You've gotta give credit to the people who go out there and argue in favor of deporting undocumented immigrants; because they have to frame their arguments in such delicate terms in order to avoid sounding racist or arrogant towards poor immigrants.
A guy just said, “Allowing immigrants to enter the US at an unregulated rate could potentially cripple our public schools and healthcare system due to a sudden increase in demand.”
Translation: “Do you really want a bunch of uneducated Mexicans coming into this country and multiplying at triple the rate of whites and Asians?”
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The first guy arguing in favor of opening up the borders was also speaking carefully when he said, “immigrants have made us a prosperous, dynamic and free country.”
Translation: “Without immigrants; many you people who consider yourselves middle class, would actually be lower class.”
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I have never seen a Mexican American beggar.
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Should the argument be that immigration law should somehow reflect the amount of unskilled workers we need?
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Another delicately spoken quote from one of the panelists in favor of less stringent immigration policies, “We need to open our borders in order to encourage a circular flow. Studies have shown that 80% of Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico, but due to increased enforcement, they now chose to stay in the U.S. for the duration of their lives due to the difficulty of getting back in.”
Translation, “We don’t want a bunch of old Mexicans here. If they’re gonna be here, it might as well be while they’re young and able to work.”
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Mexican Americans are different from most African Americans because they chose to come to here.
Mexican Americans are different from Asian Americans because they didn’t have to get on a plane to get to here.
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Actual quote from a different guy in support of less stringent enforcement at the Mexican border – arguing that the money spent there should be spent on more pressing national security concerns:
“The terrorists came in through the front door, and meanwhile we’re sending our resources down there to catch dishwashers and roofers.”
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Later, the same guy says this while making a similar argument:
“We’ve got terrorists enrolling in flight schools, and meanwhile the government’s using its resources to go after yardsmen and maids and janitors.”
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Then later, one of the men in favor of strict enforcement of immigration laws argues that part of the rationale behind strict immigration law at all borders is to make sure that “critical American infrastructure remains secure.”
And then the same guy who made the “yardsmen” quote rebuts by saying, “Hey, I like McDonald’s, but it’s not a critical infrastructure that needs to be secure.”
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My opinion is that immigrants have made this country great, and they are going to come into this country whether it is legal or not, so we might as well save our money on extreme enforcement, and document them so they can start paying taxes.
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