The pregnant Mexican woman who appears , in the final stages of labor, at the doors of the emergency ward of an El Paso or San Diego hospital, demanding care for herself and the child she is about to deliver, becomes, according to our Immigration system, an "undocumented worker".The child becomes an automatic American citizen by virtue of its place of birth, eligible for all of the usual public welfare benefits. And, with the child comes not only the mother but the childs family. And the mothers family. And the fathers family.Cant break up families, can we? The come to stay and they stay to multiply.
What of it? say the documented liberals, ours is a rich and generous nation, we have room for all, let them come.
And let them stay, say the conservatives, a large, cheap, frightened , docile, surplus labor force is exactly what the economy needs.
Put some fear into those unions, tighten discipline, spur production, whip up the competition for jobs!
The conservatives love their cheap labor, the liberals their cheap cause.(Neither group will, however, invite them into their own homes, not Their homes.Both factions are supported by the cornucopia economists of the ever expanding economy, made not of material, but of human bodies---ignoring that nations that follow these policies, ie, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico, to name three, dont seem to be doing so well. These countries seem more like explosive slow motion disasters, volcanic anthills , than functioning human societies.Meanwhile, los latinos stream north in ever growing numbers.
Meanwhile, here at home in the US of A, we still seem unable to solve our nagging problems, After fifty years of unbridled economic explosion, we remain with unemployment, permanent poverty, an overloaded welfare system, violent crime, clogged courts, packed prisons, white collar crime, eroding farmlands and a poisoned environment. Plus the ongoing destruction of what remains of our forests, fields, mountains, lakes, rivers, and seashores, accompanied by the extermination of whole species of plants and animals.
But, hey, these are only minor problems, fixable, according to the US Immigration Service, by increasing numbers of people.
In my humble opinion, it might be wise for us as American citizens, to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled people(notice I didnt say lazy!) at least until we get our own affairs in order.