I HAVE AN ACQUAINTANCE WHO IS AS FAR LEFT as I am to the right.
Somehow we manage to disagree civilly.
Our advantage is that we argue (debate) via email, so neither interrupts the other when that person has the floor.
We both are “senior citizens.”
WE’VE HAD A LENGTHY EXCHANGE regarding the illegal immigrants. (Illegal immigration, I discovered, is a misdemeanor with a sentence of up to two years,)
We both agree that separating the parents and children is a mistake. My correspondent seems to think almost everything that the Trump administration does is wrong, wrong, wrong.
While we usually are on opposite sides of the political fence as we debate this or that, I think we both learn a little from the other’s perspective; things we would not have considered discussing whatever subject with a like-minded person.
According to my correspondent, some of the illegals are escaping from environments where their lives are threatened.
Since I don’t keep a close watch on Central America, I couldn’t argue the point.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if the illegals simply are trying to find a safe haven, then the United States should be a “last hope.”
According to WorldOMeters.info 1,
- There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics).
Britannica2 breaks down the countries by North and Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and Dependencies, all adding up to more than 33 countries. WorldOMeter’s count does not include the dependencies.
In addition to the countries shown on the map, below, Spanish also is the language of the Dominican Republic that shares an island with Creole-speaking Haiti.
Instead of running north through Mexico (from Guatemala or Nicaragua, where, my corespondent informs, peoples lives are threatened by terrorists, they should escape to the south to Panama (not shown on the map) and beyond to South America.
Heading south means remaining in countries that have Spanish as the national language, a language the refugees already know.
It appears from the map that going though Mexico – where ex-president Barack Obama sent US$75. million worth of assistance to Mexico in the form of U.S. training and equipment in a joint effort to help secure Mexico’s southern borders and deal with issues of drug trafficking and immigration3 – is longer and more difficult that heading south.
Since many of the illegals and more waiting at the U.S.-Mexican border are from Guatemala and Nicaragua, Obama’s larges with the U.S. taxpayers’ dollars was for naught.
Coming to the U.S. makes the illegals criminals.
It makes anyone who aids them criminals.
It makes anyone who employs the criminals – and they should be prosecuted for their crime.
It makes the illegals integration into America communities difficult since they lack the language.
It puts an additional burden on the U.S. taxpayer who must now feed, clothe, and educate the illegals and provide them with medical care that many American citizens cannot afford (Obama care or otherwise).
It also pushes people legally waiting for entry into the U.S. farther from their goal since the illegals count against the immigration quotas for their country of origin.
The American taxpayer, and the illegal aliens, would be better off funding the illegals’ transport south to Panama and beyond. South America has room (see map) to absorb the people clogging the U.S.-Mexico border.
The illegals congregate in the warmer climates they had in their countries of origin. For the U.S., that means the border and Gulf states. They cannot be relocated to northern climes due to a SCOTUS ruling preventing Cuban’s from being relocated from Florida to the northern states – “too cold for them” the Supremes decided. (They may relocate anywhere in the U.S., but they cannot be forced to relocate. American Indians were a different matter.)
The truth is that the illegals are expecting that yet another U.S. president will put them on a “fast track” to legal residence and citizenship. (Presidents of both parties have committed this affront to the law.)
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/yd2ap3o6
2. http://tinyurl.com/y7kxkjop
3. http://tinyurl.com/yb9d3uej
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