Border Wars

Dear Readers,

I'm excited to say that my Prop 19 BLOG got an insane amount of views from people from across the globe. In fact, there were two people from Denmark, ten people from England, three people from Iraq (I assume they were service members), and five people from Canada. I'm excited to see that something I write can actually get views outside from my facebook friends. Also, I was the "Featured Post" on Blogger.com for a solid fifteen minutes!

Now that my ego is inflamed, I have to say that I am aware of my flawed arguments concerning pot legalization, but it was my opinion and I stand by what I wrote. I feel like the next thing I will discuss on my quest to write about something serious at least once a week, is the war on border protection.

It is no secret to those who are close to me that my views on border protection and illegal immigration are very strong. I'll start off by just putting it out there that I strongly disagree with any form of illegal immigration regardless of the reason and I am very much in favor of a strong protection at all our borders and ports of entry.

Something I have learned in the last few years is that contrary to what most Americans believe, the Founding Fathers were skeptical of immigration. In fact, they had no objection to bringing in immigrants to specialize in jobs that Americans weren't specialized in. But, according to Thomas E. Woods, Jr., they were "convinced that mass immigration would bring social turmoil and political confusion in its wake."

“Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom?” Jefferson asked. “If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here.” Alexander Hamilton was even more blunt about it. Again, I quote a piece from Woods, Jr., who found a text from Hamilton that said, the safety of a republic, according to him, depended “essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment, on a uniformity of principles and habits, on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice, and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”

With this said, I will point out the arguments of the opposition. While I disagree with the notion that Americans should open their arms to endless immigrants with no criminal record and no trafficking motivations, I agree strongly that immigrants from other countries provide services to our country that our born Americans wouldn't do.

I have a big problem with specifically the border war on the Mexican-U.S. border. There was once a point, not so long ago, that Americans would cross the border to shop and ultimately stimulate the economy, but in the last twenty years Americans won't take the risk because of the dangerous drug cartels that have basically taken over the government. With that said, there are the people who just want to come to the country to provide for their families, but even the most innocent have the potential to have been corrupted by the drug, human, or organ trafficking that is killing our country.

In my opinion, I feel as though the increased border protection is more than neccessary to keeping our country's unstable economy in a decent state. My favorite thing to point out is that illegal immigrants do nothing for our economy except the few dollars that they put back in for food, clothes, etc. Most illegal immigrants send back upwards of 90% of the pay checks they receive from their low paying-and most of the time bad working conditions-jobs back to their loved ones back in Mexico. What happens when they get hurt? First off, a lot of the time they don't get the medical treatment they need in fear of deportation, but when it is so bad that they seek medical assistance, they go to our medical facilities. Our hospital systems in America are set up to be compassionate, and they give the immigrants medical treatment with government programs that are supposed to help out TAXPAYING Americans. This is a problem because with the "illegal" stamped on them, they never pay a dime in taxes that put these programs into work.

Readers, think what you want. Obviously I have a strong view on this and I hope it doesn't make you think less of me, or even more of me because this is a debate that has Americans at arms about. Keep your mind open, be educated about it, and try to see it from all angles. I've enjoyed writing this post, and I hope my lack of joking in this one doesn't turn you off from future posts. I promise I will have a good mix of serious and fun posts!

On a side note, do something crazy from the hours of 1:00am to 2:00am, because once 2:00am hits, you get to do that entire hour over again. One would argue that whatever you did during the first hour never happened.

Goodnight,

I quoted a text in the beginning from:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21626