Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Immigration
Thank God for the border patrol. Otherwise, who'd stop those armies of dirty Mexicans from pouring across the border to take your job, your house, and your wife, wrecking the country, and just generally fucking up the system?
If you agreed with the above statement in any way, you don't deserve to have a job or a house or a wife. The thing is, those "illegal aliens" are people too, just like you. Actually, since you're not a person at all but a racist bigot, what I meant to say is that unlike you, illegal immigrants are people, and deserve a chance at a better life.
You take pride in calling America the "land of opportunity," but if anyone actually comes looking for opportunity here you're the first one to stick a shotgun in their face. "Land of opportunity" should mean opportunity for everyone, not just the people who already live here. If someone wants to improve their life by coming to America, who the hell are you to deny them that opportunity? What makes you more deserving of a decent life than someone born in Mexico? It may be that many immigrants won't be any better off here than they were where they came from, but they still deserve a chance.
If we're going to call America the "land of opportunity" without being hypocrites of the worst kind, we need to rewrite our immigration laws. The only thing that makes illegal immigrants illegal is the unfair laws that were put in place in a more unenlightened time. The laws are pointless anyway, since anyone who is really determined to get into the country will, whether it's legal or not.
You're worried about your job. But what you fail to understand is that if your job is in danger at all, which is unlikely, the threat is not poor immigrants slipping across the border but corporate outsourcing. If you lose your job, it won't be a poor Mexican immigrant who is responsible. It will be your own employer, or more likely your own gross incompetence.
Why shouldn't anyone who wants to live in America be allowed to? The immigrants who came here from all over the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made the country a vibrant, cosmopolitan place, and one unique in world history. Without a fresh stream of immigrants, we're left just stagnating in the homogenous cesspool we've created for ourselves.
Maybe an open-door immigration policy can't work. Maybe I'm being overly idealistic. But the truth is, this fucked-up country desperately needs something, and that might just be it.
If you agreed with the above statement in any way, you don't deserve to have a job or a house or a wife. The thing is, those "illegal aliens" are people too, just like you. Actually, since you're not a person at all but a racist bigot, what I meant to say is that unlike you, illegal immigrants are people, and deserve a chance at a better life.
You take pride in calling America the "land of opportunity," but if anyone actually comes looking for opportunity here you're the first one to stick a shotgun in their face. "Land of opportunity" should mean opportunity for everyone, not just the people who already live here. If someone wants to improve their life by coming to America, who the hell are you to deny them that opportunity? What makes you more deserving of a decent life than someone born in Mexico? It may be that many immigrants won't be any better off here than they were where they came from, but they still deserve a chance.
If we're going to call America the "land of opportunity" without being hypocrites of the worst kind, we need to rewrite our immigration laws. The only thing that makes illegal immigrants illegal is the unfair laws that were put in place in a more unenlightened time. The laws are pointless anyway, since anyone who is really determined to get into the country will, whether it's legal or not.
You're worried about your job. But what you fail to understand is that if your job is in danger at all, which is unlikely, the threat is not poor immigrants slipping across the border but corporate outsourcing. If you lose your job, it won't be a poor Mexican immigrant who is responsible. It will be your own employer, or more likely your own gross incompetence.
Why shouldn't anyone who wants to live in America be allowed to? The immigrants who came here from all over the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made the country a vibrant, cosmopolitan place, and one unique in world history. Without a fresh stream of immigrants, we're left just stagnating in the homogenous cesspool we've created for ourselves.
Maybe an open-door immigration policy can't work. Maybe I'm being overly idealistic. But the truth is, this fucked-up country desperately needs something, and that might just be it.
# posted by Ben @ 3:30 PM 
