* It’s odd how desperate people like Flores are, to come to the most racist, evil nation on the planet.
My legal resident wife (of Scandinavian extraction) remarked to her mother recently about an openly illegal immigrant in her public university class. Her mother was confused–why hasn’t she been deported? Why isn’t anyone telling the authorities?
That’s really all that’s broken about our immigration policy.
* In all fairness, Jeffrey Toobin and The New Yorker have been long supporters of open immigration to Israel from Sub Saharan Africa and Islamic countries in the Middle East.
He’s a good guy. Totally being honest and fair. There is no agenda or double standard going on.
* If Mexico was sending it’s creme de la creme to The United States, you would be seeing affluent Mexican neighborhoods popping up all over the Los Angeles metropolitan area, but you don’t. Mexican neighborhoods in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are all lower working class.
It seems that Iran though tend to send it’s creme de creme to The United States, because Persians are over represented among Los Angeles affluent class. Same for China and India. Lot of Chinese nationals are buying up big beautiful expensive homes in affluent neighborhoods in Southern and Northern California. The same can not be said for Mexican nationals.
* ‘A job in a nearby city would have required a high school certificate, while she only had a middle school certificate’.
Yup. The implication being that entry level accreditations are somehow lower in the USA than in Mexico. An interesting proposition to say the least.
* At one time, there were non-Spanish Whites, Middle Easterners and others who found in Mexico an opportunity, but it would be slim pickings today for most even if they could legally go there to work. That goes double for Americans, who are not really wanted in Mexico except as rich dumb tourists.
For most nonwealthy people, the United States is still the place where one has the best chance of “success” in the entrepreneurial sense. However, I will say that French truck drivers and German autoworkers and European aircraft mechanics generally probably live a more secure and comfortable life than their American counterparts. Being a factory worker in western Europe means you don’t worry about healthcare, college for your kids, or about getting fired unless you commit some enormously grave offense. You have a smaller house and if you have a car it’s a little schumerbox, and if you need to be De Gaullebladdered in France plan on several months on the waiting list. If you need a MRI anywhere in Europe it’s a big deal.
Most of us are not entrepreneurs, and since only a small number of us can be successful entrepreneurs by definition, the hassle of trying to do a startup in Europe isn’t why we wouldn’t like living there. The lack of living space is.
* I listened to Rick Santorum being interviewed on Fox’s Special Report tonight. I was very impressed with what he had to say about immigration. I think he’s making the best argument, one that would be the hardest for Democrats to respond to. Main points:
–Immigration policy must be based on what best serves the interests of Americans, not some altruistic or idealistic vision.
–Use e-verify and enforce employee sanctions to drive illegals from the workplace.
–Illegal immigration is depressing the wages of Americans and largely accounts for wage stagnation since the 1970s.
–We don’t need more unskilled workers when we don’t have enough work for our own.
–The so-called skilled workers we’re bringing in are mostly ordinary programmers replacing American workers and contributing nothing of great value.
–Cut LEGAL immigration by 25 percent. We don’t need to import over a million new workers a year.
* What strikes me is the massive evil of taking these people from their tribal homes and forcing them to try to live in Western Civilization. The results of that experiment have been the greatest social disaster in history for both the Africans and the Europeans. When you watch the African in his native habitat and culture, so much of what you see in the American ghettos begins to make sense. It is every bit as cruel and perverse as it would be to force Europeans to live in African villages and abide their customs. The only possible result is destruction.
* The early American and Australian settlers came to undeveloped territory where they had two options: (1) work very hard (and intelligently) to scrape survival from the land or (2) die. Conflating this with the current immigrant is nonsense. The current immigrant bears zero risk of hunger or death (unless shot during commission of a crime). He has no need to work – the State will provide him a luxurious air conditioned home, food, transportation, and medical care. To the extent he may decide to work, his income is supplemented by State welfare gifts along with what he may steal (by avoiding taxation).
This is such obvious common sense that when you hear someone conflating immigrants prior to the 1920′s to current immigrants its an immediate red flag that the speaker is an anti-white (or anti Western Civilization) fanatic.
