Thread: A Taboo Thought for a Pro-Immmigration Liberal to Have

A Taboo Thought for a Pro-Immmigration Liberal to Have
From Po:

I believe we are all immigrants, in the United States. I believe the United States benefits dramatically from letting in people who really want to be here.

But I have started to think it is getting out of hand, and perhaps we should moderate the flow of new immigrants to a sustainable pace. Our research into America's schools has made me aware of how our educational system is breaking down where it is serving enormous immigrant student populations. If we're not giving these children a decent education, we are not helping them.

This is a taboo thought for me. I have never felt this way previously. My most long-standing friends in San Francisco are all immigrants - many of them who arrived illegally. I never thought I would be saying this.

It would be easy to miss the shift that has happened over the last few years. The difference is a matter of scale and degree. The steady trickle of new Americans has become a massive repopulation program, primarily from Mexico. During the 1970s, 120,000 Mexicans came to the U.S. every year. During the 1980s, it was about 200,000 a year. During the 1990s, it was 350,000 a year. Today, it's 485,000 - every year. One out of every eight Mexican adults -- those born in Mexico -- are now living in the U.S.

Mexican migration to the U.S. is the largest sustained migration movement in the world. Think about that. Due to war and famine, millions are fleeing back and forth across borders in Africa and Asia, and they have been for years. But Mexico-US migration dwarfs them all.

Over the last week, Ashley has convinced me that the Mexican government has used this repopulation program for its gain. Rather than having its own social support network, it has encouraged its poorer citizens to leave - and send money back. So the Mexican government officially states that it is fully cooperating with the United States to quell this mass-migration, but they are doing the opposite.

I have asked Ashley to post on this topic in depth. It's a very sensitive issue. Never before in this blog have we attacked a foreign government. But we've taken on the New York Times, Diane Sawyer, and our own government - and we haven't made too many enemies yet. So here goes.

Andreia said...

Po
Your post reminds me of a conversation I had with a woman that worked for me when I lived in El Paso.

When she arrived at my home one morning she had a small Mexican flag hanging out of her purse. I asked her if it was a holiday of some type. She told me that she always carried the small flag to remind her that her heart would always be in Mexico. I am a Brasilian by birth and I understood this sentiment. It was the next thing that she said that bothered me most.

She went on to tell me all that she disliked about the United States while acknowledging that her children were being educated here and she was working at a rate that she could not get at home. I was shocked at her disdain for the country that gave her so much.

I was naturalized as a US Citizen and sat by people that cried tears of joy at the ceremony. They had worked hard to get in that ceremony. They were grateful and loyal. It was humbling to me as a teenager who had grown numb to all that we as Americans enjoy.

I am afraid that the day of the grateful immigrant is over. The recent protests were disturbing to me. In the evening new interviews here in Houston, I saw kids asserting their right to citizenship and the right to their education. Never once did I see any of the spirit I did that day in the US District Court.
7:13 AM

http://www.pobronson.com/blog/2006/04/t ... ation.html

She went on to tell me all that she disliked about the United States

And the "fluff for brains" idiots in Washington want to make millions of people like her LEGAL, thereby creating a massive enclave of people who have nothing but disdain for the US and see us only as an ATM machine. I can't begin to imagine the horrendous problems that will surface by legalizing people that don't value or respect this country. Since they know we are already dumb enough to give them everything, they will demand more freebies at our expense. The social problems will eventually explode and will exact a heavy toll on this Nation. This has to be stopped, unless we want to live in "Mexico-extended."