Originally posted by stevewig In a sentence, do not blame the undocumented
workers they are the poor of the earth trying to stay alive and improve
their lives by any and all means available.
I think we may be using quaint obsolete terms from the 19th century.
Many of these folks are no longer immigrants but refugees. Refugees from failed
States and economies, refugees from failed societies and cultures and
environmental refugees from regions where the natural systems can no
longer sustain such high densities of population. At least some of these
conditions are common all over the third world. Come to think about it
perhaps all these conditions are present in the horn of Africa now.
An immigrant is someone who hopes for a better life a refugee is someone
who hopes to simply survive.
I don't blame these folks for doing what they think is necessary just to
survive nor do I blame the countries of Europe and N. America for having
a siege mentality due to this mass migration.
I don't think that national immigration policy should be thought of as a sort of
welfare program for the poor of the earth. Any given society has
practical limits to how many people it can absorb at any given time.
Immigration policy, in my opinion, should primarily reflect the
parochial interests of the host country out of practical necessity.
Immigration should be at the pleasure and convenience of the host
country no more no less.
It may be that the most practical solution right now is to grandfather
in the 13 million illegals we now have in the States but if so it's just
a realistic admission of a failure to protect our own borders in the first place.