I think if we are going to manipulate the legal and economic climate of the entire world it is therefore immoral for us to consider any human being, not a citizen of the United States.
Remember: “No Taxation Without Representation”
I don’t think there is a problem with illegal immigration, they are going where people are willing to hire them. A Mexican has as much right to work as an American. Americans are the beneficiaries of systemic inequalities hands down, and I am tired of this farsical notion that Mexicans are somehow hurting our poor fragile society, when Mexican labor is as much a part of this country as anything else. Mexico has been there for all of American history, and people have been crossing that border the entire time.
And yes our government condones illegal workers in this country, as it should. The thing we should be focusing on is improving Mexico’s economy so that they don’t HAVE to jump the border, and perhaps even improving it so much that Americans will go to Mexico looking for jobs.
This is a country built by immigrants remember?
Chipping people is a waste of resources, something we don’t need to do, something that is unnecessarily expensive. It’s not even desirable, let alone practical. The issue of morality doesn’t need to figure into the equation, but if it did, it’s also immoral, and last but not least, it’s UnAmerican.
Erek
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
-New Colossus by Emma Lazarus