Illegal Aliens - Or something like that.

Right now there's this big deal in the press about Arizona passing a law making it illegal to be an illegal. Hummm. There is a federal law that does the same thing, it's just not enforced except by the US Border Patrol. (Hats off to those guys.)

I read where the Illegal aliens are pulling out of Arizona in droves. That is the idea after all, isn't it?  This is going to open up an enormous amount of jobs for unemployed Americans. 

Out of work? head to Arizona. Plenty of jobs there. Let's see... Skilled construction worker. $5.00 per hour. Field Laborer, $1.50 per hour. Yard maintenance, $20.00 per day. And you realize of course, that work days are 12 hours, don't you? Breaks? what breaks. You get paid to work, not take breaks.

Payday. You get payed at 6:00 pm. "La Migra", The Border Patrol shows up at 5:30. and you get to go back to Mexico, no matter where you come from.  Now that is going to be a problem. How are the people who hire illegals going to figure out how to extract work from people, and not have to pay them?

No problem. The American workers will just unionize.  Oops... That's why people hire illegals in the first place. No Union!  'Course it does keep the prices of the products low, 

And what about the illegals who are pouring across the border from Canada?  Oh, that's OK. They're white.

It's time we take a realistic view of the illegal alien problem.

Why do people come to the USA to work? Because there are jobs, and there are people in neighboring countries who are really, really poor. You haven't seen poor until you go to Mexico, and that is a rich country by the standards of other Central American nations.

You have heard about people living in cardboard shacks?  Those are the well off. Cardboard is hard to find. And besides, how can you afford cardboard whey you have six babies to feed?

Many of our immigration problems are being solved as I write this. American companies are moving across the border to Mexico and other Central American countries, and providing much needed jobs.  Automobile manufacturing, Clothing, Electronics, Consumer goods, Diesel engines, and too many more to mention.

And why not? They can get people to manufacture good quality products, for .80 cents an hour American. Approximately  9.60 Pesos an hour. That's damn good money in Mexico.

I read about a lot of violent crimes being committed by illegal aliens. I lived in southern Arizona for many years. I can tell you that for the most part, that is bovine scatology. Yes, there is some theft. People have to eat while they're traveling through the desert with no money, no knowledge of the language, or customs. The violent crimes that I saw were committed by legal aliens, and American Citizens. Not by people who are in hiding, fearing for their very lives.Yes, from time to time somebody gets a little too much celebratory cervesa on payday, and the testosterone overflows, but that's pretty much the lot.

The problem, as I see it, is primarily racism. We have been thought since infancy that "We're better than them." I wonder how many white people who are in this country illegally get asked for their papers? What would happen if we put up a 20 foot tall steel fence across the US border with Canada?

What we need to do, is take a good look at what is causing the problem.  First, why are there jobs being filled by illegal aliens. Answer: because most Americans refuse to do those jobs. Second, why is the economy so poor in Mexico that their people go to such extreme risks to come here to work and send money back to feed their families? Answer: because we do not let them prosper. We wand them poor so that we can exploit them. One thing Mexico could do, is to not allow the Peso to be floated in international trading.  Every time it goes up to a sustainable amount, the trading in Pesos causes the exchange rate to plummet. If you want an awakening, read the international exchange rates in the stock market reports every day.

Is there an answer? Yes, but it is as complicated as the problem. But we will never solve it with hate.