Is Illegal Immigration Moral? (There is more to the debate than costs and benefits)

National Review ^ | 11/26/2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[Yaelle]

Mr. Hanson, you forgot one. If you are illegal, you do not have the rights the legal workers have. You can be used as slaves, and often are, by the coyotes needing more money from you for bringing you to this country. So you are working as an indentured servant, enduring harsh working conditions, with no law to protect you as you are outside of the law. Many females are brought here ostensibly to become waitresses, but when they arrive, they find they are to be whores for the illegal male field workers, brought from agricultural shack to shack, held against their will until they have “paid back” their benevolent coyotes who brought them here.

To get this cheap labor and quick Democrat voting bloc, we get closer to slavery than we have been since the Civil War.

It’s wholly immoral.

[Yaelle]

Mexico outsources its poverty. Every other country in the world has to fight poverty within its borders, find its own solution, or die trying. But Mexico sends its poor across the border, and then profits from the money that re-enters the country from the workers in El Norte.

It would be like having your poor uncle who lives with you going to your next door neighbor’s house for each meal. Not only do you not have to feed him, but he often brings back a basket of their dinner rolls, or a few slices of pie to share with you at home. Hey! If the neighbors are that stupid, why not keep doing it? Send Auntie over for meals, too, and maybe we’ll get a whole roast chicken sometimes!

[Yaelle]

Suddenly we cannot expect poor Mexicans to abide by the same laws Americans abide by! It’s a condescending thing.

It IS. It's a patronizing, racist, low-expectations kind of immorality. We can't expect them to learn English. We can't expect them to wait in line to immigrate. We can't expect them to use toilet paper properly or teach their children to be respectful in public. What? Are they not HUMAN like the rest of us? Their brains are the same as anyone else's.

It would be much more moral to expect them to obey laws, be polite, learn the language, and wait their turn in line to immigrate with all the other poor of the world.