"Who would clean the mayor's house? Who'd do the police chief's gardening. Who'd bus the District Attorney's table at the country club?
Legal residents authorized to work in the USA."
Oh, silly boy...you're confused. Legal residents want to be paid a decent wage for those jobs. If you hired legal residents, why, the dues at the country club would go up, the Mayor's house would be full of dust bunnies, and huge weeds would fill the police chief's yard.
And never mind finding a nanny for their children these days. Do you have any idea what legal resident nannies cost? Maria does such a good job...she's even teaching them Spanish. And, since she and Jesus live in the pool house, the Mayor can deduct rent from their pay and guarantee that they're always available.
Maria doesn't even mind doing the cleaning and laundry, and the Mayor's getting Jesus a driver's license (he knows a guy down at the DMV) so Jesus can be his driver when he's not doing the gardening or other maintenance.
Of course, The Mayor doesn't "know" that Maria and Jesus are not legal immigrants. How would he? He never asked, because his attorney (who, by the way, is also the city attorney) told him not to ask.
The problem, freedumb, is not nuns. It's really not.
Oh, silly boy...you're confused. Legal residents want to be paid a decent wage for those jobs. If you hired legal residents, why, the dues at the country club would go up.... (etc. etc. etc.) Fine. Let the market decide. The LEGAL market.
This is one of the HUGE downsides of illegals -- artifically supressing wages.
We already know that the diffrerence between legal weged lettuce pickers and illegals is a nickel a head. Compared to the aggregate drain on the economy, Illegal aliens are a NET MINUS to the tune of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year.
Better in so many ways to pay it all up front in wages. Anyone who can't see this is blind, deaf and stupid.
As long as those Nuns help people stay here, they are part of the problem. And they are resonsible for the deaths of people who died en route past closed hospitals.
You have a lot of good points, and yes immigration needs to be addressed by the govt. However, there is a theory in L.E. called, I believe, the "broken window theory". The unfixed broken window signifies the beginning of the end of that neighborhood. It attracts more of the same, and as the destitution spreads, more problems are attracted to the area, etc. In other words, all aspects of the problem must be addressed.