Obama’s immigration “order,” leaving his sanctimonious blather aside, is total politics.
No surprise here, as his every calculation is driven by political expediency. The harsh reality is that these Central American and Mexican illegals are the impoverished and unwanted masses of those nations. Obviously, they came here to better their circumstances but their circumstances are not our problem.
Certainly it’s easier for them to come here rather than raise hell in the country of their birth, given our flaccid immigration enforcement efforts and spineless politicians. That they work hard is irrelevant. Do we need labor? Yes, skilled high value labor, namely; doctors, engineers, economists, etc. We do not need more low-skilled manual labor which exacerbates our already serious urban employment problems.
The pro-amnesty crowd needs to acquaint itself with the fact that this is 2012 and the USA is no longer an agrarian and rural nation.
Tom Coffey
Herricks
