What do we see with immigration, part two
Over two years ago I published the notion that if all the 12 million illegal immigrants were rich, we wouldn't have any problem here. But since we deal with the poor, we would rather that they be sent home to die rather than live in this country.
I watched an episode of Hotel Babylon on BBC America where they dealt with illegal immigrants as predators would deal with a herd. The immigration officers act as the predator, touring the hotel looking for unlucky individuals that couldn't be hid by the hotel staff. Once they found one, they pounced quickly, taking their prize away to satiate for a moment the souls of those they served.
The 12 million people we are being focused on in this country of course are the poor of other countries. We are being shown them as invaders, as individuals that threaten the group. We send out our ICE predators who locate them, scoop them up and take them away. After the individuals are relocated across our border, we have no concern for their welfare. If they get dead after we leave them, we don't care.
Our government, though, is using their existence to beat the drum for fear. After all if poor people could sneak into our country, so could some terrorist. We need better identification for all citizens, with dossiers available to any law enforcement agent that needs it for whatever reason.
These 12 million people are for us what the Jewish and Eastern European people were to Nazi Germany. It is a lot easier to focus on people who have no power or constitutional rights because they are illegal aliens rather than focus seriously on the disintegrating middle class of the United States. Maybe we can deal with the aliens before we can fix our atrocious economy.
In a conversation with a bus driver, I discovered the depth of hatred for the poor. He said we have enough poor people of our own rather than deal with the poor of another country. But just like our government used welfare reform to flood the market with unskilled people, thus driving and keeping down the cost of labor, so are these illegal immigrants.
Cheap labor means more profit for those in control. As long as we see the alien caricatures, we don't see our economy vanishing. If we do see the dollars disappear, we can blame them for the theft. Our law enforcement officials get and deport a few of them, and our souls are sated.