for the next several years, if anything does come out it will either be watered down to be meaningless, or it will have the reverse effect of the original label.
Sorry to be so negative but I have zero faith in the Party of N. Pelosi, Howard Dean, and Slick Willey (and not much more in the Party of Cunningham and Foley), duh.
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