Earth to Wall Street Journal: Clueless on immigration.

National Review Online ^ | January 28, 2004 | Mark Krikorian

[RKV]

Biometrics? Retina and fingerprints could do the job without the need for paper.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Pa' fuera]

Hey, if they want to come here and speak Spanish and eat their food, whatever. I don't care. Like I said before: larger market, more opportunity for division of labor. Welcome.

We've heard the same arguments from Vicente Fox in defense of his government's mass-exportation of Mexico's people. Strangely, Fox only sees these people as assets if they live in the USA. If they are what you allege, the Mexican officials wouldn't be so anxious to get them out of the country.

[RKV]

Bingo!

[RKV]

Hey Viva! Anymore unsupported generalizations to make on this subject? The facts are NOT in your favor.

[dennisw]

Clueless journo shilling for amoral, unamerican, backstabbing corporate employers of illegals and the ethnic war on white American lobby.

[skeeter]

America is not an economy. America is not a market.

America is a nation.

You wanna come here? Obey our laws.

[Tauzero]

"if enforcement wasn't working, why would the employers have bothered to organize against it?"

Sanity and reason bump!

[RKV]

On top of our laws, we have some values, too. Learn, understand and support our constitution and our system of government. The way things were done in whatever country you came from may not be the way we do things here. It may be OK in Mexico for the government to license firearms - it isn't here. It may be OK in Canada to restrict freedom of speech - it isn't here. We don't allow government employees to take bribes and don't tolerate those who attempt to bribe them. Etc.

[Plutarch]

Immigration into a capitalist country is an asset, not a problem. The more people, the larger the market, the more opportunity for division of labor.

Well that settles that!!!

Here's a question, however. Let us suppose I were to scour the planet for the least desirable and assimilatible immigrants possible--- Tribes of cannibals, headhunters, imprisoned felons, French leftists, parents who named their children Osama, etc. and brought them to the U.S. illegally by the tens of millions, and deposited them disproportionately into your town and neighborhood.

Would you consider this change an "asset not a problem"?

[tickles]

First off, if they don't want to be citizens, they certainly don't have to be. And as far as reaping the economic benefits--of course! That's why almost anyone immigrates>>>>>>>

my idea of 'immigration' is going to a country that you want to become a citizen of. Or at least that's my recall from my history classes, people coming here who wanted to reap the benefits through becoming citizens.

your discription is a guest worker who should be documented and have no benefits from our governing system beyond the job he/she came here to get. In other words, no low income rent subsidies, no heating assistance, no welfare assistance, no health care assistance, etc etc, those should be his/her responcibility or his/her employers since they don't want to become citizens and contribut to our society. they should also have to return home regularly and have to apply for extending their visa/work permit from their HOME country. and so on .....

[janetgreen]

capitalist sense.

The importation of poverty, ignorance, disease and dependence doesn't make any kind of sense, let alone capitalist sense. You're out of touch with reality.

[Paulie]

"...if a criminal wants to flee a country to avoid prosecution should we allow them to enter our country? How about another - controlling diseases?"

Excellent point.

[RKV]

I have a lot of sympathy for the libertarian point of view. It has a lot of merit in many of its aspects - unfortunately open borders is not one of them.