Legal immigrants overstaying their visas is the single largest way illegals get into this country. Your average illegal did not come here by jumping the border or getting smuggled over by the coyotes and their cartel friends.
Getting rid of immigration =/= autarky
I mean, you’re talking about tourists who are there helping the local economy while being annoying. Commenter you’re responding to is talking about making it a requirement for employment in the US educational system.
Exactly. And the fat burger is at least spending $$ there and contributing positively to the economy. This isn’t something that gets me even mildly MOTI, but our educational system has enough problems, and the kids of people who shouldn‘t even be here drive up costs and mean resources have to be used on this bare minimum stuff instead of helping us get ahead. If the local school system wants to take this on that’s great but right now they’re required to and it just holds us back.
I don’t see what low-skilled adult immigrants have to do with a requirement that our educational systems absorb their kids in a manner which requires resources be deferred to teaching them to speak English, which even the poorest most neglected American kids can at least do when they show up at kindergarten. Jamal might not know his colors and maybe nobody ever read him a book, but at least he knows what order he is defying when the teacher yells at him to behave and he refuses.
This is very true. We literally encourage the Latinos to form ethnic ghettos and we bend over backwards to tolerate the crime that goes on there. We import too many of them at once to reasonably assimilate them. People like to point out how at one point the US had over a quarter of the population foreign born (early 20th century), that was also the time where there tons of immigrant gangs from Chinese to Irish to Jews and the Mafia gained the first footholds in the US. Smaller immigrant groups have historically better integrated into American society.
Some of them do. There's a real divide between mestizos who come here and Indios, since the mestizos speak Spanish and the Indios don't. Some speak Nahuatl (although Nahuatl speakers are more integrated into Mexican culture so most speak Spanish) but many speak all sorts of obscure Indian languages few have ever heard of. This leaves them fucked over by the other Latinos because those immigrants have access to Spanish language services but the Indios don't because they can't speak Spanish because they came from some village in the middle of nowhere in Mexico or wherever. There are also many traditional healers operating all over the US in Hispanic ghettos, and what they practice is basically shamanistic pseudomedicine.
>pass those savings onto the consumer
Like Germany did with their Turkish guest workers, and repeated it in 2015, when Sweden joined the cultural enrichment.
