Main > Everything Else
Illegal Immigration
RacerX:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 21, 2005, 10:25:16 am ---It's not falling on deaf ears. It is impractical, impossible, and not our responsibility so it was ignored.
Hey, maybe it did fall on deaf ears. Is ignoring something deaf ears?
--- End quote ---
It is not impossible. It just takes time. It's what NAFTA and GATT were all about. Opening trade for the benefit of all of us. In the short term, sure, they can provide cheaper labor than we. But over the long hall, as their economy grows, their labor costs would increase as well. Look at Japan. They just recently had to start dealing with labor issues similar to ones that have faced American businesses for years. But it has happened, none-the-less.
It also *is* our responsibility if you want to solve the problem of illegal immigration that you keep whining about.
Do you really want the U.S. to become like East Germany and shoot people who try to cross the border? Is that what you really want? *That* is an idea that should be ignored if I ever heard one.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: RacerX on March 21, 2005, 02:39:53 pm ---It is not impossible. It just takes time. It's what NAFTA and GATT were all about. Opening trade for the benefit of all of us. In the short term, sure, they can provide cheaper labor than we. But over the long hall, as their economy grows, their labor costs would increase as well. Look at Japan. They just recently had to start dealing with labor issues similar to ones that have faced American businesses for years. But it has happened, none-the-less.
--- End quote ---
So whatever happened to a culture working hard to elevate itself? Somehow it is our job to elevate a people who are not willing to do what is necessary to elevate themselves? I say build the wall and put a giant catapult on our side. If they get caught coming over, onto the catapult they go. For you folks that are soft on crime (yes, illegal immigration is ILLEGAL), we'll point the catapult at the ocean.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 21, 2005, 02:34:50 pm ---Yeah, makes perfect sense to me that Spanish originated in Mexico.
--- End quote ---
Eh? Since when are hispanics Spanish? I always understood they were mixed race, although many have some Spanish blood.
That's a bit like saying that everyone who speaks English comes from England.
ChadTower:
No, what it's saying is that just like the Western Europeans wiped out the native people of what is now the US, they wiped out much of the native people of what is now Mexico. The main difference is that the English speakers did it here and the Spanish speakers did it there.
The native peoples of the US and Mexico are pretty much gone.
shmokes:
I don't think the mexicans deserve punishment. We invited them here. Not officially, but the fact that they have jobs waiting for them is invitation. INS could practically ignore the borders if they would just focus their attention on businesses employing illegals. If the demand for illegal workers dried up, the supply would dry up as well.