It appears that President Obama is about to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Depending on what side of the fence you set, this might be a good thing. Of course, allowing immigrants to cross the borders unchecked hasn't really worked anywhere before. Immigration is just like a lot of issues facing our country, we look at them only two ways which is for it or against it. I want to take a look at this from a different angle. This isn't about whether more amnesty needs to be granted or not but why we got here in the first place.
I wanted to start this by telling the story of a couple of friends of mine. The first is a former co-worker that came to America from Romania. He came here with stars in his eyes and a desire to live the American dream. By the time I worked with him, he had been in the country for about six years. The whole time he had working on becoming a citizen. After he got his citizenship, he married a natural born American. This should have ended any discussion about his citizenship but instead he had to keep proving his marriage to INS. My next example has to do with a friend of mine that married a woman from Canada. She had come down here on a work visa and had a full-time job here in the states. She was college educated and a upstanding member of the community. When she married my friend, a natural born citizen, it didn't end her immigration problems but just ramped them up. The odd part is that in both of these examples the immigrant is white. We are told all the time what a racist country America is. but answer this. Why is it that millions of Latinos have crossed the borders unchecked and immigrants from other countries have to go through a whole process? I think I have an answer but it has nothing to do with the kindness of Harry Reid or George Bush.
This amnesty issue is nothing new. Amnesty for Mexican immigrants was actually taken up by Ronald Reagan. Reagan legalized millions of immigrants in 1986. The fact that Reagan was an icon of Republicans again puts an arrow through the concept that this about racist not letting in "brown" people. The question you have to ask is why would a Republican president do this? Especially since it is well known that most Latinos vote Democrat. We need to look at the early 70's for part of the answer. Two events occurred that would bring about a need for "new" Americans. By the early 70's the birth control pill had become in wide spread use. This lead to declining birth rates especially among whites. The twenty years after WWII gave us the "Baby Boomer" generation with a large increase in population and for business, a large increase in future consumers. The pill slowed down the influx of future customers for American corporations. The next shoe dropped in 1973 when Roe V. Wade legalized abortions in the United States. No matter how your feel about abortion, it effected the birth rate in America. Its been estimated that there has been over 56 million abortions since 1973.
I hate to put it like this but think about how many more McDonalds, Applebee's and 7-11's would be open today if those abortions never happened. Its not only business that needed "new" Americans but the government needs them too.
The Pew Research Center estimated that there was over 11 million illegal immigrants in the US in 2012. Most of those 11 million people buy goods and services which are taxed by federal, state, and local governments. A lot of federal grants are based on population of a certain jurisdiction. This means that bodies = bucks. I feel that the real elephant in the room is Social Security. There were about 17 workers per Social Security recipient in 1950. That number today is just a little over two workers per recipient. I believe if you research Social Security enough you'll realize its a Ponzi scheme. As in all Ponzi schemes, it is necessary to get more people to pay into the system than are taking out of the system. In 2012, the Census Bureau claimed that white deaths outnumbered white births for the first time in history. Take into account that roughly everyday 10,000 people retire in the US and you can see why Social Security is in trouble. If there was just someway to add a few million people to the books, then the scam can keep going. There is another group that benefits from a large influx of "new" Americans, the bankers.
Besides buying trinkets from corporations that are taxed by governments, immigrants also buy big ticket items that require loans. This is where the banks come in. As we learned in the Crash of 2008, not only to banks create mortgages, but they also create CDO's, MBS's and credit default swaps from those mortgages. Mortgages = Money. A large chunk of the new immigrants are also on our welfare rolls. In 2010 the JP Morgan segment that ran the food stamp debit card processing for the company had over $5 billion in revenue. Nearly every EBT, unemployment, etc. card there is has a bank that processes it and make a profit from it. Lets just say if the government expanded the number of people to those programs it wouldn't bother the banks.
There is one more issue to add to this topic - wages. Pew Research estimates that undocumented workers make up 5.1% of the workforce. With our unemployment rate standing at around 6%, we can see how illegal aliens plays a big role in wage movement in America. Lets go to "make-believe land" and say that there were no undocumented workers in America. We would have almost no unemployment. This would mean a tighter labor market which would force companies into paying higher wages just to get qualified employees. With all these extra "citizens" here, we now have slack in the system and there is no need to pay higher wages. One of the items in the amnesty plan that a lot of people aren't talking about the the expansion of work visas for the high tech industry. I guess Bill Gates and the Silicon Valley Boys can't find enough home grown talent and need to go over seas to find cheaper.... I mean qualified people.
The sad reality is that the main reason why Latino immigrants are allowed to come over with no hassle has nothing to do with America's desire to be a "melting pot" or that liberals really do care about the plight of the Central American. The truth is the powers that be want more people to buy cheap products, pay taxes, and become debt slaves to big banks.
Platt Robertson
Write-in Candidate for President
