Oh my GAWD! Nigel Stark is right! People are rushing into our country to pick our vegetables, scrub our toilets, and mow our lawns for barely enough money to feed themselves! What a “HUGE threat to our country!” Can’t we just nuke Mexico?
There’s certainly no easy solution to the immigration “problem,” or the need to secure our borders. The government can’t control contraband getting into a walled and guarded prison, so how can it realistically seal off an entire country? And the hope of being treated like normal human beings rather than exploited servants may indeed have given Mexicans, and others, yet another reason to come to America.
So let's keep perspective here. How many more Mexicans are really trying to immigrate now than before Bush’s ploy to secure the Hispanic vote? Probably not “90%” more. Probably not even 20% more. They may give Bush’s promise as the popular reason for their crossing today (especially when prompted by the question of whether “Bush’s amnesty proposal” was their reason).
But Bush or no Bush, most would have still been seeking a better life in America. They always have, and they always will until opportunities in their country equal those here.
Written by Randy Henderson, a regular contributor to NEXT.
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