Thread: Border Laws and Immigration

WARNING: Bleeding Heart AND Moron Alert!

Border Laws and Immigration
By guardian of death - Posted on August 27th, 2007

Ok i was actually torn between many topics for my second post. (THANKIES to everyone who commented on my first)
http://www.progressiveu.org/224938-seco ... mmigration

The topics i was thinking were obesity, border laws, or integration and diverstity...

I chose border laws.... here is my point of view.

Living on a border city on the Texas, Mexico border, I realize how much we actually need the immigrants and what injustices are going on in our country. I think the first time it really hit me was when I was younger and my mom and I were walking out of the grocery store with rotisserie (spelling?) chicken and a lady came up to us and joked that she was going to take a chicken from us. She them told us about how she and a group of people had made a grueling journey across the border in the back of a van with unsanitary conditions after paying the driver an extremely huge amount of money to transport them across the border... illegally. I don't know where to begin on this topic actually, so i will begin with a point that seems most reasonalbe as to why i really didn't see this as immoral or unethical on these people's parts.

American businesses move over to mexico to hire cheap labor so they can mass produce products and raise their profit seeling their products back in the US for way more than it costs to make their product. The salories of the workers aren't even like 1/10th of what the company makes off the product. This is the unethical part, that companies cross into other countries so they can maximize profit at the expense of their workers. If a worker in a company in mexico makes approximately $30 a week, that is lucky. The wages just aren't fair. So about a day's work here even in labor as gardeners and such pays about the same amount as a week's worth of labor over there.

I would be more against it if wages were fairer and the mexican government wasn't so corrupted and made it so difficult to gain US citizenship. It costs a lot of money and these people don't make enough on wages across the border to pay to become citizens. Instead they pay what is known as a 'coyote,' a person who sneaks them across the border at a price, to basically play high-stakes frogger. If they are caught they can face major consequences, but if they are not, they look forward to working in the US as labor forces but still have to keep an eye on their back at all times. Either way it is totally risky.

I think it is very noble for these people to cross the border to seek better pay. Why? Because they don't do it out of selfishness, these people sacrifice everything for their families. They aren't moving over here to have a better life, instead they risk everything on working here to send money back to their families in mexico to pay for their living over there and maybe try to make them citizens of the US.

Furthermore, The people in the white house don't realize the impact it has on border cities. Our economy depends on immigrants crossing to work labor jobs that no one else would work. Most americans are too proud to be out in the field picking corn or crops, so it isn't as if they are taking our jobs. The government needs to chill-ax.

then do it the right way...the way my parents did it....LEGALLY..and then there is no problem....why should we reward the "line cutters" and let the people that are waiting legally ..keep waiting?... That would be rewarding someone who broke the law......
The Illegals should go home...and then we can start taking people that have been waiting in line and allow them to come here legally...
We are Not against immigrants...LEGAL ONES!!!!!!!!!

Was this posted on our site? This guy is a lunatic.

"Living on a border city on the Texas, Mexico border, I realize how much we actually need the immigrants and what injustices are going on in our country."

Shouldn't Mexico's politicians be responsible for correcting the injustices in its own country that result in Mexicans wanting to leave their third-world hell-hole country?

Mexico-fix your own probles, so we don't have to!!