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While curing America of its addiction to population growth would involve some adjustments and, like all adjustments, some “pains,” but there would also be many “gains.” |
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CHAPTER 7: REHABILITATION
The Gains: Migrant Deaths Reduced
As victimized as illegal aliens living in America might be by “coyotes” and other people smugglers, employers, and extortionists, perhaps the ultimate victims of America’s addiction to population growth are the illegal aliens who die on their way to America. Who is responsible for those deaths? Specifically we may blame cruel deserts or cruel human smugglers, but ultimately it is our Congresses and our Administrations who bear responsibility for encouraging people to break our laws and to take life-threatening risks.
Each time our politicians reward illegal aliens living in America, they send a message to tens of millions of citizens of other nations: “If you can manage to illegally enter America and, with the complicity of employers seeking cheap labor, avoid apprehension until our next amnesty declaration, you will be rewarded with most of the benefits of American citizenship, including the right to bring spouses, children, parents, and siblings to America so they can obtain their citizenship and invite still others, ad infinitum.”
Having encouraged millions of people of other nations to risk their lives as they break American immigration laws, do you sometimes wonder whether our politicians ever feel pangs of guilt when they read about the hundreds of illegal aliens who die on rafts at sea, who suffocate to death in ships’ holds and in shipping containers, or who dehydrate and starve to death in American deserts?
What a great day it will be when there are: No more “coyotes” and other people smugglers; no more pandering politicians buying ethnic votes at taxpayer expense; no more manufacturers of false identification which can be used by terrorists as easily as by illegal alien farm workers and hospitality industry employees; no more employers making “campaign contributions” to members of Congress in order to have taxpayer subsidized cheap labor. |
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©2006 Edward C. Hartman. All Rights Reserved
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