Forum Post: The Issue of Illegal Immigration
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 12, 2011, 12:04 a.m. EST by CanEd
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from Edmonton, AB
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You'll hear many in this forum whining about illegal immigration and about how evil, subhuman Mexican immigrants come to America to steal the jobs of honest, hard working Americans. (What jobs?)
But really, this reveals nothing more than the cruelty and ignorance of your average person. Why do Mexicans come to America? The answer is obvious. Mexico is a terrible shithole run by drug cartels where the corrupt get rich and ordinary people get dismembered and left in the streets.
And why is Mexico this way? I won't deceive you by claiming that Mexico was ever a very good place to live, but the War on Drugs that America pushed on the rest of the world is to blame for most of it. If you make drugs illegal, all you get is vicious criminal gangs trading in drugs.\
So this whole illegal immigrant business? Your fault.
^ 19 years ago I came to the US from Mexico. Legal immigrant then citizen. All I got to say is Fast and Furious is just a symptom and American government/corporation (the corporment?) is using Mexico to keep it run by drug cartels. Because Mother of God, if there are illegal guns coming into America, then they will be taking Americans' guns. all of them. Fast and Furious getting exposed made them slow down a little, but they are gonna regroup and come again. America I believe is the last strong nation and we can only be free if we can hold onto our last resort.
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government” – Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
As the grandchild of two immigrants, I can tell you something about immigrants from south of the border. Only a small percentage of them are from Mexico. They just seem to all be from Mexico because they have to go through Mexico. Many are from other failing countries including Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Nicaragua, Panama, and other countries who have no opportunities. The reason these countries have no opportunities is the same reason many countries in Africa have no opportunities. Colonization by the Europeans, which leaves most new counties, unable to develop into functional nations.
Drugs are also illegal in Mexico.
However, Mexico has one of the most corrupt governments and government bureaucracies on earth.
Bingo.
I think you mean our governments' fault, but other than that I agree completely. Our government makes more profit keeping the War on Drugs going than they would if they legalized. That's part of the problem, it's more of the same: profit instead of doing what's right for the people.
The "War on Drugs" is a major factor --- though we should bear in mind that even if we cannot line up the support to end prohibition, we could still hurt the cartels simply by transferring enforcement resources from the supply side to the demand side - i.e. ignore people who grow a few plants rather than those who buy small amounts of drugs from gangs, trade down in reverse stings rather than trading up to manufacturers, repeal laws against "look alike substances" that facilitate anonymous drive-through drug supermarkets in ghetto neighborhoods. We need to look at drug policy and realize that it is carefully designed to bolster wholesale prices to the highest possible level, so that any perturbation of the system, no matter what it is, will hurt the cartels' bottom line.
But there is more to it than that - the EZLN tried to persuade Americans out of policies that bolstered illegal immigration, like
Had the U.S. been willing to listen to the EZLN, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of so-called "nacos" from Mexico's indigenous population would not have been pushed out into the labor market in their cities, in turn displacing other workers who came here.
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Well, I have no say in the matter.
This coming from a Canadian. HA HA HA HA HA HA
We grow our own BTW.
Clearly not all of you do or the Mexican cartels wouldn't be selling so much to America. It's good that you do, just try not to get caught.