Thread: Border Crossings or Flood Gates?

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Border Crossings or Flood Gates?

Saturday, June 18, 2005



One in every 11 people born in Mexico is now living in the United States, according to a a study of immigration trends by the Pew Hispanic Center (search). That's 10.5 million Mexicans, more than half of whom are here illegally.

“The situation is simply out of control,� said immigration activist Ira Mehlman, of the Federation for Immigration Reform.

Illegal immigrants, whom this study refers to as "unauthorized migrants," are pushing down the quality of schools and pushing up crime rates and health care costs, the study says. Because they primarily work low-wage jobs, Mehlman says they're pushing out the middle class and creating a Third World subculture within the United States (search).

“We're destroying what we have in this country,� Mehlman said. “We're obliterating the future for our children and we're doing it for the sake of a few employers who want low-wage labor.�

Latino labor leaders say Mexicans are coming north looking for better lives and that low-wage jobs here are better than no jobs there. Besides, they ask, if immigrants don't take those jobs, who will?

“You go to any part of California and the Southwest â€â€

She's driving through the countryside watching foreign nationals pick crops today that yesterday were picked by Americans until the foreign nationals she's watchin' took their jobs...illegally.

We're growin' less food every year, so we need less pickers every year. We're growin' less food every year, because we're developing all the farmland at an alarming rate because foreign nationals have invaded the construction industry resulting in more development than would have otherwise occured.

She's obviously just a Union Organizer and doesn't know much about farming or economics.

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