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Warriors, when faced with insidious invasions, predictably must posture and challenge before they accept reality. The inward immigration of Hispanics, and in particular Mexican, provide a perfect frame to observe the predictable warrior actions. |
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In US history, the use of immigration policy primarily existed as a tool to control immigration, not to restrict overall immigration. Around 1970 the ability to find cheap, unused land and resources changed the attitude of the country: the end of Manifest Destiny. Since our country uses warrior perceptions to create internal and external policies, decided new immigration was a societal threat without regard to the immigrants value to our society. Warriors, naturally, can only confront the immigration issue with the only possible paths are those in which it appears the warriors will win, will conquer, will dominate, with the illegal immigrant will do whatever they say, and the good restored to society. I call this the John Wayne Syndrome: hit someone hard enough and long enough and they will adapt your morality. No wonder his films, which I unabashedly watch too, are still so popular with warriors: he represents their ideal. Unfortunately, the pie got cooked in the heat of the debate so no matter how they perceive and feel internally, these immigrants became so valuable to the operation of our economy to replace them with current citizens would take many years. And I'm not sure we can replace them with any other ethnic group: the tribal background Mexican, Central, and South American tribal groups always were and still are hard working people among several important parameters that make them as valuable as scientists from India. To keep this paper short as I have run out of time for this trivial problem. The immigrants are here to stay. The immigration will taper off as enough immigrants will have immigrated to fill all the available jobs for the immigrants skills. In ten years this will not be a discussed problem at all. In fact, it's not a problem now - except for the warriors' egos. Besides, how do you move millions of people anywhere for any reason? Ask the Chinese and their electrical power dams and their issues. Reality says you have to pay for the move backwards whereas the inward immigration is paid for by the immigrant - just as always. (Gives current immigrants something in common with old immigrants.) Reality can be very difficult for warriors, which require some compromise and not all conquering. How valuable can an immigrant be? Ask any restaurant owner. Ask the people who eat in these restaurants who don't want to pay another $2 per entree. The warrior argument they are a threat to our society is nonsense and a totally internal ego issue: they must confront the issue and frame the argument about how tough they are on the immigrants. That's not much of an argument except to the participants of the arguments. The value of the immigrants is trumping the warriors arguments. |
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