We’ve got one Asian American candidate for governor in Oregon. His name is John Lim, and he’s a tough talking Republican who wants to rid our state of those illegal immigrants that Arizona has been struggling with. He supports Arizona’s new immigration law because “this is not about the racism” and “this is about the respecting our law and order.”
Arizona’s new immigration law allows law enforcement to detain anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant. If you’re a bad speller, does that count as a reason for suspicion? If so, it’s a good thing he doesn’t live in Arizona–the “imigration” police might go after him.
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ok so I will throw out something controversial to start of the the conversation.
I must say while I have some problems with the law, some of the groups against it quite simply do not want borders.
Does our country have a right to regulate who comes in the country or not?
Why should people from Mexico (and central America) get to come across and not wait or have background checks while people from Africa, Asia, Europe, etc have to pay lots of $ and wait.
The reality is most illegal immigrants are from Mexico. Arizona is said to have near half a million illegal immigrants. No wonder they are tired of the federal gov’t doing nothing.
Most of the people are hard working no doubt, but so would people from the Sudan or Cambodia be.
If you are not in favor of deporting anyone, you are basically saying don’t have any immigration limits whatsoever.
Most news people and bloggers are middle class and not competing with illegal immigrants for low skill job so its very easy for them to be so out spoken but what if your job in construction, maid service, etc was paying less because of increased supply due to illegal immigration?
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Lingyai,
I agree with just about everything you say. We should regulate it. My question is on just the law itself–does law enforcement have the right to profile based on appearance?
I found this interesting:
“Most news people and bloggers are middle class and not competing with illegal immigrants for low skill job so its very easy for them to be so out spoken but what if your job in construction, maid service, etc was paying less because of increased supply due to illegal immigration?”
My contention up until this point has been that Americans don’t want those jobs. However…what if they paid better? By reducing illegal immigration, maybe we would. I’ve talked about subsidizing physical labor before, but maybe the best way to do it is to reduce illegal immigration. Without profiling, of course.
We can always wonder “what if they were paid better”, but artificially raising low-skilled labor wages will skew the market back toward illegals. If you’re talking about subsidizing low-skilled labor, then you’ll move people from marginal medium-skilled labor down to low-skilled labor to take up the subsidy. You’re just falling into Arizonians’ self-interest trap here. Let em kick out the illegals and suffer from high labor costs. They’ll learn quickly enough.
While I want to be sure they are not conducting profiling of any kind, I do support stopping the illegals. What’s the point of laws and borders if they aren’t enforced.