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Who wouldn't want to come?
Tom Barrett
Issue date: 10/4/07 Section: Opinion
All too often, many of us in the United States look down on the working Mexican immigrants before we even think about why so many of them want to come here.
We demonize them for taking our jobs, but how can you blame someone for wanting to work? It is true, however, that increasing numbers of illegal immigrants here can wreak havoc on our already overburdened healthcare and education programs, among other things.
But simply closing off the border with tighter border patrol will only lead people to find more dangerous routes into the country, leading to increasing numbers of desert deaths. Instead of pointlessly trying to keep them out of the country, why not try examining the question of why they would want to come here in the first place? Encouraging domestic economic prosperity in Mexico will be much more effective than building a wall.
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Tom Barrett is a junior philosophy major from Colonia, N.J. He can be reached at thomas.barrett@villanova.edu.
We demonize them for taking our jobs, but how can you blame someone for wanting to work? It is true, however, that increasing numbers of illegal immigrants here can wreak havoc on our already overburdened healthcare and education programs, among other things.
But simply closing off the border with tighter border patrol will only lead people to find more dangerous routes into the country, leading to increasing numbers of desert deaths. Instead of pointlessly trying to keep them out of the country, why not try examining the question of why they would want to come here in the first place? Encouraging domestic economic prosperity in Mexico will be much more effective than building a wall.
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Tom Barrett is a junior philosophy major from Colonia, N.J. He can be reached at thomas.barrett@villanova.edu.
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terry
posted 10/06/07 @ 1:07 AM EST
I am against a wall too, but you pick and choose your statistics to fit your prejudice that we aren't encourageing growth in Mexico. We already are and have been encouraging growth in Mexico. (Continued…)
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