Dear Editor:
I disagree with the writer's premise. If you think people are coming here just to work, abolish family immigration. Then see millions of undocumenteds coming here just to be with family members who are here working. One fact that is largely ignored is that a significant percentage of Mexican immigrants, who make up a majority of the undocumented people here, would prefer to come here, work for a while, and then go back to Mexico to buy the property that is out of their reach considering Mexico’s low wages and high unemployment rate. Our immigration laws don’t permit them to do that. It is so hard to get here, and leaving makes it so much harder, legally, to come back in, that they realize that if they leave they may never be able to come back. So they stay. Furthermore, the breakup of Mexican families because of this situation creates further "illegal" immigration because family members start to miss each other. Dad cannot go back to Mexico, so Mom, kids, grandparents, etc., come here to keep him company. The logical solution is to greatly increase the ability of these people to come here, work a couple years, leave, and still be able to come back in the future. We would also need to allow family members freedom to come in and visit. But this is a political problem because of an irrational fear here that "they" will come here in huge numbers, and stay, such that they will soon outnumber "us."
I could write a book on why I disagree with the writer, but I’m not ready to commit that much time, yet.
AW
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