How to stop illegal immigration
A fascinating insight into the debate on immigration in Mexico features this revealing sentence: "The elites want to help get more rights for Mexicans in the United States; the immigrants themselves just want better-paying jobs at home so they won't have to go to the United States in the first place."
I'll say it again: if you want to stem the tide of illegal immigration, invest in the Mexican economy.
Not as emotionally satisfying as building a wall, I grant- but far more likely to be effective.
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The laws have changed, but the reality that we have jobs that need workers. We benefit then from lower costs of production and services, the benefits of which are passed on to others.
When my ancestors- or yours- came to the country, they had to comply with the law. My ancestors entered the country legally; chances are, so did yours. And how do we screen out those who do come into the country to kill somebody, if they're allowed to sneak in? Just as a talking point, forty percent of the population of California's state prisons are illegal immigrants!
Nor is it the case that there are jobs in this country that "need doing," and that Americans won't do. It's that Americans won't do them as cheaply as illegal immigrants will. We don't benefit form the lower costs of production and services. Rather, many of us are deprived of jobs that should, by rights, pay a great deal more because people who are in the country illegally are willing to do them for less.