Most people realize that a lot of the illegal immigration debate is about jobs.
Folks in the US don't want to see their jobs being taken by undocumented workers.
Of course, right now with the economy not so great many of those who'd previously come to the US have now gone back to Mexico, where the unemployment is in some regions under 4.
5%.
But what happens when that turns the other way, what happens when Mexico's economy turns South for a while? The reason I ask is that it is happening now.
Too, Mexico City is a disaster waiting to happen, as the city is practically on a large scale Earthquake fault.
What if 10 million people outside of Mexico City all want to come to the US all at once? Do we dare turn them away? Can we afford to take them all? What if that many people come in one year because their job market tanks? What if we make a poor choice of immigration policy, which ends up inviting 10s of millions in other nations around the world at the same time? We might be a wealthy nation today, but what if? What if we make the wrong choices in our immigration reform strategies based on political correctness rather than common sense prudence.
I dare to ask, but let me explain why and some of the current events which are imperative components of a correct and wise policy.
Consider this, on November 1, 2013 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled; "Economists Cut Mexico's 2013 and 2014 Growth Estimates," by Anthony Harrup which stated "Private economists polled in October by the Bank of Mexico lowered their estimates for economic growth in Mexico this year and next, while keeping 2014 inflation expectations steady despite the approval by Congress of a number of tax increases.
The 35 analysts polled last month by the central bank see the economy expanding just 1.
2% this year, the slowest rate in the four years since Mexico began recovering from recession.
Economists also lowered their estimate for 2014 to 3.
4% from 3.
6%, less than the 3.
9% assumption included in the government's 2014 budget.
" Well, this is quite problematic if we loosen the reigns of immigration right as the economy in Mexico takes a downturn, as there will be many more flowing over the border illegally to work here in the United States.
Would this be devastating to our economy - no, we could handle it, if that were the only hardship, but it's not, you see it's one of many challenges we have right now.
And, we've made some very poor choices as we've moved closer to socialism and broken several cardinal sins when it comes to free markets.
Whereas, it would be great if we could open those flood gates and allow more immigration to the US, but we don't dare.
We can be of no value to the world if we don't remain strong.
There are economic forces in play, and had we fully recovered we might have been able to do that, but seeing as how we managed our economy and our current situation with runaway social program expenses and increased costs in entitlements, along with the problems in the rest of the world where we have allies and interests, we need to be thinking long term on this.
Please consider all this and think on it.
Folks in the US don't want to see their jobs being taken by undocumented workers.
Of course, right now with the economy not so great many of those who'd previously come to the US have now gone back to Mexico, where the unemployment is in some regions under 4.
5%.
But what happens when that turns the other way, what happens when Mexico's economy turns South for a while? The reason I ask is that it is happening now.
Too, Mexico City is a disaster waiting to happen, as the city is practically on a large scale Earthquake fault.
What if 10 million people outside of Mexico City all want to come to the US all at once? Do we dare turn them away? Can we afford to take them all? What if that many people come in one year because their job market tanks? What if we make a poor choice of immigration policy, which ends up inviting 10s of millions in other nations around the world at the same time? We might be a wealthy nation today, but what if? What if we make the wrong choices in our immigration reform strategies based on political correctness rather than common sense prudence.
I dare to ask, but let me explain why and some of the current events which are imperative components of a correct and wise policy.
Consider this, on November 1, 2013 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled; "Economists Cut Mexico's 2013 and 2014 Growth Estimates," by Anthony Harrup which stated "Private economists polled in October by the Bank of Mexico lowered their estimates for economic growth in Mexico this year and next, while keeping 2014 inflation expectations steady despite the approval by Congress of a number of tax increases.
The 35 analysts polled last month by the central bank see the economy expanding just 1.
2% this year, the slowest rate in the four years since Mexico began recovering from recession.
Economists also lowered their estimate for 2014 to 3.
4% from 3.
6%, less than the 3.
9% assumption included in the government's 2014 budget.
" Well, this is quite problematic if we loosen the reigns of immigration right as the economy in Mexico takes a downturn, as there will be many more flowing over the border illegally to work here in the United States.
Would this be devastating to our economy - no, we could handle it, if that were the only hardship, but it's not, you see it's one of many challenges we have right now.
And, we've made some very poor choices as we've moved closer to socialism and broken several cardinal sins when it comes to free markets.
Whereas, it would be great if we could open those flood gates and allow more immigration to the US, but we don't dare.
We can be of no value to the world if we don't remain strong.
There are economic forces in play, and had we fully recovered we might have been able to do that, but seeing as how we managed our economy and our current situation with runaway social program expenses and increased costs in entitlements, along with the problems in the rest of the world where we have allies and interests, we need to be thinking long term on this.
Please consider all this and think on it.
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