Thread: Top 10 reasons to stop illegal immigration

Top 10 reasons to stop illegal immigration
Published: May 22, 2011


Editor,

Listed below are several of the arguments that have been used by misguided people to try and justify illegal immigration. Next to each is the reason why these arguments are nonsense.

1) They are an economic necessity. Not true. The idea that a bunch of desperately poor, uneducated, unskilled, illegal foreigners are an economic necessity is ludicrous. In fact, when you compare cost vs. benefit, it is obvious that they are not only not a necessity, they are not even an asset. Rather, they are a liability and a huge one at that.

2) They do work Americans won't do. Not true. They do work Americans won't do for $7 an hour (especially if Americans can collect welfare and unemployment forever). Of course, if you got rid of the illegals, the jobs wouldn't pay $7 an hour. The people who wanted the work done would have to pay a wage that was attractive enough to get Americans to do the work.

3) They work and contribute to our society. So do I. And if I break the law and commit crimes, I can expect to pay a penalty of some kind.

4) They are just trying to make better lives. Aren't we all? The difference is that most of us understand that we don't have a right to acquire by illegal means those things that we find difficult to acquire by legal means. And we certainly don't have the right to do it in a foreign country. Mexico does not allow foreigners to enter their country illegally and break it's laws.

5) It is impossible to round up and deport the illegals. We don't have to. All we have to do is remove the incentives that brought them here in the first place. No jobs. No housing. No taxpayer financed services or benefits.

6) It would be too expensive to round them up and deport them. See No. 5.

7) Immigration control is racist. This is just another play of the race card by people who have no other cards to play. Immigration control is the world-wide status quo. There is nothing racist about it. Furthermore, the USA welcomes legal immigrants of all races and ethnicities from all over the world who have gone through the legal immigration process.

8. We are a nation of immigrants. Not true. I am not an immigrant. Nor were my parents or grandparents. We are, however, a nation that has, historically, allowed and even encouraged legal immigration. And we continue to do so. The issue at hand is illegal immigration, which has nothing to do with legal immigration

9) They are people. We must treat them humanely - Yes and yes. But lets not pretend like they are victims who were dragged here kicking and screaming against their will. Nothing could be further from the truth. They came of their own free will and for their own benefit and they broke the law to do it. People should not be rewarded for breaking laws and committing crimes. Sending them home is the right thing to do. There is nothing "draconian" about it.

10) It is wrong to break up families. Yes. Unfortunately, families are often broken up by criminal activity. If you don't believe it, just drop by any prison or jail on visiting day. We can't keep families together if some family members choose to participate in criminal activity.

No other country on earth allows foreigners to come in illegally, work illegally, steal jobs from it's citizens, break laws, commit crimes, evade taxes, etc. And there are no rational reasons why

Robert Dinkelacker,

St Johns


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I get so sick of the breaking up families argument. Nobody is breaking up families. This is a false assumption that some must stay. Many illegals voluntarily break up their families when one comes here to work. If the argument that the children don't know their country of origin or those born here is true, why doesn't the reverse argument get stated when children are brought here? Fact is, the language and culture is practiced in the home and their spawn are bi-lingual. And there are jobs in the home countries, particularly for those who speak English and have stolen a good American education. We get to thinking of these countries as totally poor, but they have industry and an upper and middle class.

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