that would wreak havoc<\/a>!\u00a0 Would it?<\/p>\nWa-Po says work now done by illegal immigrants wouldn\u2019t get done: picking crops, hotel maids, day laborers, nannies and gardeners. \u00a0Hmmm, that\u2019s the same argument made by the South to defend slavery.\u00a0 Seems to me the answer is the same: the market will adjust.\u00a0 Work that isn\u2019t economical to be done, won\u2019t be done; work that must be done will no longer be done at below-market wages, it\u2019ll be done by machine or by hiring Americans at living wages. \u00a0Yes, prices will go up.\u00a0 Low prices don\u2019t justify open borders.<\/p>\n
Trump offers to keep families together when the illegals go. What about mixed families with one legal and one illegal parent?\u00a0 They can choose: both can go or legal residents can stay.\u00a0 Sad marital choices shouldn\u2019t drive national policy.<\/p>\n
What about illegals who\u2019ve been here a long time? \u00a0That only means you\u2019re a career criminal, it doesn\u2019t justify the crime.<\/p>\n
What about children who were born in America and have birthright citizenship?\u00a0 Parents can choose: take your kids with you or leave them here with legal residents. \u00a0Having a child doesn\u2019t mitigate your crime any more than if you were a bank robber.<\/p>\n
Ordinary Americans don\u2019t have a problem with these proposals because if we have to follow the law, so should everybody else.\u00a0 The people having a hissy are the one-percenters who\u2019ll be inconvenienced having to find new nannies and gardeners.\u00a0 That\u2019s a poor basis to set national policy and the best justification I can think of, to change it.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Me? \u00a0I’d just settle for a high fence, and some clear policies for legal immigration. \u00a0As, it happens, would most Latinos. \u00a0The ones\u00a0who are citizens of the\u00a0US, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Donald says illegal immigrants have to go.\u00a0 The Wa-Po is clutching its pearls \u2013 that would wreak havoc!\u00a0 Would it? Wa-Po says work now done by illegal immigrants wouldn\u2019t get done: picking crops, hotel maids, day laborers, nannies and gardeners. \u00a0Hmmm, that\u2019s the same argument made by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54863,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions\/54863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}