"Legislators, politicians, policy wonks & media outlets who want the law changed use words that obfuscate to shape the ground the way they want it.
That begs the question: why don’t you just change the law?
The answer is obvious: they don’t have the support of the people.
So this is an end-run around congress.
Which is an end-run around the citizen’s of this nation who still believe in nations & sovereignty.
Two important questions follow:
- Why?
- To what end?
The borders of this country are like a femoral artery that has been severed by our own hands.
America as a nation is bleeding out while leaders on both sides stand and watch, yelling for more life rafts and life jackets….never doing a thing to stop the bleeding."
- Lara Logan
The reason is because labor you are underpaying for is a hard thing to let go of? Illegal migrants are great for a capitalist system like ours, because they allow corporations to increase margins and thus their production of capital by paying under market price for labor. Meanwhile, in states with sales tax (most states), these same illegal migrants pay into the tax pot the rest of us benefit from with every purchase they make. To say nothing of helping to pay property taxes via paying rent on apartments, etc.
Illegal migrants only represent a drain on the system if you take a narrow view on some portions of the governmental budget. For corporations, illegal migrants are great. If you'll allow me to extend the metaphor, the monetary incentive to "stop the bleeding" might be there for the paramedics with the ability to use gauze and tourniquets, but not for the people who produce, supply, and ultimately fund the paramedics.
You see, the paramedics are the politicians/government employees in this metaphor
Maybe the metaphor thing was a mistake
Current estimate of their tax base covers less then 18% of taxpayer cost leaving a tab of approx 151 billion a year for legal residents to pay. Citizens are going to bleed out soon!
That's okay, though, because they are creating capital. We have more capital than ever!