Hard Ball Attitude
Category: I’m reading a book entitled Edge of Battle by Dale Brown, which is a fictional novel about illegal immigration. In the book, terriorists start using the Mexican border to cross into the U.S. and do harm. The fictional president enacts an offensive and upsets a lot of people who think he is militarizing the border and acting like a bigot, xenophobe, and racist. I’m only on page 90 of 300 or 400, but it has already inspired me to rethinking my opinions on illegal immigration.
Last time I posted anything on the topic, my stance was rather wishy-washy, however no I’m swaying more toward the idea that: illegal immigrants are criminals. I don’t really think it matters why you want to come into the country, doing so at an undesignated border crossing is still illegal and that makes you a trespasser, at the least, and a criminal, at the most. Its not that I want to prevent Mexicans the opportunity to come to the U.S., they just need to do it legally and the U.S. administration has a duty to improve the legal immigration procedures such that legal migration is a viable option.
Also I’m so sick of the excuse that: illegals will do jobs Americans won’t. If you mean they will subject themselves to near slave labor and not complain because they are afraid of deportation, then yes Americans won’t do slave labor. However, Americans would willing do the job tasks themselves, if they were treated humanely and paid a living wage to do so! The employers of illegals need to be procesuted more so then the illegal immigrants themselves. There would not be illegal immigration if there were no jobs.
I’m sure y’all have different opinions and I’d like to hear them!