Media outlets have whipped immigration issues into a frenzy for their mesmerized listeners, but for decades it has always been a problem left uncorrected. The INS Act of 1965, for example, championed by womanizing drunkard Ted Kennedy, significantly worsened immigration trends and social integration by allowing Asians and Hispanics to overwhelm the overall immigration statistics. (The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster)
More important than racial trends, however, is the biggest statistic that allowing immense numbers of people into an already overpopulated America doesn't make good sense. To make matters worse, the 1965 Act overlooked the loophole exempting family members of U.S. citizens from immigration limits. One person quickly became several with this exemption, grossly inflating the numbers of some immigrating cultures.
Overpopulation is what major news media (where most people form their beliefs) and the government refuse to acknowledge as a pressing problem. Negative Population Growth has a sensible outlook on the overpopulation issue, advocating a "smaller and truly sustainable population through smaller families and reduced immigration levels." Not only is overpopulation a strain on natural resources, it is detrimental to the quality of human life, especially in large families where the parents cannot possibly care properly for their many children.
Next to address concerns the true cause of the immigration problem, which is that immigrants left their home country generally because life there was nasty, brutish, short, or uneconomical. Therefore, efforts should be directed at the immigrant's country of origin to fix what would cause such a great exodus, mainly through non-monetary political and socio-economic assistance. People should be allowed the dignified choice of living freely, happily, and productively in their own country.
President Vicente Fox of Mexico is probably one of the worst examples today of a leader looking out for his people when he does little to improve their lives in Mexico. Despicable too are the IMF and World Bank who step in to manage poor defenseless countries affairs by ruining them according to Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at World Bank. When the light fails in a world of darkness you would think the United Nations sporting slogans of "We, the peoples," and "It's your world" would step in to improve our lives.
They should, but spin your globe to Africa to see what a dismal failure the world's concern for others has wreaked. The old adage, modified somewhat, "Help yourself before ruining others," should be a principle countries are more familiar with. The sad truth is that countries frequently have no idea how to help each other or themselves, except in times of disaster where the universal knee jerk reaction is, "Give food! Give money!" which often isn't real help in the end, just another cause for crippling dependency.
Countries should be helpful and inviting to other countries, just as neighbors should be neighborly. But let's help ourselves first by legislating a proper U.S. immigration policy with the following general guidelines:
- The overall immigration level should be reduced drastically and a negative population growth policy should be developed.
- Immigration law should be changed back to national origin quota based immigration, allowing people from all countries an opportunity to live here, and family exemptions for U.S. citizens should be taken into account when calculating immigration levels.
- The cultural behaviors of the immigrant should be assessed such as his propensity for violence, assimilation characteristics into American society, etc.
- The quality of the immigrant should be reviewed, such as their belief or value system, willingness to work, and health status.
That covers the law part. But what happens if hordes of people ignore our immigration laws and cross over into the U.S. illegally? Well, nothing is happening currently because there are no consequences for doing so. In fact, illegals are rewarded with free hospital care, employers not verifying citizenship, governments not checking on employers, and police specifically required not to verify citizenship. That needs to all be reversed.
For our immediate border security to prevent the millions of afternoon and evening strollers from simply walking in illegally, a border fence sounds like a good idea, until you realize that Washington bureaucrats are building it at taxpayer's expense. It will inevitable cost too much, and corruption and overcharging will be rampant. The fence design itself will be lacking in some way, perhaps that it didn't extend the whole border length, but certainly that it didn't extend up to the heavens to block Mexico's air pollution. You can thank the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement for the heavy industry congregating and polluting along the U.S. Mexican border.
However the fence is strung up, it merely blocks illegal Mexicans from reaping the many rewards of coming to America. Mexico is therefore like a prison where its many inmates are constantly seeking new ways to escape over the fence, like pole vaulting or hot-air ballooning, into America to be rewarded. And rewarded they will be with the latest U.S. legislation which does not address overpopulation, does not mention the emigration problems of Mexico, gives amnesty to illegals in exchange for $2000, and rewards law-breaking employers for hiring illegals by exempting them from punishment.
That's what the finest minds of our legislative halls have come up with on so pressing and urgent a matter as immigration reform. Imagine how other important matters are handled by America's so called leadership?