Well, first we need to acknowledge the fact that net migration from Mexico BY MEXICANS
has been near zero or even negative for a few years now.
What does that mean? It means Mexicans aren't streaming across the border in significant numbers and when they do, they're being deported, or if they are criminals, they're being incarcerated and then deported.
Personally, I don't really have much of a problem with that, we're enforcing the laws, and that's what any country does, so be it.
I'm assuming you probably feel much the same.
So who are these people? They're Central American refugees from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
What obligates us to take them in or at least process them humanely and take those we can manage?
Simple:
In the short term, the problems are due to the typical tin horn banana republic corruption and inefficiencies, and that is not our fault. El Republico de Bananas have always BEEN El Republico de Bananas.
Their LONG TERM problems however, ARE INDEED due to LONG TERM foreign policy dating back to Reagan.
Starting with Reagan we funded and trained large mercenary armies in all four countries to project our foreign policy on their weak governments. Our actions in Nicaragua made the headlines with the Contra scandal.
But we were doing much the same thing in the other three countries as well.
Well, when those nice Reagan era paychecks stopped, the mercs did what mercs always do, they searched for new employers.
THE DRUG CARTELS.
And today's MS-13 are nothing more than the children and grandchildren of those mercs, and now THEY damn near control these countries, certainly at the civil and social level, and in large part the economic level, even if they aren't controlling it at the government level. In a place like that it doesn't really matter if they control actual government posts because their weak governments do do squat.
Hence, these refugees are the "unintended consequences" or BLOWBACK from our decades old foreign policy.
A little bit of mission creep up here isn't very noticeable...UP HERE.
Down THERE however, it translates to "The USA sneezed, and Central America caught pneumonia".
These refugees are our "chickens coming home to roost".
And again, we cannot possibly take all of them but if we manage to accept 40 or 50 percent of them, that's damn good, consider the problem dealt with and call it a day. It's never going to be perfect.
We can also take a revisit to our foreign policy down there and do what can be done on a humanitarian level, and then LESS of these people will want to flee.
That's as good as it gets on that level too.
If it was just the typical banana republic bull****, the flow of refugees would be a tiny trickle and we wouldn't even hear about it but the reason we are is because it is now a full blown humanitarian crisis.
Lastly, no matter how sophisticated our economy becomes, there will always be a need for an underclass to do jobs we cannot or will not do...ALWAYS. Paths to citizenship or legal residency means taxpayers, and it means we get those jobs done, and it means that eventually, they MAKE IT and become assets rather than liabilities.
We are America...we CAN do BOTH, we always have.
