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My wife and I sponsored a family from El Salvador. They got here legally. It’s very risky to sponsor an immigrant. But my parents did it and I felt it was my duty to them to do it as well.
I’m not anti-immigration, but it sickens me that there are all these people who want to be “compassionate” at somebody else’s expense. “Oh, shove it on the taxpayers, or future generations by way of debt.” Nothing noble or compassionate about that, particularly when you consider that most illegals weren’t starving where they came from.
Americans really need to learn what currency differentials are and what a big deal they can be. For goodness sake, China just devalued its currency for the third time this summer. Why? Because it gives them a trade advantage. Meanwhile, the value of the dollar has been going up, meaning our products are more expensive overseas. But it also means it makes it more attractive for illegals to come into this country to work for increasingly valuable American dollars and spend them at home at lower prices than Americans pay.
And a lot of the money does go back to their home countries. Anybody who has seen Mexicans and Central Americans lined up at post office windows to send money orders back to the home country, would not doubt that for a minute.
And meanwhile, what’s the unemployment rate among black youth? Last I knew it was over 50%.
Isn’t one of the problems with legal immigration that it often takes several years (I’ve heard as many as 10 to 20 years) for immigrants to be able to come to this country? Maybe if the waiting period were shortened, it would encourage more people to take the legal route.
In regard to your comment about ‘compassionate’ people’s behaving this way toward illegal immigrants at the taxpayer’s expense, this may be so but it is also at their own and their family’s expense if they are taxpayers. This is not meant as an excuse to volunteer others’ money, but rather an observation that the so-called “do-gooders” are willing to foot the bill as well.
Are you suggesting that illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from black youth? Perhaps, but I cannot help recalling the same outcry among settled minority groups with regard to legal immigrants for each successive generation. Illegal immigration may have contributed in part to the higher unemployment rate among black youth, but the situation is no doubt more multidetermined than that.
A final observation. Liberals in particular often wonder whether the same negative reaction to illegal immigrants would occur if the majority of illegals were NOT Hispanic. IOW, is there an underlying ethnic prejudice responsible for many of the protestations (not from you, but in general), which has been disguised in terms of pointing to crime rates and unskilled labor?
Sure, have you heard about them bringing them into their own homes?