US Immigration Laws
The United States is very lenient when it comes to letting people come into the country. Honestly, it is not that hard to get into the country if you can stand the screenings at the borders and the airport. We really love having people from all over the world come to visit. The problem is Americans don't like foreigners coming to stay, taking over their jobs and doing it illegally. Then there is the element of racism.
The problem is there is no official US language. While the most common language is English, it is not the official language. Many English speakers feel threatened by the growing Hispanic population who refuse to learn the common language and feel put out by having to accept Spanish as the growing language. This is why the distinction of trying to force the Southern border to be harder to cross rather than the Northern border.
This kind of fear is not a new thing. There was a time when the target of fear was the incoming Irish, the Polish, the Italians and so forth. In times before political correctness, you would see signs in business windows wanting to hire people that specifically said, "Irish need not apply."
The Mexican, Cuban, and other Hispanics come to the US because of the lack of opportunities at home. How hard-hearted and cruel must one be to suggest that we shoot these desperate people trying to cross the border? There are actually people who think this way. They view these people in the same light of criminals who kill or sell drugs. While they are breaking the law and are criminals, the crime they committed is against immigration laws. Most who come to the country under illegal means and start working are usually law abiding people who just want to work and would been in their own country doing the same thing if the opportunity was there.
However sorry one may feel for their situation, one must argue that they are welcomed to come into the country in legal ways. As long as they are contributing to society in a positive way, we should welcome them. There are so many groups and organizations willing to help people acheive legal immigration, even if one crossed over illegally or overstayed a legal visit. When one has breeched immigration laws, they may have a harder time getting legal status, but it is not impossible.
I don't completely buy the argument that immigration is the sole threat to the US job market. We reward big businesses by giving them tax breaks by sponging off the government and outsourcing jobs. We have a congress that has not agreed to up the minimum wage law leaving many people living below poverty. The whole NAFTA and CAFTA deals have only made things worse. It has created substandard wage jobs in Mexico and South America by outsourcing US jobs to places where people will work for less. Those in countries where they do not qualify for such jobs keep coming to the US because picking fruit in fields in hot conditions for long hours and little pay beats starving.
It is not as if Americans won't do the jobs these illegal immigrants are doing. They just want to be paid a good wage to do it. If picking fruit in the field would support a family to cover all the basic needs, you would have many Americans lining up to take those jobs. Those jobs pay less than minimum wage for illegal workers and barely $6 an hour for legal workers. For such hard work, it is not worth the effort when one could apply for welfare.
The danger of illegal immigrants is they are often working for less than minimum wage, are exploited, and as many speak no English are taken advantage of by landlords and other businesses which keep them perpetually at the mercy of others. The businesses and employers exploit them until they can no longer be used and care very little to what happens to them next. That just is not right.
The reason employers seek out illegal workers is so they can get cheap labour. It's all about the cost of doing business. As they are illegal, many do not pay taxes, but can still access the services paid out in taxes. However some do pay taxes and blend well into the population that no one asks questions.
The main fear is coming from a notion of what America is supposed to be...Anglo/Saxon in nature, traditional Protestant Christian, English speaking, everyone the same. It has changed and truly become a melting pot which is disagreeable to those who used to be the majority ruling class.
This kind of culture blending is happening in Europe as well and most people want to discourage it. National identities are being lost to multiculturalism. If this trend were to get out of control, the fear is there would be no distinction of one place to another. We could have a one earth race of people with identical blended cultures of everything. The things that made it special to visit another country would no longer be there. It would be like going to France and expecting a unique French cuisine only to get McDonalds which you could get at home.
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The problem is there is no official US language. While the most common language is English, it is not the official language. Many English speakers feel threatened by the growing Hispanic population who refuse to learn the common language and feel put out by having to accept Spanish as the growing language. This is why the distinction of trying to force the Southern border to be harder to cross rather than the Northern border.
This kind of fear is not a new thing. There was a time when the target of fear was the incoming Irish, the Polish, the Italians and so forth. In times before political correctness, you would see signs in business windows wanting to hire people that specifically said, "Irish need not apply."
The Mexican, Cuban, and other Hispanics come to the US because of the lack of opportunities at home. How hard-hearted and cruel must one be to suggest that we shoot these desperate people trying to cross the border? There are actually people who think this way. They view these people in the same light of criminals who kill or sell drugs. While they are breaking the law and are criminals, the crime they committed is against immigration laws. Most who come to the country under illegal means and start working are usually law abiding people who just want to work and would been in their own country doing the same thing if the opportunity was there.
However sorry one may feel for their situation, one must argue that they are welcomed to come into the country in legal ways. As long as they are contributing to society in a positive way, we should welcome them. There are so many groups and organizations willing to help people acheive legal immigration, even if one crossed over illegally or overstayed a legal visit. When one has breeched immigration laws, they may have a harder time getting legal status, but it is not impossible.
I don't completely buy the argument that immigration is the sole threat to the US job market. We reward big businesses by giving them tax breaks by sponging off the government and outsourcing jobs. We have a congress that has not agreed to up the minimum wage law leaving many people living below poverty. The whole NAFTA and CAFTA deals have only made things worse. It has created substandard wage jobs in Mexico and South America by outsourcing US jobs to places where people will work for less. Those in countries where they do not qualify for such jobs keep coming to the US because picking fruit in fields in hot conditions for long hours and little pay beats starving.
It is not as if Americans won't do the jobs these illegal immigrants are doing. They just want to be paid a good wage to do it. If picking fruit in the field would support a family to cover all the basic needs, you would have many Americans lining up to take those jobs. Those jobs pay less than minimum wage for illegal workers and barely $6 an hour for legal workers. For such hard work, it is not worth the effort when one could apply for welfare.
The danger of illegal immigrants is they are often working for less than minimum wage, are exploited, and as many speak no English are taken advantage of by landlords and other businesses which keep them perpetually at the mercy of others. The businesses and employers exploit them until they can no longer be used and care very little to what happens to them next. That just is not right.
The reason employers seek out illegal workers is so they can get cheap labour. It's all about the cost of doing business. As they are illegal, many do not pay taxes, but can still access the services paid out in taxes. However some do pay taxes and blend well into the population that no one asks questions.
The main fear is coming from a notion of what America is supposed to be...Anglo/Saxon in nature, traditional Protestant Christian, English speaking, everyone the same. It has changed and truly become a melting pot which is disagreeable to those who used to be the majority ruling class.
This kind of culture blending is happening in Europe as well and most people want to discourage it. National identities are being lost to multiculturalism. If this trend were to get out of control, the fear is there would be no distinction of one place to another. We could have a one earth race of people with identical blended cultures of everything. The things that made it special to visit another country would no longer be there. It would be like going to France and expecting a unique French cuisine only to get McDonalds which you could get at home.
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