So, this post is based on a lot of assumptions...
Assuming illegal immigrants are coming to the US because they understandand and value freedom and opportunity...
Assuming illegals would be willing to assimilate and be aprt of the culture and espouse American values...
Assuming illegals would work hard and build a life worthy of the American Dream...
Assuming illegals would be law-abiding as much as the average American...
And assuming conservatives would be the role models that illegals would look up to...
Maybe there's a way to swing the illegal flow to our advantage. Are the above solutions unrealistic? Why are they trying to get here?
Obviously stopping the flow is the priority. BUT, while it's happening what are we doing to get them to choose our side?
If they value freedom and opportunity, we can use them to change the environment in their home countries.
Many illegal immigrants are good hardworking people. There are also lots of others that don't fit into that category. The percentages are hard to know. Unfortunately, the organizations that integrate them into society plug them into structured welfare organizations. Also, knowing they are illegal, they themselves have little incentive to contribute to the culture at large. For that reason, good fences make good neighbors. Then we decide on policies regarding who gets to pass the gate.
But today our open borders function merely as the escape valve that allows other countries to ignore their own difficult socio-economic problems by dumping them on our doorstep.
Good insights. I wonder if there is a way to identify the "good ones" and turn them into change agents and champions among their fellow illegals (assuming they are from a similar background). They are leaving their messed up countries within which there is no chance to turn the tide, in my opinion. Anyway, I'm frustrated that they are here and still coming, and more frustrated that we cannot "reprogram" the ones who show up in our communities... maybe you're onto something with the employers... maybe we need to work through them.