Well, since the core of your argument seems to be that people who want to close the boarders and stop illegal immigration are closet racists, let’s start with that.
America is generally made better by immigration; however, when you have people coming into your country, wherever they are from, you expose your country to all sorts of detrimental security, health, and social problems. Therefore it is reasonable to allow for some level of screening before allowing people into any country anywhere.
Unfortunately there will always be some people who, for perfectly good reasons, attempt to gain access to the United States illegally. So long as there is a legal way for people to enter a country, there should be a reasonable amount of effort to stop people from entering it illegally.
I grew up in Southern California, during that time I got to know many immigrants from Mexico, and visited Mexico many times. One thing I can say about Mexican people is that there is nothing you can say about Mexican people. Like Americans, they are all individuals, some are criminals, some are not, some make great apple pickers, some make great lawyers, some will give you the shirt off your back, and some will stab you for your tennis shoes. You simple cannot classify the People of Mexico as all being poor, or stupid, or criminals, or as being hard working, honest, and family oriented. They are all different.
So having established that people from Mexico, and indeed all people everywhere, are individuals that must be judged on their own merits, and not on racial presumptions, then their eligibility to enter the US, or any other country should also be evaluated on an individual biases.
My solution to the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico, is three fold.
1. Secure the board. Take reasonable steps to prevent and deter people from crossing into the country illegally.
2. Help to encourage legal immigration. America has some of the least restrictive immigration policies in the world, but the system is too bureaucratic and needs to be streamlined.
3. Help develop the economy of Mexico. Mexico has everything it needs to be a superpower; its government is really the stumbling block. We should actively encourage Mexico to modernize its political system and aggressively cut out the corruption that plagues that system. (We should do this politically not militarily.)
This is a complex problem and I don’t have the time to go into the details right now, but that is the general overview of the mainstream conservative solution.
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Date: 2005-11-10 04:59 am (UTC)America is generally made better by immigration; however, when you have people coming into your country, wherever they are from, you expose your country to all sorts of detrimental security, health, and social problems. Therefore it is reasonable to allow for some level of screening before allowing people into any country anywhere.
Unfortunately there will always be some people who, for perfectly good reasons, attempt to gain access to the United States illegally. So long as there is a legal way for people to enter a country, there should be a reasonable amount of effort to stop people from entering it illegally.
I grew up in Southern California, during that time I got to know many immigrants from Mexico, and visited Mexico many times. One thing I can say about Mexican people is that there is nothing you can say about Mexican people. Like Americans, they are all individuals, some are criminals, some are not, some make great apple pickers, some make great lawyers, some will give you the shirt off your back, and some will stab you for your tennis shoes. You simple cannot classify the People of Mexico as all being poor, or stupid, or criminals, or as being hard working, honest, and family oriented. They are all different.
So having established that people from Mexico, and indeed all people everywhere, are individuals that must be judged on their own merits, and not on racial presumptions, then their eligibility to enter the US, or any other country should also be evaluated on an individual biases.
My solution to the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico, is three fold.
1. Secure the board. Take reasonable steps to prevent and deter people from crossing into the country illegally.
2. Help to encourage legal immigration. America has some of the least restrictive immigration policies in the world, but the system is too bureaucratic and needs to be streamlined.
3. Help develop the economy of Mexico. Mexico has everything it needs to be a superpower; its government is really the stumbling block. We should actively encourage Mexico to modernize its political system and aggressively cut out the corruption that plagues that system. (We should do this politically not militarily.)
This is a complex problem and I don’t have the time to go into the details right now, but that is the general overview of the mainstream conservative solution.