> I present you with another article to start an internal dialogue, and if we are lucky it can serve to start an external and cordial dialogue.
> I see a constant struggle to defend the land that was conquered years ago. We here talk of the illegal immigrants. They say illegal because they have not cleared the red tape processes imposed by those who got here first, or should I say, who got here before. Who is imposing these manipulation rules? By taking a quick glance you can se that the people that are more obsessed on imposing, are those that have been on these lands for very few generations.
> I will give these concepts a twist. At some moment in time, these people or their not so far away families were illegal immigrants. That’s right, the only and true Americans are those known to us as the Native American Indians. Everybody that arrived afterwards, were a result of an illegal mass invasion that set aside the original native. This concept would or should take you to think that the great majority of the population has a certain level of understanding and acceptance. But this is not happening because they are using the “I got here before you following a series of red tape processes that were in some cases slow and meaningless. So “you” (the person in process or not) I ask you to do the same to give me my satisfaction or to help me avoid my frustration if I see you do it easier.”
> I hope to have started your internal dialogue and you are surely thinking, “Where is the justice?” The word “justice” is a word that can not be explained in one paragraph. Let’s leave this word for another article (it will be your homework, for a long time I’m sure.).
> I will give you another set of eyes to see the dilemma. Let’s assume that there are twenty two million undocumented immigrants. And that almost all of them are hard working and good intended people (with human defects and qualities just like you and me). It would be absurd to think you can deport all of these people to all the origin countries involved (not all are Mexican; there are also Chinese, German, Egyptians, Africans, Spaniards, etc.). They cannot be all deported, and not because of the great cost of sending them home. They cannot be sent back because they represent a benefit within the society where they live. They are participant in the economy, they consume products and they help to complete those intermediate basic activities for the benefit of many others. For this reason if they would adopt to remove these people, that would create a difficult hole.
> Another benefit that these people are providing is the capacity to grow the population. In order for the economy to grow, it is needed to have a growing population (at least that is how the current economy is designed in the US). The population that has already been there for at least two generations already stopped growing. Look at the European countries where population growth is negative. The United States has fallen into the same pattern only lagging a few years behind.
> In summary, the solution is NOT the massive deportation, nor putting people in jail or putting visual or non visual labels. The solution is to have efficient governmental processes for the final and total integration of these people (they are already integrated physically and with activities in the society, now they only need the paperwork). In short, the government has a “backlog” that needs attending (backlog are lagging and pending orders that need to get supplied or solved immediately). Try to adopt the following mentality “First of all we are humans living and coexisting on this planet, all the rest should be talked without fear”.