Looking Through Older Eyes - Part III

I have a next-door neighbor who is Mexican by birth and legally immigrated to this country over 30 years ago.  I never asked him if he was an American citizen now and he never volunteered that information.

In a recent discussion about illegal immigration, he believed that our borders should be open to those who want to enter the USA in order to find a better life, even though they:

1. do not speak English
2. do not have any skills
3. do not have any education
4. broke the law to get here

Every person is entitled to their opinion whether you agree with them or not, however, if someone broke the law to get into this country, the odds are they will break the law again now that they are here.

But...   more importantly is the fact that because of their lack of education and skills, they will not get a job paying anything more than minimum wage and with those low wages, they will LIVE IN SLUM CONDITIONS HERE, just like they did before they came here.

And...  while they make be making more money here than they did previously, they will be sending most of that money back home.  That will leave them will less money which will increase the probability that they will continue to be living in slums.

Since...  there are about 10 million illegal immigrants who have already entered the USA, those numbers will collectively cause the QUALITY OF LIFE in the USA to decrease.

WHY?

Because they will consume more than they give back.  They will consume valuable resources from hospitals for instance when they are sick.  They come to this country WITHOUT IMMUNIZATONS which will but the rest of us in medical jeopardy.

We will give them clothes, food, and shelter that was designated for our own homeless citizens.

THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE...  will be Americans that simply do not want the illegal immigrants here and will begin treating them horribly.

As some of the illegal immigrants commit crimes, the animosity towards them will increase and justice will be taken into the hands of some of our citizens who feel that our government has discriminated against them because of all these illegal immigrants.

There will be lawlessness in some parts of our country.

How will we educated the children who do not speak English?

Will we hire teachers that speak both Spanish and English and fire those teachers that do not? 

Illegal Immigration has opened the door to all sorts of problem with which we will be dealing for decades.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE IS WHAT THIS IS CALLED...