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Illegal aliens are people who have not followed the rules of America’s immigration laws--people who have not met screening requirements for matters such as good health, national security, no criminal record, adequate financial resources--but they are, nevertheless, in America. Then, how can they be victims of America’s addiction to population growth? |
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CHAPTER 5: THE VICTIMS – LIVING, BREATHING
Illegal Aliens
To obtain a full appreciation of the extent to which many illegal aliens and their families are victims, I urge you to read Mexifornia, a painfully personal and heartfelt book by Victor Davis Hanson.
Or, watch a PBS documentary, Farmingville, a 78-minute POV film about what happened when 1,500 Mexican day laborers moved into a New York town of 15,000 in the late 1990s.
Early in the film, Paul Tonna, Suffolk County Legislator, says something about Farmingville having a prosperous economy in need of people willing to work. “We need day laborers.” And throughout the film, one might surmise his loyalties were primarily with the day laborers--and their employers--rather than with his constituents.
However, near the end of the film he talks about faith being broken by federal and state representatives who, as he sees it, believe what is good for the economy is “. . . to have a slave labor class . . .” in Farmingville--as long as there is no “terrible open violence.” And he continues talking about how everyone involved will “. . . keep on doing a two-step,” because they want the economy to do well and they believe the economy is doing well “. . . because we have this slave labor.”
Just as white Southerners in the early 19th century convinced themselves they could not survive without Black slaves, many Americans have convinced themselves that they cannot survive without cheap illegal alien labor. |
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©2006 Edward C. Hartman. All Rights Reserved
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