Illegally yours


I don't object because of jobs
More than a week ago I said I would tackle illegal immigration again.

I've no objection to immigrants working in the U.S. at whatever jobs they can get their hands on. There are actually more jobs now than there were three years ago, five years ago, ten years ago, and twenty years ago.

Those jobs may not all be in the same field, and not every job pays more than it did then. Still, the number of jobs is growing, the economy is growing, and opportunities are growing.

Don't buy into the lie that illegal immigrants steal jobs from good Americans. It is not true and never has been.

But in a free market, there is nothing that guarantees that you will always have a job. If someone has more value to offer, then they will get the business. Notice that word value. That doesn't always mean a lower price. Factors like reliability, trust, and image also play a part. None the less, if it is a choice between paying someone $27 dollars per hour plus benefits or manufacturing somewhere else and spending less even with shipping, guess what most companies are going to do?

No, the real question for American workers is how to offer more value to justify their cost? One way is expertise, it's why engineers are paid more than janitors.

Now my problems with illegals are simpler. First, I think that any non-citizen who commits a violent crime or a property crime should be kicked out of the county never to return. No exceptions. It's a privilege for visitors to be here, not a right.

Second, I don't think non-citizens should get social benefits. I don't think citizens should get social benefits either, but that is another entry.

Third, I don't think birth in this nation should automatically confer citizenship.

Fourth, I am tired of the rule of law being undermined in the name of "civil rights." Non-citizens do not have a right to vote. Generations of immigrants arrived and added to the nation without having alternate languages provided for them. And claiming civil rights violations to keep violent criminals here offends both the spirit and the law.

Those are my issues

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - November 6, 2007 at 03:15 PM  Tag


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