So you want to put a stop to illegal immigration, do you? Those damn
immigrants, taking American jobs and taking advantage of government
hand-outs!
What about the legal immigrants – the ones who work within the system?
Millions of hard working people are legally in the United States, working
hard, paying taxes, and getting – screwed. Legal immigrants pay all the same
taxes you do – federal and state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes,
real estate taxes when they own property; they also pay legal fees to work
their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system – work visa,
sponsorship, green card, citizenship. And yet, despite paying the full
freight, they can’t vote in any elections, and thus have no political
representation, and little or no political influence. You remember the
original rallying cry of the American Revolution, don’t you – something
about “No taxation without representation!"
And incidentally, those illegal immigrants? They’re the ones building the
houses you live in – doing the real grunt work of masonry, carpentry, and
general construction labor. Once the houses are built, they’ll be the ones
you call to clean your house. And serve you at fast food restaurants. And
help you find your stuff at Home Depot. And man the cash register at
Wal-Mart. And be a nanny to your kids and caretaker to your elderly parents.
And do all the other hard, grinding, thankless labor that you, and other
Americans, really don’t want to do.
