It is simply a fact that while illegal immigration was going up the unemployment rate for the most part remained the same, at times going even lower. In the new era of anti-illegal-immigration hysteria, government with your consent has been harassing healthy business who still need illegal immigrants. Unemployment is now going up, which was not happening when illegal immigration was going up. With Howard Industries hiring 500 illegal immigrants, they needed to add salesmen, secretaries, bookkeepers, etc,–non-illegal immigrant Americans. Now that they’re being forced to decrease productivity per worker they’re probably going to have to let go some of the non-immigrants Americans they’d hired. Good job there.

Of course every major US city has unemployed people. Let’s discount those who on their own are making a career/life change, go to school, etc, and we have a very small number, maybe 1 or 2 per 100. It is reasonable to believe that 1 or 2 in 100 aren’t working because they lack work ethic, they may have been fired for good reason, may have a criminal record that makes it difficult to get employment. Don’t blame illegal immigrants, who’s work ethic and whose character they should copy and not demean. Frankly, you’re just adding to the problem by making excuses for them.

arturo posits that the Mexican border is almost a park like place where mommies walk their babies and chat in the sunshine.

We have 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in the US. (How does anyone know that number?) arturo would have you believe that only a scant few are in prison, committing crimes, taking welfare. arturo suggests all these people are doing jobs that would go unfilled by US citizens.

Look at every major US city. There is an area where there is poverty, high unemployment, high crime, community dysfunction, vandalism, gangs, bars on windows, etc. These areas are full of US citizens. Are we to believe that there are no illegal immigrants among them? Are we to believe that illegal immigrants can find jobs that our citizens will not take?

Illegal immigrants crowd into houses and apartments to make the per capita rent as small as possible. They take cash payments as “contract labor” that has no deductions. Their $5.00 an hour is a full $5.00. Many have learned how to do their “contract labor” and collect welfare as well.

arturo sings a sweet song of harmony and utility that just does not pass the simplest of smell tests. There is a long history to that type of propaganda.

If 12 million jobs have been added to the economy, that does not mean that the additional 12 million illegals are not taking those jobs away from Americans, merely that the increase in the number of jobs is equal in number to the increase in the number of illegals.
You forget, I worked in an unemployment office. I saw many, many, many low-income American citizens apply for benefits. Often they did not qualify because the jobs they had held did not pay enough. Meanwhile, illegals who would have qualified monetarily came in to be disqualified on their illegal status so that they could collect welfare. They held not only jobs that American citizens would do, but better jobs than our citizens had.

I have a long association with propaganda writers going back to those of Daniel Ortega and Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens of Chile. I am very much acquainted with the cell work of Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto who wrote poetry under the name Pablo Neruda in Chile. My “paranoia” stems from monitoring “the game.”

If you are a generic arturo ferandez, so be it. But you are doing identical work to another arturo fernandez on the web. Or a whole cell of arturo fernandez writers.

One more coincidence, arturo fernandez is also vocal on the web concerning ties between Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa and Chavez of Venezuela concerning a military union against Colombia.

You’re sounding a bit paranoid. “arturo fernandez” is my actual name, and my comments on blogs only concern illegal immigration and less often gay rights.

Like it or not, infiltration of gangs has been an outcome of illegal immigration. Like it or not, public schools have been hard hit. Like it or not, hospitals have been hit hard.

For those who do not have the wherewithall to insulate themselves from the downside, there is legitimate frustration.

My point is simply that the equation is not simple. One cannot say that opposing illegal immigration is a function of a lack of compassion.

I was not trying to tie illegal immigration to violent crime. Rather, I was making the point that there are aspects of illegal immigration that have genuinely impacted folks.

Yet, anyone who brings up the costs is slammed as lacking in compassion.

In short, I am focusing on a singular aspect – compassion/lack of compassion as dialogue metric -that should not be extrapolated to mean more than I meant.

At the end of the day, I favor a guest worker program that allows a free exchange of labor, unconnected with welfare. I also favor a far more effective immigration system that moves folks through the system more easily. I have, over the years, traveled to DC a number of times from overseas, trying to facilitate immigration for individuals from third world countries.

Without getting technical, the old style communist cell practice was to use a code name in publications with a unique spelling or not using capital letters or including a nickname. This way, other cells would recognize the name and join in support of the “party line” being pushed.

If it appears that I am saying that arturo fernadez is a mole on blogs, it is because that is how it appears to me. Although his arguments are distinctly ham handed, it is still cheap and easy for arturo fernandez to spread the germ of doubt. That is the job of the fifth columnist.

I get my statistical information about countries from the Department of State Bulletins, the CIA World Factbook and information from the National Ground Intelligence Service. I have checked arturo fernandez’s statistics against these sources and they never pan out. He must be a lot smarter than our intelligence agencies. Or he is a flamboyant example of: “Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.”

I don’t blame you much for misunderstanding because you didn’t read the full article. What you quoted back to us is what the article goes on to explain is not happening.

“The second largest income source of the Mexican economy is money sent home to family by Mexicans in the United States.”

Nonsense. Remittances equal about 18 billion. In an economy with a GDP of 1.2 trillion, that’s about 2%. I think you’re talking about foreign income. The service sector comprises 70% of GDP, which means Mexicans are Mexicans’ main reason for why Mexicans have the highest per capita income in Latin America.

Of course illegal immigration should be resolved with amnesty. Americans (the entrepreneur, but more important the consumer) have welcomed 12 million people into their communities with jobs and for lower prices. Amnesty is the law simply catching up with what Americans have decided they value.

“Why are the California prisons bursting at the seams with prisoners who are illegal aliens?”

Nonsense. Illegal immigrants commit less crimes proportionately.

After all, if you send illegal immigrants home, they will simply stay and work in their own economy. Right? According to arturo, Mexico has got its population and economic issues all but whipped. And the border is nearly deserted except for day-trippers who come to shop and fly kites.