Listening some more to different opinions on what to do, on how to solve the “immigrant problem,” I heard this one guy, speaking for the Minute Men, say that he thinks the right and fair way to do this, is to get all the undocumented to report to the Department of Homeland Security and register. Those who report will be given a specified amount of time in which to “settle” all their affairs and “liquidate” all their assets and leave the U.S. for good. Those who do not report and register, if and when caught, will lose everything and be deported immediately.
Let me get this straight- you want people that are currently living “under the radar” to willingly come to this agency, give up everything they have and just walk away from a lifetime of work and whatever hardships they’ve overcome? I wonder what this minute man’s idea of a “fair amount of time” may be. Three months? Six? That’s probably too generous. Who would benefit from this arrangement but the people that would buy properties and life possessions at an otherwise non-available low price anyway? Let’s not forget though; the illegals shouldn’t be here to begin with: end of argument.
Let’s do forget that some of our own, long-enforced policies are the very cause of the current migration patterns. Let’s forget that some of the countries that are currently producing the largest number of migrants are the very same countries whom our policies- economic and military- irrevocably damaged.
I once spoke to this lawyer about legal status and such. His position was so irrational it left me wanting to pummel him, but hey, violence is not the way- I know. He claimed that people here illegally had no right to ask for anything regardless of their background and/or reason for being here. He said being here is akin to walking into a bank and robbing it simply because the bank did not lock their front door. “What are you talking about?!?” I managed to ask him. He continued with his ridiculous analogies further equating illegal entry to the U.S. with other crimes that had not a shred of relation to the subject then at hand.
The amusing thing is that these rather radical thinkers equate the U.S.’s position to that of Israel and their “prevention of terrorist attacks.” I won’t delve into that since I’m no Middle East expert at all nor can I pretend to be one- even for this post. I’d like to see the numbers of terrorists that have, to date, infiltrated the U.S. through the Mexican border. Fact is; most people crossing are looking for jobs and to otherwise escape unlivable conditions. Should other projects be started to cause people to stay home and make a go of it? Yes, certainly. Migration as it stands today is destroying small towns, communities and families at the core level. Without a core base there is nothing. It’s all intertwined. People want to feed their families, they need a job, and they need money. Money that is not available to them locally. Parents are leaving their children at an alarming rate. Children are venturing to the U.S. and dying along the way. Fencing the border will not work, people are desperate enough -they will find an entry point every time. Until corruption can be somewhat mitigated and the economies of these flailing countries rebuilt in some sort of meaningful way, there will be no true reduction of incoming people looking for better opportunities.
I specially like how this whole campaign to seal the border is pimped out under the guise of patriotism. Do they not see the hypocrisy of it all? Where was all this land love when they illegally, forcibly “removed” countless Mexican families from their rightfully owned land? There is too much history not taken into account here. The U.S. sits on its high moral horse when it comes to disciplining and making other nations “do the right thing,” but they continue avoiding to clearly and rightfully address their own.
Yes, let’s make Lebanon apologize and financially compensate the families of that flight. Let’s make Swedish banks distribute the confiscated wealth of the Jewish population during Hitler’s reign of terror. Let’s do all that, it is the right thing to do.
So these people that are supposed to take up the great offer of reporting for deporting? I think they’ll take their chances, don’t you?
Let me get this straight- you want people that are currently living “under the radar” to willingly come to this agency, give up everything they have and just walk away from a lifetime of work and whatever hardships they’ve overcome? I wonder what this minute man’s idea of a “fair amount of time” may be. Three months? Six? That’s probably too generous. Who would benefit from this arrangement but the people that would buy properties and life possessions at an otherwise non-available low price anyway? Let’s not forget though; the illegals shouldn’t be here to begin with: end of argument.
Let’s do forget that some of our own, long-enforced policies are the very cause of the current migration patterns. Let’s forget that some of the countries that are currently producing the largest number of migrants are the very same countries whom our policies- economic and military- irrevocably damaged.
I once spoke to this lawyer about legal status and such. His position was so irrational it left me wanting to pummel him, but hey, violence is not the way- I know. He claimed that people here illegally had no right to ask for anything regardless of their background and/or reason for being here. He said being here is akin to walking into a bank and robbing it simply because the bank did not lock their front door. “What are you talking about?!?” I managed to ask him. He continued with his ridiculous analogies further equating illegal entry to the U.S. with other crimes that had not a shred of relation to the subject then at hand.
The amusing thing is that these rather radical thinkers equate the U.S.’s position to that of Israel and their “prevention of terrorist attacks.” I won’t delve into that since I’m no Middle East expert at all nor can I pretend to be one- even for this post. I’d like to see the numbers of terrorists that have, to date, infiltrated the U.S. through the Mexican border. Fact is; most people crossing are looking for jobs and to otherwise escape unlivable conditions. Should other projects be started to cause people to stay home and make a go of it? Yes, certainly. Migration as it stands today is destroying small towns, communities and families at the core level. Without a core base there is nothing. It’s all intertwined. People want to feed their families, they need a job, and they need money. Money that is not available to them locally. Parents are leaving their children at an alarming rate. Children are venturing to the U.S. and dying along the way. Fencing the border will not work, people are desperate enough -they will find an entry point every time. Until corruption can be somewhat mitigated and the economies of these flailing countries rebuilt in some sort of meaningful way, there will be no true reduction of incoming people looking for better opportunities.
I specially like how this whole campaign to seal the border is pimped out under the guise of patriotism. Do they not see the hypocrisy of it all? Where was all this land love when they illegally, forcibly “removed” countless Mexican families from their rightfully owned land? There is too much history not taken into account here. The U.S. sits on its high moral horse when it comes to disciplining and making other nations “do the right thing,” but they continue avoiding to clearly and rightfully address their own.
Yes, let’s make Lebanon apologize and financially compensate the families of that flight. Let’s make Swedish banks distribute the confiscated wealth of the Jewish population during Hitler’s reign of terror. Let’s do all that, it is the right thing to do.
So these people that are supposed to take up the great offer of reporting for deporting? I think they’ll take their chances, don’t you?
