An editorial in Wednesday's NYT has this interesting phrase, " ...illegal immigrants without criminal records," decrying the deportation of illegals for doing nothing more than violating the nation's immigration laws and entering the country illegally.
Now, Ned has remarked earlier that the NYT, an otherwise relatively logical organization, has a logical blind spot when it comes to illegal immigration, not to mention "legal" immigration. The Times never met an immigrant they didn't like. Now Ned on the other hand, is neutral on immigration, feeling a best solution would be to allow as many folks into the country as voluntarily leave each year, around 200,000. He really doesn't see why this country should be in the business of importing people, most of whom have no education or skills, and thus will be competing for scarce jobs with our unskilled high schoolers and high school dropouts, driving many of our minorities into a life of crime and drug addiction, while others will have excellent skills who will be depriving their home country, which after all usually educated them, of their talents. Ned finds it unseemly, degrading and tasteless on the part of a Great Power to be enticing the best and brightest from other countries to come here, which helps perpetuate the cycles of poverty and hopelessness that prompts some desperate people to risk their lives to come here in the first place. Moreover, he finds it reprehensible that illegals can sneak in, have children that then become citizens, and obtain welfare and Medicaid that hard-working or job-seeking citizens may have a hard time getting.
He finds himself in rare agreement with Lindsay Graham, a right-wing Republican from South Carolina, that we should fix the hole in the 14th Amendment that allows this travesty to occur.
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