This is what I think, have always thought: that any human being can live anywhere he or she wants on God’s green earth.
Seems perfectly logical.
What’s the problem?
Everyone in the world will want to move to the USA?
Are you crazy?
Do you not keep up with the news of nonstop gun violence let alone our violent pop culture seen & heard by everyone in the world? Who wants to live in a nation of more guns than people and with our current president (for another three very long and hard years) and policies that shoot the middle finger at the poor and disenfranchised? And now with a $100,000 immigrant fee?
And don’t blame President Biden for allowing an unsubstantiated figure of ten million immigrants to pour into the southern border for the past four years. Biden is the one who as VP to President Obama came up with the illegal immigrant policy that culminated in undocumented immigrants forced onto planes flying back to South and Central America practically on a daily basis. For two terms, Obama removed more illegal immigrants from the U.S. than did his predecessors combined.
I saw the “60 Minutes” report on a phone app showing all the gaps along the southern border and the nonstop mass of humanity from around the world just walking right into the USA every minute of the day and night. That during the Biden administration.
That was wrong, and border agents were there doing their job. The federal government should have helped the landowners maintain their property on the border. For decades nothing was ever done because: BUSINESSES NEED CHEAP LABOR. And in this country, business is the name of the game. Everybody knows this, and American families benefited from the arrangement with low prices for food and stuff.
Not anymore.
For as long as I can remember, the way the U.S. handled illegal immigration was by arresting undocumented immigrants and bringing them before an immigration judge, but first forcing the alleged illegal immigrant to stay removed from society and placed in a sort of jail: adults, children, whoever. Then after a year or so, the jailed immigrant would get to plea in immigration court. This was a federal process, and it took years.
More importantly and to the heart of the illegal immigration issue, prior to Trump II the U.S. followed one international rule: human rights. Yes, the U.S. government was world renowned for bestowing upon all humans, U.S. citizen or not, certain inalienable rights.
Not anymore.
How green was my country
Now ICE is scaring major U.S. cities with unnecessary violent raids that are reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Undocumented immigrants are picked up, roughed up, and thrown into vans and driven away—with their families kept in the dark as to their whereabouts. Supposedly alleged violent gang members are sent overseas to God-knows where. And we’re just now learning that these people, not all gang members, were tortured in these prisons … because as illegal immigrants in the U.S., they have no rights. But even legal immigrants are being rounded up and dumped elsewhere. Some of the forcibly removed undocumented immigrants have lived and worked in this country for 20 years.
Americans have remained very naïve when it comes to business and the way it’s conducted in this country. Illegal immigration has been a ‘problem issue’ for decades with very little done to fix it. In the 1990s, making all employees prove their citizenship or legal immigration status was required to hold any job in the U.S. What happened? That process should have done away with the illegal immigration pipeline. But it didn’t. Remember the app and humanity trekking into our country.
The business of America is business, a former early 20th century president once mused. American business wants government out of their business. Everyone, all of us, were to look the other way when it came to illegal immigrants as long as they were working. We knew cheap labor is the way of life for our food. We knew immigrants, especially those who just wanted a job and to not live in fear as they did in their previous narco states, accept low wages—and Americans would never work for low wages.
Americans have never liked nor accepted their tax dollars paying for the healthcare and welfare of the poor, more so for those living in this country illegally.
Put the blame where this American mess belongs: on business.
Fixing the ‘immigration problem’ that has perplexed mostly our nation’s millionaire leaders and legislators for generations includes temporary work visas – because our crops have to be picked … by hand. Produce doesn’t last but a few days. And that’s just one of the cheap labor for necessary work. For now the U.S. is treating undocumented immigrants like Germany treated the Jews during the Holocaust: making it very uncomfortable to stay and live in this country. Surely they got the message. The only ones who haven’t are American citizens who think food just appears on the table and restaurants along with all the other stuff in the stores.
In all the pretend furor and debate, Americans have forgotten our own ancestry which is more than likely from abroad than right here. We have been a nation of immigrants. We used to be proud of that, our collective history. People who move here legal or not are not subhuman. They want what America had held dear, our norms in life, namely freedom to pursue our own personal happiness. They have proven to be willing to do the dirty work Americans will not do and accept wages Americans will not accept all while living in the harshest neighborhoods while trying to learn another language as soon as humanly possible. For the time being, Americans have chosen to hurt rather than to help immigrants who are here illegally for simple and complex reasons. It’s too bad … for everyone. Especially business. You better believe it.