as seen on tv
Senator
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/22745/20141001/immigration-news-today-mayors-agree-support-welcome-refugee-central-american.htm
It’s no secret that most large US cities have been losing population for years. Especially in the rust belt, high tax northern cities, and crime districts. However, places that are within easy hiking distance of the Mexican border, not so much . . .
Well, democratic party mayors are catching on. “Send us your tired, your poor, your gang members, and people without job or language skills”, they beg. The mayors even signed a petition, at the behest of “Welcoming America”. I am at loss to say how “Welcoming America was induced to create this petition, and how it’s first and only appearance so far is in a latino-oriented periodical. Use your imagination, I guess.
And if you want more illegal immigrants, you don't even need to bother with the petition. Just call the white house - they probably have a hotline to take this sort of call, eh?
From a timing perspective, this couldn’t be LESS auspicious. People in Dallas are running around as if the sky is falling, as a result of just ONE (legal) immigrant from Africa with Ebola. There literally thousands of web hits when you google “terrorists at the Mexican border” “illegal immigrant gang members” and “immigrant killer was deported five times previously”.
I don’t want to seem churlish. About 85-90% (at least) of illegal immigrants are good people. They just want to mow your lawn, work as a janitor in an office building; put new shingles on your home; or train your dog not to bite and bark at strangers. God bless them.
But there’s a legal way to enter this country, and not steal someone else’s identity. I’m truly sorry that the government you fled is corrupt and dysfunctional. But Obama has already said he’s not sending ground troops there to sort things out – not to latin america, or Iraq or Syria. Full disclosure – he’s sending them to Africa, instead.
Big city mayors with eroding finances and populations – I’m in your corner too. But the right way to fix your problems is to improve schools and graduation rates; fight crime; close the open air drug markets, and attract real jobs from the private sector – the kind that pay taxes to the city treasury.
The "welcoming america" guys you’re hoping will move into the vacant buildings in your city aren’t on a trajectory to pay taxes any time soon. They’re already recipients of federal assistance.
But (mayors who are pleading for immigrants) - maybe you knew that all along? And you’re so desperate that adding still more city residents who are “takers” is the best idea you could come up with?
