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Immigration Honesty Those who wish to help people who are in this country illegally have created terminology which is dishonest. They now call illegal aliens undocumented immigrants. While it is true these people are undocumented, they are undocumented because they are here illegally. These same people are also ignoring or arguing against some essential facts which, if accepted and acted upon, would actually help illegal aliens more than just trying to get amnesty for them. These facts involve the process of getting here illegally, the conditions which lead most people to come to this country illegally and means of addressing these conditions. The Process of Getting Here. The process of getting here illegally often involves human smuggling traffic. This process is itself dangerous and degrading. There have been many reports of enclosed trucks being discovered in the desert packed with dead human beings who were trying to come to this country illegally. The people who are smuggling illegals into the country have little or no respect for life, but are merely out to make a quick buck. They make promises for money and are willing to abandon the undertaking at the first sign that they might have trouble. Others try to reach the country by means which are unsafe, such as by boats which are not meant to travel the open seas. These ways of getting here illegally can be stopped by proper means which do not have to include amnesty and open borders. Why They Come Here. Most people come here illegally from Mexico and other countries South of the United States. While some may be terrorists and criminals, most in fact are coming here to have a better life. They can have a better life here primarily for two reasons: A stronger economy and relatively free economic and political systems. Our country cannot house all of the people in the world who come from countries that have developing or undeveloped economies, or that have totalitarian and unjust political regimes. Thus, we should adopt means of addressing the problems in these countries that will allow these people to stay in their own countries. Addressing the Conditions. Efforts need to be made to encourage more equitable political and economic conditions in undeveloped and underdeveloped countries. The best that could be done is to have freely-elected representative forms of government and vibrant market-based economies in these countries. NAFTA was an effort to address the economic conditions in Mexico, and the effort to expand NAFTA to more of Central and South America was made in pursuit of the same ends. Yet full implementation of NAFTA and the extension of the agreement to more of Central and South America was opposed by many of the same liberals who supposedly want to help the illegal aliens who are in this country. President Bush's efforts and efforts by some of his predecessors to encourage democratic regimes in nations which do not have them are part of the effort to improve the lives for all in these underdeveloped or developing countries. Yet these efforts often have been or are now opposed or said to be impossible of achievement by the same people who supposedly want to help the illegal aliens who are in this country. Many of the people favoring amnesty and more immigration also oppose the spread of capitalism throughout the world. There are claims that a global economy based upon capitalism is unjust, partially because of the presence of child labor. Yet historically the transition from an agrarian economy to a capitalistic economy has always involved a period of time when children who once worked on the farm worked in factories. Such was necessary to build up the capital base which would allow for the end of child labor. By trying to impose the conditions present in a developed market-based economy upon countries which are just trying to make the transition from agrarian to capitalistic economies in fact keeps that transition from occurring. In short, those who claim to want to help people from poor countries and countries with unjust governmental systems oppose the very processes which have the best chance of changing the circumstances of such people. Such opposition is unjust. Success of such efforts would also deal with one of the supposed concerns of those who claim to want to help illegal aliens - the break up of families. There is more damage done to families by productive people leaving their families in illegal efforts to come to this country than the proper deportation of such people. As the efforts for improving the conditions in other countries take hold, more justice will be done, including the ability of this country to adopt and enforce reasonable immigration policies. |
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