Illegal immigration has become so deeply embedded for so long within contemporary power politics, demography, and cultural change, so charged with accusations of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, that we have forgotten its intrinsic contradictions.
Illegal immigration is defended as a gift to the United States, as if without millions of illegal arrivals, America would ossify.
Aside from the fact that the labor participation rate of America is about 62 percent of the available work force, and millions have given up on seeking jobs, when the proponents of illegal immigration south of the border are asked politely to withdraw their supposed beneficence and generosity, they react with furor and slander rather than with gratitude and relief.
Identity theft - the great unspoken twin of illegal immigration - is not just a minor infraction, as I can attest from having my name and checking-account number stolen by an illegal alien.
Taboo are suggestions that illegal immigration could be a prime reason that California now has the highest basket of income, sales, and gas taxes in the nation; the highest number of welfare recipients, with a fifth of the state living below the poverty level; and now a fourth of all hospital admittances found to be suffering from diabetes or prediabetes; or that national rankings of infrastructure quality place the state nearly last in the country.
Without illegal immigration at current levels, the powers of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage would turn most immigrants into Americans within two to three generations, as in the past.
Perhaps the pile of used hypodermic needles dumped by my barn were left by accident? Today I pick up sacks of wet garbage with the owner's name and address on several bills: Does one redeliver back to the dumper, and if so, armed or not? Or does one find it not cost-effective to do so? These are the small, mostly trite decisions that a person at the nexus of illegal immigration makes every day.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/illegal-immigration-ideology-orwellian-virtue-signaling/
Illegal immigration is defended as a gift to the United States, as if without millions of illegal arrivals, America would ossify.
Aside from the fact that the labor participation rate of America is about 62 percent of the available work force, and millions have given up on seeking jobs, when the proponents of illegal immigration south of the border are asked politely to withdraw their supposed beneficence and generosity, they react with furor and slander rather than with gratitude and relief.
Identity theft - the great unspoken twin of illegal immigration - is not just a minor infraction, as I can attest from having my name and checking-account number stolen by an illegal alien.
Taboo are suggestions that illegal immigration could be a prime reason that California now has the highest basket of income, sales, and gas taxes in the nation; the highest number of welfare recipients, with a fifth of the state living below the poverty level; and now a fourth of all hospital admittances found to be suffering from diabetes or prediabetes; or that national rankings of infrastructure quality place the state nearly last in the country.
Without illegal immigration at current levels, the powers of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage would turn most immigrants into Americans within two to three generations, as in the past.
Perhaps the pile of used hypodermic needles dumped by my barn were left by accident? Today I pick up sacks of wet garbage with the owner's name and address on several bills: Does one redeliver back to the dumper, and if so, armed or not? Or does one find it not cost-effective to do so? These are the small, mostly trite decisions that a person at the nexus of illegal immigration makes every day.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/illegal-immigration-ideology-orwellian-virtue-signaling/
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