Why We’re Getting So Many Illegal Immigrants
26th January 2012
Katherine Mangu-Ward correctly points out the legal immigration into the U.S. is a nightmare.
We got your bureaucracy, right here.
And, of course, whenever bureaucratic nightmares arise, it generates a passel of lawyers devoted to gaming the system.
It is not a pretty sight, and will need to be fixed if we ever hope to get a handle on illegal immigration.
January 26th, 2012 at 14:38
Streamlining the process won’t help. The vast majority of illegals here are low-skilled, and so wouldn’t qualify under the Exclusive Club rules: we only want the brightest and best, and Pedro/Habib/Ngao/Gupta just doesn’t rise to that level.
Gone are the halcyon days when the Captains of Industry salivated at the prospect of importing millions of grunts from overseas to build the railroads or work for slave wages in the sweat shops. The incentive of cheap labor is gone; now instead of bringing the grunts to the factory they just move the factory to where the grunts are.
Still they want to come here, because making $0.75/hr is better than the $0.25/day they could make back home, with the added bonus of not having jackboots kicking in your door in the middle of the night because you didn’t pay sufficient baksheesh to the local authorities. Can you blame them?