Anthony wrote:
> The present situation allows employers to exploit the anxieties of
> illegal residents in order to pay them less to do the scut work that needs
> doing, but that most US citizens would not do as readily as someone who
just
> needs to make some money to survive in the US, and to save some to send
back
> to relatives.
> The fact that such employers are the chief preventive to further
> legalizing immigration speaks for itself.
> -Tc
The practice also results in many children of the illegal immigrants having
no access to education and health services. The practice of allowing legal
farm workers and their families to live in the state of California, but not
providing proper health and education services for the children and families
thus results the perpetration of even more poverty and misery. It would
therefore be humanitarian to provide legal working foreign families the same
benefits that the US citizen receives, either that or there will eventually
be a 'first world' and a 'third world' population in the US as there is in
South Africa, and other countries. Actually there is already a 'third world'
population in the US and also in Canada (some status and non-status
indians). The third world population in the US (legal and illegal farm
workers - mostly Mexican) are good for the capital with short term vision,
but not the country as a whole, nor for the ecology because these immigrants
may transmit malaria, etc., in their blood.
Chao
John Foster
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