RSSAnti-illegal immigration groups confront upcoming presidential realities
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | June 25, 2008 |
Both John McCain and Barack Obama hold positions on immigration that are abhorrent to anti-immigration groups, writes The Times’ Nicole Gaouette from Washington.
“Although heavily supported and highly organized, those who oppose illegal immigration suddenly find themselves without a champion,” she writes.
Obama and McCain are seen as generally indistinguishable on the issue. McCain, though toughening his stance recently, has backed proposals providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Obama favors a similar mix of enforcement and legalization.
The staff of the Immigration Reform Law Institute has been working since 2002 to aid state legislators concerned about illegal immigration. Only this month, reports the Associated Press, the group filed a lawsuit against a property company in Plainfield, N.J.
The lawsuit accuses the company, Connolly Properties, of allowing so many undocumented tenants to live in its buildings that it amounted to unlawful harboring and should be considered a criminal enterprise that encouraged illegal immigration.
Meanwhile, the Christian Science Monitor says this morning that trends in illegal immigration, reduced by tighter border controls and raids on meatpacking plants and other establishments that employ high numbers of illegal immigrants, could be good for jobs in the United States.
If current moves to restrain illegal immigration trim that growth by 100,000 to 200,000 immigrants, it should have some effect on the nation’s labor supply, notes University of Chicago economist Jeffrey Grogger. He’s coauthor of a paper calculating that a 10 percent increase in the supply of a particular skill group caused by higher immigration prompted a reduction in the wages of similarly low-skilled black men by 4 percent between 1960 and 2000, lowered their employment rate by a huge 3.5 percentage points, and increased their incarceration rate by almost a full percentage point.
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‘Both John McCain and Barack Obama hold positions on immigration that are abhorrent to anti-immigration groups’…
Like any problem that’s not dealt with, the problem tends to increase with time.
So the next president is going to have to deal with a problem that’s been many years in the making. And the problem is not easily solvable.
Many illegal immigrants have now spent many years building lives in the US - to ignore this is inhuman, and I would argue - un-American, and the effects will be devastating to many decent people who are in the US to build a better life through hard work.
Next question - the cost of implementing stronger immigration policy is going to be very high; and given the limited success of a similarly structured war on drugs is likely to be largely unsuccessful.
I would suggest that stopping illegal immigration is going to cost US taxpayers a huge amount more than they think and given the current US balance of payments will involve going cap-in-hand to the Chinese government to borrow the money to implement it.
Moral of the story: be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Interesting lot of psychobabble from you. Kicking out people that have violated our immigration laws is “un-American”? Laughable on the face of it!
What is “un-American” is allowing criminals to not have to pay for their crimes. What is “un-American” is not holding people to account. And what is highly “un-American” is not abiding by our Constitution which clearly states: “The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.”
That is what is “un-American”.