bendog
Diamond Member
On the poverty issue, I heard this story on the radio while driving. I thought it was interesting.
Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists
To me, the wall is just a politically divisive thing, and that's why Trump ran it up the campaign wall in the first place. If the US is place very hostile to illegal immigrants, of all stripes, I think we'll see fewer. It won't end, and the wall won't end it either. I think a war on drugs analogy is apt.
When a guy is convicted of selling drugs, and goes to jail, his family is separated. He's separated from his buds. His job. Choosing what to eat. Generally, that's why we put people in jail. To make them miserable over doing something we don't like.
Yet, people still sell drugs. Imo for two basic reasons. 1. They're addicts who need to pay for their own drugs, and they can't get honest work because they're addicts. I don't think there's an immigration analogy there, because these people usually have physical/psychological reasons affecting their addictions. 2. Other people, and I see them all the time, sell drugs because that's the way they can make the most money. Taking away their families and friends and freedom to be in the US, are not effective because ..... they're willing to chance it to have more stuff for them and their families.
As inhumane as it is, I think you see some changes in illegal immigration if you make it very hostile for families here, and very difficult to send remittances back. We will always see young people selling themselves into sexual slavery to get out of even worse hell holes. We will always see people willing to sail across seas filled with sharks because their situations are so awful. But a wall doesn't change that.
Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists
To me, the wall is just a politically divisive thing, and that's why Trump ran it up the campaign wall in the first place. If the US is place very hostile to illegal immigrants, of all stripes, I think we'll see fewer. It won't end, and the wall won't end it either. I think a war on drugs analogy is apt.
When a guy is convicted of selling drugs, and goes to jail, his family is separated. He's separated from his buds. His job. Choosing what to eat. Generally, that's why we put people in jail. To make them miserable over doing something we don't like.
Yet, people still sell drugs. Imo for two basic reasons. 1. They're addicts who need to pay for their own drugs, and they can't get honest work because they're addicts. I don't think there's an immigration analogy there, because these people usually have physical/psychological reasons affecting their addictions. 2. Other people, and I see them all the time, sell drugs because that's the way they can make the most money. Taking away their families and friends and freedom to be in the US, are not effective because ..... they're willing to chance it to have more stuff for them and their families.
As inhumane as it is, I think you see some changes in illegal immigration if you make it very hostile for families here, and very difficult to send remittances back. We will always see young people selling themselves into sexual slavery to get out of even worse hell holes. We will always see people willing to sail across seas filled with sharks because their situations are so awful. But a wall doesn't change that.