It's a little late to round up all the illegals and send them packing. Without errecting the American equivlant to the berlin wall, it's a waste of time and money anyway, as they'll be right back in no time at all.
I have conceded to myself, that i live in province of Mexico. Actual Americans are becoming a minority. In many places they already are, in other places they eventually will be. Neighborhoods that were nice, classic American suberbia, are slowly degrading because of the increasing amount of mexicans moving in. Often 4 familes to a house and things like that. I like to joke that Mexico has decide to toss the treaty of Guadalope hildalgo out the window and reclaim the land we won from them back during the mexican American War. It's not far from the truth. I say this in sarchasm, but I gotta hand it to them, their invading our country, occupiing large portions of it, reaping the land for all its worth, and doing it all without firing a shot, pretty slick.
Without sarchasm, Illegals, i see as a domestic version of outsourcing. They do take jobs from Americans, but theres really nothing you can do about it. (Big buisnesses final triumph over organized labor) Being realistic for a moment, the only viable solution (that i would like) is to cut our losses, accept the damn bastards that are already here, and then erect aforementioned "Berlin wall" to keep the rest of them bastards out. However, that is an "active" project, requiring alot of patrolling, and beefing up our southern border is going to be a huge cost of money. A cost that probably nobody is going to want to pay. I wish we would.
So degressing on that thought, there really isnt anything we can do about it. The only thing that will send those people home, is if our economy crashs and they don't do any better here then they did there.
I once heard George Carlin (yes i know many of you guys hate him) said something along the lines of "placating the middle class" to keep our minds off of how "we're getting screwed by the upper 1%". If you think about it, he's right. It's the upper 1% that are ultimatly calling the shots on things like this. Buisness, big buisness, love things like domestic outsourcing. It's my beleif that the way things are going, eventually they'll be two types of people in the US. CEO's, and wallmart employees. Everything in between will have been automated, or outsourced to China, India, or Mexico. Im no economics guru, but it seems to me the "economic stimulus" to get people to get out and buy something, is a big hint at just how badly things are f*cked up. We should be a producing nation, not a consuming nation.
|