Illegal Aliens

In response to Seyla Benhabib's NYT article:
The Morality of Migration
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First of all, nobody is advocating for a permanent freeze in immigration. This country is comprised of immigrants (with the exception of the indigenous). However, in our young nations history, we have ever used immigrations quotas to help balance out the population and the economy. For example, there was a big quota on Chinese immigrants at the turn of the [20th?] century.

Anyway, this is a very slanted article. The author continually expresses sympathy for illegal immigrants while completely ignoring many of the major effects if has on people who are native to or migrated legally here. Regardless of how these children ended up here, the U.S. government is not obligated to provide anything to the children of illegal immigrants. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Consider the following:

1) A family of 4 comes across 10 orphans. The family lives on a tight budget. They know they can't possibly take in 10 orphans without themselves becoming indigent, so they do their best to support the orphans from afar- working with non-profits and other organizations.

2) A family of 4 comes across 10 orphans. The family lives on a tight budget. They know they can't possibly take in 10 orphans without themselves becoming indigent, but they take them in anyway. Months later the whole family is receiving welfare from the government.

The "liberal democratic society" the author refers to would choose option 2. History has proven over and over again that politicians cannot legislate the impoverished into wealth. It just doesn't happen. In fact, when this is attempted, it simply goes the other way leading to an expansion of the population living in poverty. Money cannot be pulled out of thin air, and the more money the government prints, the less valuable the American dollar becomes.

What about other problems caused by illegal immigration? To name a few:
Pollution: Many illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/American border have absolutely trashed our beautiful country. (Illegals Trash AZ Border) America is quickly becoming the laughing stock of the globe. We can protect the borders of South Korea, but somehow we can't protect our own?

Violence: Drug violence is exacerbated by illegal immigrants. A larger portion of our youngsters are getting involved in drugs. The higher the demand is for the drugs, the more violence is committed. It's relative. Also, over the last year or two there has been a series of vehicle incidents involving illegals who were drunk driving who ended up killing our own citizens.

Economics: There aren't enough jobs for Americans at this time. Why should we allow amnesty for illegal aliens? They have not paid into social security -or any social programs for that matter. How many illegals aliens are we paying for in our prison system? It's true they have worked on farms, but why not replace them with our own teenage youth and keep our currency in our country?

Of course we should not disregard the circumstances these people are living in within their home countries. After all, there is no reason to migrate unless one is living in an uncomfortable situation. As a nation, however, we should be condemning these oppressive/violent governments (Pakistan?)- not rewarding them by lining their pockets with money borrowed from China. Instead, we should have compassion from afar as there are already plenty of Americans who either cannot or will not support themselves and their families.