GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS: THE SEEDS OF OUR DEMISE

Politicians really are either the dumbest individuals around, providing a perfect example of the saying ‘cream of the crap,’ or they are the most deceitful bunch of good-for-nothings to walk our streets. Perhaps they are both.

For over a decade, the American people have screamed for our elected officials to do something to fix our illegal immigration problems, and have consistently denounced any idea about another amnesty for these law-breakers. So what does the U.S. Senate do? Discuss immigration, but they focused on amnesty plans (simply labeled ‘guest-worker programs’).

At least on paper the House appears headed in the right direction and is taking on illegal immigration first, leaving amnesty talk for a later date.

If the government would simply enforce the immigration laws on the books today, our illegal immigrant problem would begin to be controllable. I’m concerned that once all is said and done, passing more laws that go un-enforced will simply allow our problems to continue growing, and that whatever law is passed there will be no enforcement (with the exception of whatever guest-worker/amnesty part is attached and continues to allow illegals to flood our towns). This immigration debate could all be just another cruel hoax the politicians are pulling on the citizens of this country.

The Guest-Worker/Temporary Worker/Amnesty idea is not just a stupid, traitorous idea, but is one that has been tried in other countries and is a proven failure. Take a look at European attempts at temporary worker plans. The ‘guest’ workers rarely go home, no matter what President Bush claims how his plan will work. Study after study has shown that illegals (soon to be guest workers?) do drive down wages, and do take jobs Americans will do (and proof of this is in the percentage of citizens vs. illegals in various work categories; illegals are a minority of workers in all categories, which means Americans make up the rest of the workers in those categories). There are no ‘jobs Americans won’t do,’ just jobs Americans won’t do for dirt-wages.

A guest-worker program will have the adverse affect of slowing technological advancements in many of the industries where these people work. What is to motivate changes and advancements if industries can opt for short-term cheap labor, ignoring long-term consequences? It is a fact that when illegal/cheap labor is cut off, businesses look to investing in labor saving machinery and techniques. Look to our own history of slavery in America. Perpetuating slavery stifled innovation in agriculture. Once slavery was removed from the agricultural equation, advances in technology and techniques impacting agriculture started moving forward. Thanks to these advancements, we are much more productive in most agricultural areas today. Where cheap manual labor is still plentiful, technological advances are slow in coming. This scenario has been repeated throughout our history in a number of industries.

First, people want our laws enforced. Before anything else can be discussed, it is a matter of our laws being broken and the government not just failing to enforce the laws, but outright refusing to enforce the laws. Enforce the laws first, then let’s talk about legal and illegal immigration.

Second, the guest-worker debate is more about how congress can find a way to legitimize 12 to 20 million illegals to cover their failure to do their jobs. Rather than honestly deal with the law breakers in our midst, Congress appears to prefer to declare them all non-law breakers, as if that makes 20 million people go away, or magically, instantaneously assimilated into our society. It does not.

Third, whether they are called illegal aliens or guest-workers, allowing these people to stay here creates a large poverty class in our country with no real means of climbing out of that poverty. They are trapped by businesses wanting cheap labor. These people will not assimilate, which is key to succeeding in any country, and will remain in isolated communities that will continue to grow and eventually demand they get their way in a land not theirs, but they have convinced themselves is theirs. This is already being demonstrated by the huge protests illegals have held across our country over the last few weeks. Literally hundreds of thousands of these people fearlessly walk our city streets demanding ‘rights’ they have no claim to. (Which by the way, why don’t the immigration authorities show up and just round these people up while they were congregating in such large numbers in public?)

Congress needs to get realistic, and be honest about the issue of illegals and their amnesty plans. Illegals should not be given preferential treatment over the citizens of this country. A failure to aggressively address this matter will lead to the collapse of our country. Embracing any form of amnesty is cultivating the seeds of our country’s destruction. I have read numerous articles on the illegal immigration issue, and several articles actually offer suggestions that merit consideration. But is anyone in Congress listening? In the House, yes; in the Senate, it doesn’t appear as if they are.

If only our ‘leaders’ would listen before our country implodes. Any ‘guest-worker’ or ‘amnesty first’ program is a loser. Politicians need to wake up and quit demonstrating how stupid they are. Their job is to act on behalf of the citizens of this country, not the corporate interests of their financial backers or on behalf of globalistic one-worlders. And citizens need to keep telling their elected representatives that they had better represent their interests instead of the illegal rabble parading around our streets, lest they wish to get booted out of office in November.

These people are exploited pure and simple. That's the flip side of this issue. An absolute disgrace for an America in this day and age.

You're right. For Americans like Kennedy to fight for the right to subjugate others, to fight to have second class citizens is disgusting. The Mexicans exploitees aren't the only people being dehumanized by the process -- the "slave masters", the exploiters, are also being dehumanized. It's creepy banana republic stuff. A second class citizens mentality is a throwback to a shameful period of our history. Awful. And where cheap labor is exploited, innovation suffers. Moral society suffers. The country suffers. What is the GOP thinking?

Do we really need so many farm workers?

Absolutely not.

As I've stated on this thread and others, these illegals are the scum of Mexico and among the most stupid you'll find. They are qualified to pick fruit and, as you point out, it's a make-work rathole.

The collective IQ of America is being watered down to room temperature by the posturing the politicians do to this gaggle that should be shoved back across the border.

It's socialist Mexico's problem. Mexico is crossing the border from socialist to communist and is a very real enemy of the United States.

The sorry state of affairs in this nation is a testament to the disgusting American political class.

This is the only country on Earth that thinks it's not sporting to consider our own interests in choosing immigrants. Try showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing: "I've seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and ballots into my native language? Thanks!" They would laugh you out of the country. What seems not to have occurred to the "NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL" crowd is that this is a country, not a public park.

(Ann Coulter, April 13, 2006)

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