Mexicans living in the US, loose with open immigration
Leonard Abbott
14th Amendment Constitution Says NO to Alien Birthright Citizenship
BWJames Sensenbrenner Not Deterred by.. by Jean Brown Harrell,
formerly Garcia
TR: "Never under any condition should this nation look at an immigrant
as primarily a labor unit." Even a true program for guest workers, far
from being the solution to our immigration problems, is a dead end
morally and practically. These programs are based on the immoral idea
that workers are not human. As Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Never
under any condition should this nation look at an immigrant as primarily
a labor unit." This mistake has been used to rationalize the importation
of captive labor, whether as indentured servants, African slaves,
Chinese coolies or Mexican braceros. Every guest worker program -
everywhere - has failed, for three reasons. First, they result in
large-scale permanent settlement. Germany ended its Turkish guest worker
program in 1973, and not only did the "temporary" workers not return
home, they brought their families to join them, causing the immigrant
population to double. Second, the programs spark illegal immigration.
Our Mexican immigrant population (almost all once illegal aliens) is 18
times bigger than it was in 1960 because our last big guest-worker
scheme, FDR's Bracero Program, produced illegal immigration flows we're
still facing today....
26 Mar 2006