Undocumented Entrants
Two posts on Times and Seasons, here and here, serve to illustrate the difficulty I have with restrictionist immigration policies.
Those two lovely babies entered the United States without inspection (no passports, no visas, no Customs and Border Protection officer to usher them in).
They didn't have to wait for their priority dates to become current.
They didn't have to wait for USCIS to process their paperwork.
They didn't need labor certification, although their mothers would likely certify that labor was involved. No employer had to show that they will not take a job where there is an able and willing American worker available to fill it.
They couldn't pass the English proficiency test, to say nothing of the U.S. government and civics test. Not only are they illiterate, they cannot even talk. No English, no Spanish. Nothing.
They are unlikely to pay taxes for nearly two decades, and they will be a net drain on resources, governmental and familial, for years.
And, on top of all that, their ancestors probably immigrated to the United States without fulfilling many of those requirements. Odds are, they paid their passage, got listed on the passenger manifest, and came ashore in New Orleans or New York or Boston or Baltimore or Philadelphia--no passport, no visa, no USCIS paperwork, no sponsoring relative or employer, no labor certification, no priority dates, nada, nichts, nani mo nai.
My guess is that there were at least two babies born last week in Puebla, or Tabasco, or Jalisco, or Chihuahua. Explain to me why they should be denied the opportunity to come to the United States if they want, to try to make a better life for themselves here than would be possible there. And "they are Mexicans" is not an explanation.
Those two lovely babies entered the United States without inspection (no passports, no visas, no Customs and Border Protection officer to usher them in).
They didn't have to wait for their priority dates to become current.
They didn't have to wait for USCIS to process their paperwork.
They didn't need labor certification, although their mothers would likely certify that labor was involved. No employer had to show that they will not take a job where there is an able and willing American worker available to fill it.
They couldn't pass the English proficiency test, to say nothing of the U.S. government and civics test. Not only are they illiterate, they cannot even talk. No English, no Spanish. Nothing.
They are unlikely to pay taxes for nearly two decades, and they will be a net drain on resources, governmental and familial, for years.
And, on top of all that, their ancestors probably immigrated to the United States without fulfilling many of those requirements. Odds are, they paid their passage, got listed on the passenger manifest, and came ashore in New Orleans or New York or Boston or Baltimore or Philadelphia--no passport, no visa, no USCIS paperwork, no sponsoring relative or employer, no labor certification, no priority dates, nada, nichts, nani mo nai.
My guess is that there were at least two babies born last week in Puebla, or Tabasco, or Jalisco, or Chihuahua. Explain to me why they should be denied the opportunity to come to the United States if they want, to try to make a better life for themselves here than would be possible there. And "they are Mexicans" is not an explanation.
posted by Mark Butler at 4:47 PM
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