Posted on 07/10/2014 12:36:31 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
No one knows just how many tens of thousands of Central American nationals -- most of them desperate, unescorted children and teens -- are streaming across America's southern border. Yet this phenomenon offers us a proverbial teachable moment about the paradoxes and hypocrisies of Latin American immigration to the United States.
For all the pop romance in Latin America associated with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, few Latinos prefer to immigrate to such communist utopias or to socialist spins-offs like Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Peru.
Instead, hundreds of thousands of poor people continue to risk danger to enter democratic, free-market America, which they have often been taught back home is the source of their misery. They either believe that America's supposedly inadequate social safety net is far better than the one back home, or that its purportedly cruel free market gives them more opportunities than anywhere in Latin America -- or both.
Mexico strictly enforces some of the harshest immigration laws in the world that either summarily deport or jail most who dare to cross Mexican borders illegally, much less attempt to work inside Mexico or become politically active. If America were to emulate Mexico's immigration policies, millions of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. immediately would be sent home.
How, then, are tens of thousands of Central American children crossing with impunity hundreds of miles of Mexican territory, often sitting atop Mexican trains? Does Mexico believe that the massive influxes will serve to render U.S. immigration law meaningless, and thereby completely shred an already porous border? Is Mexico simply ensuring that the surge of poorer Central Americans doesn't dare stop in Mexico on its way north?
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Same way immoral special interests get everything else. Just go on up to Capitol Hill and start spreadin’ the cash around.
Just immigration law? How about all the other ones?
Immoral special interests = the Democrat and Republican parties.
The Detroit party aka DemocRats are the problem. Commie pink fags. It’s all about the freebies.
Wow, he made the case better than anyone I’ve heard so far.
They are all Democrats. That’s how.
The leftwing (absolutely including some powerful Republicans) was setting this up back in the seventies.
It has been long planned and carried out step by step.
Amid border crisis, Obama to take 15-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard
What is Obama getting out of this? Nobody has answered that question.
Even many Dems and most ordinary Hispanics hate it and are very upset about this.
Cui bono? Who benefits? And how does Obama benefit?
You’re kidding, right??? Its Cloward/Piven in SPADES!!! CHAOS....OVERWHELM the GOVT, and when it collapses, re-do it in his own COMMUNIST WAY!!! Plus he and the Democrats get MILLIONS of new DEMOCRAT VOTERS!! They just can’t rely on DEAD and FRAIDULENT VOTERS for all times!!
I think that’s it, and I’d like to see more people say this. The strange thing is that the immigration ploy is not popular with anybody except the press - that is, many Dems are bailing on it, Hispanics except for the most radical leftists don’t like it, and the rest of the country is freaked out by Obama’s total weirdness.
I wish Perry had been more aggressive in confronting Obama the other day, but Perry wussed out (as he has done before). Still, somebody has got to nail Obama on this.
It has nothing to do with Latin America and not even a lot to do with “immigrants,” and everything to do with some bizarre project that Obama’s handlers have sent him out to do for them.
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