Alright. I know this is a very sensetive subject with a lot of people on all sides. There are the American born Americans who feel angry about the situation. There are Legal immigrants in America who feel angry. There are legal immigrants who feel sympathy. There are American born American who feel sympathy. There are illegals who are angry at the Americans. There are illegals who feel lucky to be here.
With this many sides, this type of topic can real stir up emotions.
Let me start with saying that I have known lots of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Ecuador. Most of them were in situations where they had to immigrate because of wars, violence, lack of work etc. But many had alright lives there and just came over because it's better here. I must admit that if I was stuck in some buttfuck Mexican town getting paid shit, and being in the midst of drug ring crossfire and corrupt police tactics I would probably immigrate to America too.
But there are obviously problems with this. The U.S. and California have shown that we cannot support nearly as many as we are supporting. There are not enough jobs, resources etc. here for this many people legal or not. Many come to this country and get fake papers (which is very easy especially in L.A..) so they can either work one job under that name, one job under the table, and also receive welfare on a third name. This is incredibly harmful to our budget on a state, local, and federal level.
But look at this realistically. Instead of spouting off facts about how much illegals are hurting our country, and how they're stealing our jobs or whatever else, how about taking a look at the actuality of this situation. South America is not getting any better. It sucks to live there unless you have a lot of money. There is poverty, gang violence, corrupt police and militant groups covering the territories.
So what makes us think that we have the right to judge their motives for coming here? Even if it is simply "for a better life", I can respect that....I mean shit. We stole Mexico from them, and the rest of the U.S. from the Natives. I would just say this is karma.
But it doesn't end on that, whether we deserve it or not. The real point is - No one is ever going to be able to stop illegals from entering the country. Not anymore than we could stop drugs or weapons or child porn from entering the country. We keep focusing on "building a fence", or "increasing border security" when this is a very irrelavent part of the problem.
It's almost like our government doesn't want them to stop coming over here. They "buff up" border patrol once in a while to please the public, but it rarely results in less people immigrating.
So let's assume that we can't stop illegal immigration. Then what? Well, as an anarchist I don't believe in making laws and such to stop the abuse of the system. But this would be a better alternative to what's happening. How about employers verify employees social security cards? How about we announce that "anyone who comes into the hospital or emergency room must be verified as a citizen before treatment". It sounds harsh, but what if we give it a year before we do it. Just let people know it's coming so you better either carry your S.S. card with you, or go run to a country that will take you into their E.R. How about we tighten up welfare and stop letting people with fake social security numbers receive help?
The political side of me says this would work. But still, my anarchist tendencies lead me more towards the point that tax dollars shouldn't be paying for things like healthcare and welfare anyways. So if the only "systems" to rip off were private charities, then it would be the private charitie's responsibility to verify citizenship and/or choose whether they want to serve immigrants or not.
My bottom line here is that we need to take our focus off "those evil illegals" and point the blame at the real criminals. If our government is going to take tax money from us to spend on programs like welfare and medicare then they damn well better scam-proof the system. They want us to blame the illegals because it takes the heat off of them. Just a thought.
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