Morris O’Kelly of EURweb was kind enough to respond to my comments yesterday on his latest piece entitled “The War on Barack Obama – Part II”. Although I have already responded back to him, I will just make my second response into a separate post a little later.
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The following is what it says at Ellis Island…and was seen by the thousands who
came from Europe…most of whom were poor and uneducated.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Education and economic status are not pre-requisites for earning citizenship. And
it’s questionable methodology to base part of your illegal immigration argument
around these facts. You ought to be careful using that argument…the same was used
AGAINST African-Americans being able to vote…and such was the basis for literacy
tests and poll taxes.
But like I said, keep everyone out or let everyone in. Either or.
But don’t frame the immigration debate around “national security” issues but also
welcome Canadians…and conveniently NOT allow Haitians.
Your argument does not address why Haitians aren’t allowed in the country. You’re
regurgitating the classic arguments as to “why” illegal immigration is a burden but
does not address the hypocrisy. Immigration is far more than just the Latino
immigrants…Asians, Islanders, etc.
You can’t have ethnic-specific immigration laws…and therein is the problem. One
border, one immigration policy.
Tell me this, before the influx of millions of Mexicans, why was immigration
“illegal” even then from the southern border?
As for the “bilingual” argument.
The whole of Europe requires students to learn two languages, their “national”
language and another. Only the U.S. shrinks away from this…kind of like the
metric system.
Going one step further, even in Canada they teach English and French. Your own
argument betrays itself. Bilingual education is not a “burden” it’s an improvement.
Also, I’m not sure how charter schools relate to the immigration debate. Charter
schools relate to the inadequacy of inner city schools, the immigration influx is
not “the reason” these schools are inadequate. They’ve been inadequate for more
than 30 years, longer than the influx of the majority of Hispanics. Also, inner
city schools are all across the country…the immigrants in this discussion are not.
Don’t follow the correlation.
It’s easy to blame immigrants for many problems, but mathematically it’s simply not
possible.
One can’t argue about the “burden” immigrants put on the infrastructure yet not have
any measurement for how Canadians and other “arbitrarily” legal immigrants impact it
as well.
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