An Educated Proposal For Immigration - Perdaily.com

An Educated Proposal For Immigration - Perdaily.com

An Educated Proposal For Immigration

from Perdaily.com by Leonard

The color that interests me most is gray. I do not see it anywhere in most of the discussions regarding education or other important issues that are profoundly effecting our society. Since Arizona passed its racial profiling predisposed law to address the presence of undocumented workers in this country, all I have heard is that it is racist -- which it most surely is. Whether a law is ill-conceived or not, I think one must also raise some of the following points if one ever hopes to find a fair solution to immigration that is highly problematic.

Some points to consider:

1. One reason that so many people are crossing our southern border illegally is because the euphemistically named North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) has bankrupted the Mexican farming sector without providing the alternative high paying manufacturing jobs that were supposed to put many Mexicans into the middle class. Highly mechanized American agra-business can produce a staple crop like corn far more cheaply than Mexican farmers, which has made ghost towns out of the villages where this form of agriculture used to take place in Mexico.

2. Mexican governmental corruption continues to make the very small percentage of Mexicans who own the