Illegal Immigration remains Illegal

Illegal Immigration remains Illegal

US does not want to recognize illegal residents as its Citizens. Illegal immigrants do a lot of work for cheap. They do not have social security, retirement plans, health insurance plans. All they want is some quick bucks to survive. When you are faced with a calamity, the immediate need for you is to come out of the challenge. They are willing to work for extra hours for almost negligible pay. Their standard of living is very low when compared to an average American,. But it still provides better livelihood for them here in US than staying idle in Mexico. The advantages of citizenship are that they can get so called social security, and Medicare benefits, which are anyway at a very late stage in a life of an individual.

Its not that America cannot stop these illegal immigrant. If you possess resources to put an apple on Mars, it is conceivable that you can easily build a fence in your backyard, or if you can enforce peace in middle-east it should be fairly easy to secure your border in south. Americans have benefited from this cheap labor being imported from Mexico. This cheap labor imported in droves from the south has been an economic engine for US for more than a decade. They help US economy running by keeping the costs low and hence keep US products competitive vis-à-vis east. Most of the American citizens has either directly or indirectly benefited from this cheaper labor.

On its part, Mexico did not make any right moves to merit a comment on the recent failure of immigration bill. If it has a will to try for fairer treatment for Mexican Americans, it should have taken some positive measures that could have encouraged policy makers in Washington to go forward with the immigration bill (or anti-immigration whatever). If Mexico could have taken some measures to stymie this flow, fencing the border of US and Mexico, by the way it is securing its own border too, or willingness to control illegal immigration quid qua pro for citizenship of its six millions illegal immigrants, it could have lent some voice in recent immigration imbroglio.

No body in their right frame of mind would have expected the bill to be passed. The bill never looked to succeed as it has too many concessions gift wrapped to serve enough reasons for its eventual failure. In the end the status quo of inhumanity thrived at the expense of tax payers money. Politicians used their valuable time to fight for the legal Mexican votes wasting their citizens money. This could have dampened the spirits and aspirations of at least twelve million illegal immigrants, but may be only for the optimistic of the optimistic of them for being too optimistic. It only proved that both countries have no will at the political levels to put an end to this inhumanity. Who cares when both parties are at benefit? only for those twelve million lives to ponder.