Legalizing immigration, or legalizing more of it, that is, would erase and ease the very problems associated with illegal immigration.
More immigrants would become taxpayers, no longer receiving social aid without paying into it.
No longer would there be any more reason to pay immigrants under the table than there is to pay anyone else under the table.
Legalizing more immigration levels the playing field. Why would we not want to do this?
But, the biggest benefit might be what it would do to fight crime. Crime coming in from Mexico should be a major concern, the drug cartels moving both drugs and drug runners into our country.
Legalizing more immigration would help fight this problem. Currently, the Mexico cartels seek out those about to cross the the U.S. border. They extort money from them, they press them into joining in as operatives right in Mexico, and they force them to smuggle drugs across the border into the U.S.
As testament, the 72 slain migrant workers a few weeks ago. They were coming from Central and South American countries, venturing through Mexico, and were within just about 100 miles of the U.S. border when a large drug gang came upon them. As the story goes, he hoodians pressed the migrants to join them in crime. The migrants were honorable and said, No, we won't do that -- and so the gangsters massacred them.
Most migrants, though, are saying, Yes. Most of them are seeing the need for help to cross the border in the first place, and if the gangsters are both willing to provide that assistance and spare their lives, then they are quick to sign on.
We are pushing the migrants right into the hands of the enemy. Wouldn't it be better to have them on our side? Wouldn't it be better to have them coming into the U.S. legally, thus not having to join in with the gangs in order to get here?
Wouldn't it be better to spare them from a life of crime, or even a few days of crime (depending on which agreement they make with the cartels)? Wouldn't it be better if instead of sneaking across with drugs, they came right up to the border stations and were checked for drugs and passed into the U.S. without bringing drugs?
The drug cartels would then be forced to do their own drug running, they would be robbed of their "human pack mules."
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