Immigration

The problem with illegal immigration is that it’s a circular argument. Most people understand that the United States cannot sustain an unlimited number of immigrants forever. This is evidenced by the fact that the federal government itself has placed limits on immigration. It’s the only way society could be stabilized and a stable economy could be maintained.  An infinite supply of cheap labor, while reducing costs, eventually produces a pool of consumers who don’t have the wherewithal to buy the very goods that they create.

So the issue comes with who should win? American citizens or foreign nationals? Should we import a workforce, while more than 10% of working working age Americans are unemployed? It seems unreasonable to me to import labor, while having a large population center unemployed. Illegal immigration impacts America’s poor more than any other sector of our society. It is these Americans who are harmed most by illegal immigration because they are the ones competing for the lower wage and lower skill level jobs with people who are unlawfully in the United States. Does that seem fair to anyone? It sure doesn’t to me.

Rather than helping large corporations increase profits at the expense of American citizens, should we instead be controlling our borders and controlling the number of foreign nationals allowed to work in the United States? This would incentivize employers to hire Americans, as well as to preferentially punish those who seek to hire undocumented workers at the expense of American citizens. These citizens, who now not only don’t have a job opportunity,  when they do begin working, they are forced to subsidize through social benefit programs, the very people who took their job in the first place.

The liberal media’s bias and the progressive’s efforts to demonize American citizens fighting for their right to protect their homes, to protect their economy and to protect their state is unacceptable. Illegal immigration is currently bankrupting the state of Arizona. The costs for supporting illegal immigration via free healthcare, free food stamps and other social service programs far outweigh any economic contribution to the society.

Now, layer on top of that the Mexican drug cartels, which are utilizing this corridor as the vehicle to shuttle narcotics into the United States unlawfully, these are also people armed with fully automatic weapons, people that have been trained by the Mexican military. Their special forces have been bought off by the drug cartels. Our enforcement people on the other hand, go out at night with a service revolver to enforce the border of the United States faced against an army with automatic weapons. Does that look like a fair fight to you? It doesn’t to me.

To have a correct understanding, you have to look at this really by the numbers, on average, 1000 people across the southern border of the United States into the state of Arizona. Each and every day. That’s over 365,000 illegal immigrants every year.

During the 80s, we gave amnesty to roughly 2.1 million illegal aliens with the understanding that we would secure the border and the fines would be heavy. Upwards of $100,000 to people knowingly hiring illegal aliens, we all know how that worked out, 2 million got amnesty, few if any, fines were ever levied and the border is more porous than it’s ever been.   It’s time for a change.  President Trump is making that change and we need to support him.  We need to take control of our border and require all law enforcement in Arizona to fully cooperate with ICE in assisting in the removal of criminal illegal aliens in our jails and prisons.