08-31-2007, 09:20 PM
Quote:My point is that we should target immigration leading to citizenship for people that are already able to contribute to the economy and pay their fair share or those who join the armed forces and pre-pay their debt to our country, rather than those who will languish for generations below the poverty line.
The evidence appears to indicate that they are pulling their own weight. By and large, they work long hours at crappy jobs producing things for American businesses. They do this because wages in Mexico at the bottom are terrible.
What does it matter, from a libertarian perspective, that they will be poor for generations? They are not 'languishing.' They are becoming the working poor. But if they choose that, that's their choice. They make it based on their perspective, not yours.
If the argument is simply legalistic, that 'these are the rules, and they should be followed because they are the rules', then fine. But that argument is not the same as the ones you're making.
-Jester