... it only has two questions.
- Are you here illegally?
- Are you fluent in English?
If your answer is Yes to 1 and No to 2, congratulations, you've won a free trip to the border!
That is not to say that if your answer to 2 is Yes you get to stay, but in the first round of deportations, this is a simple and valuable way to do what the government is morally bound to do - make the lives of American citizens better.
Here is the Great Schools link for Forest Park High School in Baltimore. It is majority black and majority illiterate. Its graduates can barely speak English. There is no chance they know any Spanish. If they want to chart a productive and happy life, they are going to need entry-level, no-skill opportunities in the labor market. Two primary career paths are construction and housekeeping. If those workforces communicate in Spanish, our black American young adults are doomed.
Those job sites will speak Spanish so long as the population they draw from speaks Spanish. The illegals come in with a wage advantage for employers, so they will dominate those workforces so long as they're here in this country.
The government has a moral duty to protect and care for American citizens. It has no duty to citizens of Honduras, Congo or Syria.
America and Americans first, baby.
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It would probably be easier to swap the questions around - if someone is not speaking English (or not otherwise trying to assimilate into the culture), then it is noticeable, and would give one cause to ask whether they are in the country illegally. And sure, if the police have cause to think someone is here illegally, and upon checking find that they are in fact an illegal immigrant, then yes, they should deport them.
ReplyDeleteThe thing I am concerned about, and that most other people around here are concerned about, is the collateral damage if the police get too enthusiastic. If the police can go up to anyone they like, demand to see their papers, and then arrest them if they find their paperwork unsatisfactory, how long will it be before they start doing it to people who *are* legal residents or citizens, but don't happen to have their papers on them at the time? How long before you can be fined or imprisoned for being caught out in public without your papers, even if you are here perfectly legally?
I know and work with quite a number of people who are not US citizens (mostly graduate students), but they are all here perfectly legally, and they all speak English and are doing their best to fit in. They are very worried about what the government might do to them, though. Whenever there is a crackdown against illegal immigrants, the legal immigrants always end up getting harassed more, because the authorities already have their contact information and know how to find them.
If you're looking for a painless way out of this situation, save your energy, because you're not going to find one. We just endured a 4-year invasion several times larger than Operation Barbarossa. The effects on the country are massive. We let them in with a firehouse, we're not going to get them out with a drinking straw.
ReplyDeleteYep, for a time some people will have to carry proof of legal residency around with them. Yep. they might get pulled over and questioned. We didn't do that to them, the faceless cabal in the Biden Administration did.
Jamal and Taniqua in West Baltimore are our fellow citizens. They count more than foreigners. They have to or we don't have a country at all, not one citizens will respect. See: Two-tier policing in England.
I don't think anyone is dancing jigs at the thought of our neighbors and friends having to show papers or even being deported, but it's going to be necessary for a time. In fact, it's been necessary for quite some time.
No, the American labor force is not currently set up to take up the slack if illegals are deported. However, the hysteresis effect will happen and the culture will adapt. There will be a lot of pain for a lot of people, but that's to be expected after a massive invasion like we experienced.