I ask because it's hard to be hateful towards groups of people you know an individual of.
Now mind you, I realize our current situation vis a vis illegal immigrants from Latin America can't go on forever; our infrastructure and economy can't support all the poor of that region.
Still, it's no solution for Americans to say, "This is our country, go starve in yours." Any American with kids knows that if the tables were turned, we, too, would come here, illegally, if necessary, if that's what our kids needed. If we start at that point of common humanity and humility, we're on track to a workable solution. Clearly, they can't all come. Clearly, it's our right to make the rules, and to expect courtesy from those who do emigrate.
But we also need to assist Latin societies in developing the infrastructure that could allow a middle class to form there. Over a generation, that could happen, and when it does, our problem will fade. But we have to want to do the work.
2006-07-12
13:18:52
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