My friend Constantino Diaz-Duran, now enrolled at Columbia University, has a smart and insightful essay in the Columbia Daily Spectator, “Message from an Immigrant: Please Don’t Help Us, You Missed the Point.”
My friend Constantino Diaz-Duran, now enrolled at Columbia University, has a smart and insightful essay in the Columbia Daily Spectator, “Message from an Immigrant: Please Don’t Help Us, You Missed the Point.”
What an amazingly well written paper! It reminds me of some reactions during the riots in Paris last year. NV
There are always two sides to a coin. Although the article’s author highlighted the good on one side, he failed to discuss the not so good on the other.
This is not surprising coming from well to do open border advocates.
Immigration is not the problem, it’s illegal immigration that is the problem. I hear whines and complaints about the need for immigration reform. However, I do not hear a proposed policy that will benefit the law-abiding taxpaying citizen as well as the newly welcomed legal immigrant.
Immigration without assimilation leads to ghettoization. Immigrant advocates do not discuss the negatives of unrestricted immigration. The US does not need anymore ghettos.
However, this is what you can find in densely populated areas that are saturated with immigrants, especially Hispanic, who do not assimilate. The author of this article is not the typical Hispanic immigrant. Most objection will be at immigrants that do not assimilate.
The restricted immigration crowd have an issue with immigration legal or illegal when they see the ghettoization of their community. Who wouldn’t. Why would Americans want their city or town to look like El Paso on one side and Juarez on the other. Free-marketers do not proposed solutions to to the lost value in property, overcrowded schools, and social disturbances such as MS 13 and other immigrant gangs that come with unrestricted immigration. The US have enough homegrown social problems, it does not need to import anymore.
Most Americans will welcome any immigrant that plays by the rules. If the rules need to be change, then put a referendum on the ballot and let the people vote. More than likely most Americans will vote for a more humane immigration policy. Anti-immigrationists have freedom of speech. As long as they don’t break the law their opinion can be voiced. Its up to pro-immigration advocates to come up with a more convincing argument. Americans are fair.