Posted on 04/08/2019 9:20:45 PM PDT by kathsua
President Donald Trump should start acting like the head of a great nation in dealing with the large number of jobless immigrants on the border. The people coming to the Mexican border are essentially saying they think the United States is a great nation which can provide jobs their own countries cannot. A Great Nation helps people in other nations when it can. The United States under President Harry Truman was a great nation because it helped west European nations recover from the devastation their war had caused.
The United States cannot provide jobs to everyone in the world, but it does have a public works project for the Mexican border that could provide jobs for the immigrants on the border. Hiring the border immigrants to construct The Wall would allow construction in a short period of time. Constructing The Wall would provide immigrants the jobs they need to support their families without taking jobs from those who are already living here. Companies selling goods and services to Wall workers might even be able to add employees. Having the immigrants construct The Wall might be the only way to avoid a humanitarian crisis because other potential approaches are unlikely to be able to create enough jobs for them in time to help. If the United States can provide jobs building The Wall to jobless immigrants, it would be immoral not to hire them. A Great Nation determines what needs to be done and does it.
President Trump might have to switch to a more labot intensive type of wall construction to reduce the cost of materials. He could hire the immigrants now even though there would be a delay before they could begin working on The Wall. That time could be used to teach them some basic English and to construct housing. They would also receive training in how to build The Wall. After building The Wall they would be available to work on infrastructure projects.
As an historian I recognize that sustained economic growth has involved an increasing population. Except for the baby boomer era the population increase has come from immigration. When the United States limited immigration in the 1920's the limits acted like a lid on the economy and the economy imploded. New immigrants arrive with few possessions so they purchase more goods than established residents. Immigrant families provide even more economic stimulation because parents need to replace clothes and toys the children have outgrown
I don't know how the immigrants view President Trump. The fact that they are coming here looking for jobs implies they think of him the way Dorothy thought of the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Is President Trump just smoke and mirrors or is he the leader of a great nation that helps those in need? The leader of a Great Nation would do everything he can to deal with the crisis on the border.
No. A great nation would take illegal aliens invading this country and other criminal elements under incarceration and put them to work in forced labor building the wall.
Ridiculous.
W’re not short the labor or resources to build the wall and far better to pay Americans. We’ve already given far too many jobs to illegals and low-skill legal immigrants over Americans as it is.
And plenty of our wealthiest and most culturally cohesive countries in the modern era are just that because they’ve resisted the lure of cheap, low-skill immigrants.
“COMING HERE TO SUCK OFF OUR WELFARE SYSTEM”—there, that fixes it.
Yep - built a lot of brick streets way back when with chain gang workers....
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