This is an expression I simply hate. It always conceals an intention to increase immigration. What I want is a complete ban on processing immigration claims of people who are in the US illegally. This is a simple, cheap and fast method to stop torturing both the US and Central America.
Any politician who uses this expression should be boycotted.
Have you heard about maras? The youth gangs that are the scourge of Central America. They attract kids as young as 9 and engage them in a career of murder, gang rape, street violence. The maras are making Central America unlivable.
And guess what? Among those kids who become members of the maras, pretty much everyone has a parent or both who left “to work in the US”. Who is supposed to raise these kids?
Also, the people who leave are the youngest, the strongest, the most enterprising ones. Who’s going to build the economy of these countries when only the old and the kids are left in very many families?
And this is the tip of the iceberg. There are enormous problems with the economy of remittances that destroys the capacity of these countries to build democracy.
Crime, poverty, fatherlessness – it’s a scourge.
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No, I hadn’t heard about maras. Everything you describe sounds believable and bad. But I don’t know anything about central america.
I want to live in a country that has rule of law and I don’t think you can have rule of law when a huge part of your workforce isn’t in the country legally. So, I left.
As a (legal) immigrant myself, when I lived in the US, I didn’t feel like I could express myself honestly to my american coworkers because I would have had too much fear that they would decide that all immigrants are bad, not just the illegal ones, and they would decide to send me back to where I came from. I still don’t feel like I can discuss the topic with anyone honestly because I have too much fear that people who will understand my views on illegal immigration will decide that they’d prefer not to have me as a fellow citizen, and I have too much self-interest to want to give people reasons to harm me.
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