The current migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States is one of the largest diasporas in modern history, experts say. Unfortunately, our political "leaders", are so busy lining their pockets, they have left this "hot potato" issue alone too long. Now it is a huge mess that no one wants to deal with.
Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15 percent of Mexico's labor force is working in the United States. One in every 7 Mexican workers migrates to the United States. We are being invaded!
Health care is a big issue with illegal immigrants. In 1970, Illegal immigrants accounted for 6% of all births in the US. Today they account for almost 30%.
In California, almost half the prison population is made up of illegal immigrants .... most of them for drugs and violent crimes.
The burden of labor enforcement has fallen on the Employer and the IRS. Employers are supposed to check work documents or get fined for hiring illegals....Problem solved! If the employer doesn't catch the illegal, undocumented worker, surely the IRS would catch it!
We are supposed to be a nation of laws! Laws that conveniently get ignored when it is in the best interest of the economy or the politicians in power.
Our country is a nation of immigrants .... their courage to leave their country for the hope of building a better life.... Embeds a strong work ethic that is the backbone of our economy. We need immigration to keep competitive in the world economy. We also need immigrants because our baby boomer generation is getting older...we need new, younger workers to fill the huge labor vacuum.
Building a wall is a stupid waste of money....kicking them out is ludicrous.
We need rational policies. We do not need hysteria and racism. We need a policy that is fair to all immigrants. A policy that doesn't favor Mexican immigrants over Hatians. Or Chinese immigrants over Russians. A policy that encourages orderly immigration and deals with the 12-15 million immigrants that have entered the US illegally and undocumented over the past 20 years.
Finally, we need leadership that deals with the root cause of illegal border crossing...a corrupt and ineffective Mexican Government led by President Fox.
My solution is taken out of the George W. Bush playbook.....I say we go to war with Mexico, overthrow the Fox government (like we did in Iraq). Let the Mexican people form a new government...and then we should send Haliburton to Mexico and spend billions of dollars to build Mexico back. All the new jobs and prosperity would reverse immigration....and we'd have millions of Mexicans moving back to a free and prosperous Mexico!
I hope no one thinks I am serious when I write this stuff at 3am..........
