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I'm some OK with the dreamers, but we can't keep having invasions from Mexico every time the economy heats up. They used to be known as "Anchor Babies" before the word police clamped down. It will keep happening over and over if we don't take our borders seriously. I don't know your personal situation, but in California most of the Mexican families are dirt poor to lower middle class, and are adding to the poverty rolls already over populated with other races.
Because they are escaping from poverty they are a much more motivated work force that our citizens, and are often a lot easier to get along with. I'll grant you that. But that does not make it right.
It's about controlling who comes in and who doesn't.
Maybe all the rich Mexicans moved to your town.
I totally agree that it's about controlling who comes in and who doesn't.
And we do need to actually clamp down on illegal immigration.
But, throwing out the "dreamers" is the wrong way to go. We need to end the exploitation of illegal labor, and no one is willing to give that idea more than lip service.
No, the "rich Mexicans" aren't living in my town. I think the're staying in Mexico. Who is living here are Hispanics, some from Mexico but mostly born in America, mostly lower middle class, mostly good citizens. As a "white non Hispanic," the government's official designation of me, I'm a minority here, and that's OK. How many of my neighbors are illegal, I don't know. Probably not many. Some of them no doubt date to Spanish California.
When Reagan signed amnesty into law back in the '80s, the little rural school where I was teaching was overrun by children who did not speak English and who had little to no formal education and who mostly didn't want to be here. We were poorly equipped to deal with such an invasion. I have first hand experience with amnesty, and am adamantly opposed to it.
I also knew students who were brought here as small children and had grown up in America. English was their preferred language. Many were honor roll students. They were quite different from the recent arrivals. Those are the ones who should stay.
Yes, by all means, let's control who comes into our country, but let's be honest about the cause of illegal immigration. The government is not willing to end it. Trump's "wall" idea has been bandied about before, and every time it's just a political game to make people think that the government is serious about illegal immigration. When they start handing out big fines to the people who are exploiting the illegals, then I'll start to believe. Until then, I remain skeptical.