Why the Federal Government Won't End Illegal Immigration
Twenty years ago, this woman was a teenager living in a tiny village in Mexico. She knew no English. Her only close relative, her mother, had emigrated to Southern California for a low-wage job, as she couldn't find work in their home country. Her mother sent her meager wages home to feed her daughter.
When the woman entered the US, she picked strawberries and cleaned homes, while her mother labored unimaginable hours in garment sweatshops. They lived in a tiny, rundown apartment with 14 others.
Through extraordinary determination, years of hard work and a gifted junior college counselor, this woman was one of the few to break the cycle of poverty, lack of education and employment exploitation.
I heard only a few minutes of her stories of rampant intimidation and abuse of immigrants by US employers......it's not the focus of this particular book. I may soon invest more time exploring this tragic situation, though. It's wrong and horribly immoral.
In the meantime, please read my article, Profits & Poverty, Social Security & Starvation - Why the US Can't Afford to End Illegal Immigration. It explains the quiet, cruel exploitation of a certain group of uneducated immigrants by the US government and US employers, and why neither desires to end the flow of cheap labor from over the United States' southern border.
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In 2007, Philip J. Romero updated his earlier study for the Governor’s office estimating that illegal aliens in California now receive somewhere between $9.6 and $38.2 billion more in state services than they pay in state taxes. If the issue of illegal immigration were resolved correctly, it would either completely remove or go a long way toward resolving the current state deficit.
Michael Zweig in his 2004 publication ‘What’s Class Got to do With It, American Society in the Twenty-first Century’ asserts that poverty in the United States is cyclical in nature with roughly 12% to 15% living below the federal poverty line at any given point in time, and roughly 40% falling below the poverty line at some time within a 10 year time span.
So 300,000,000 people minus 15% equals 255,000,000 meaning about 45,000,000 people are living in abject poverty right now in the USA and again about 40% of the entire USA population reach poverty levels at some time in a 10 year period.
Now the modern liberals assert that there are approximately 12,000,000 illegal immigrants in the entire country as per the Pew Hispanic Center estimate so it should be obvious to even the casual observer that replacing 12,000,000 illegal workers who cost more in social services than they pay in taxes from the large number of citizen workers living in poverty on public assistance (and many more close to it) who would then work for income and pay taxes would be a GOOD thing for the national interest.
Modern liberals tend to be Democrats and Democrats often have their bases of power in poverty affected areas. It is not in their political interest to end illegal immigration and public assistance for the masses living in poverty capable of working. Doing so; however, would be extremely beneficial to the national interest of the United States on many levels beyond just the great economic benefit that would result.
Instead what we see are dysfunctional efforts to do just the opposite. Efforts to increase visas and immigration of foreigners is being conducted to fill so-called “shortages”.
Though 40% of Americans cycle in and out of poverty in any given 10 year period, modern liberals want to import workers from foreign nations to do jobs that Americans historically performed and would be doing if they were empowered to do so and not kept down by a codependent idology on public assistance. Everything from agriculture, small businesses, engineering, nursing, teaching, etc… the list is almost endless of what Americans are willing to do if the need is created by ceasing to rely on foreigners and Americans are empowered with the opportunity while being weaned off public assistance.
Complicating matters is the immigrant network that eventually took over. As immigrant workers persisted in certain vocations they brought their friends and relatives to fill vacancies as they occurred. As immigrants came to dominate entire sections of the workforce, the language and culture of the workplace changed in ways that made American workers out-of-place. Plus, employers used them to break unions and undercut American workers.
The result is that technology and productivity of immigrant-enclave jobs tend to be frozen, guaranteeing that dirty jobs get less and less attractive to Americans. Indeed, industries dependent on immigrant workers often turn protectionist when they realize that even low immigrant wages are not sufficient to ensure their survival in the global marketplace. That’s what we see in agriculture today; an area ripe for reform.
America and its citizens lose out in many important ways: They are not able to compete directly with immigrant workers in the labor market resulting in soaring public social costs and greatly diminished tax revenue, higher prices for the goods produced by immigrant workers are passed on to the consumer because the industries preserved by them demand protection from imports, the national value system and culture are systematically displaced, etc…
Modern liberals want to keep the citizens of this country living in poverty to protect their base of power while they import foreigners to do jobs that tens of millions of American citizens living in poverty should be doing.
Neo-conservatives support the current status quo because of their desire for the lowest possible labor cost. Neither group aligns itself with what is best for the long-term national interest of the country and its citizens.
But Cicero’s observation in 55 BC is the antithesis of the modern liberal position today:
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Want to resolve Illegal immigration — once and For all ?? Solution! NATIONALIZE THE INS LAWS ( Title 8 USC ) to become a STATE LAW. We did just this with the old Federal Drug laws — NOW all are State laws ! Illegal People and illegal Drugs are the same !