Working Should Not be Illegal

It could be argued the jobs you and I have would be available to someone else if we were deported. If one person works, he is always "taking" the job from someone else.

So, let's find a reason for not liking you and me, and kick us out, and the economy will improve. . . . I'm sorry, I don't find that very sound logic.

Here's my thought: Work should not be illegal. The work ethic should not be criminalized, but encouraged. Let the working class come to America. And, if we really feel we must send someone packing back to the country they came from, let's try to hold on to these, the ones who just want to work. Who would think America would criminalize such a thing? Often they are the poor, seeking no more than an honest-day's work. Instead of cutting these people off, wouldn't we be better served to screen out someone else? Maybe go after the dishonest, or those who come in with criminal records, or those who commit crimes when they get here, or those who come just seeking to get on our welfare programs?
But, those who come in search of a better life, wanting no more than to work? Are these the people we would criminalize?

Whenever we find our government is making honest work illegal, we should cringe, and change the law. Whenever the government is regulating people out of work (other than for such things as prostitution), we should find it to be a cause we cannot support -- especially when these people are often the poor and needy amongst us. If America is so set on putting the poor and needy out of jobs, we are not as great of a nation as we think we are, and as we ought to be, for is it not just a little corrupt to make it illegal for the poor and needy to work? It displays a wrong set of values.

Now, I'm sure some would say what is corrupt, it to allow them to work ahead of those who are here, abiding the laws -- to allow them to take jobs from those who are Americans. We simply have a difference of opinion on what is corrupt, and I while I think you have a misplaced position, and mistakenly favor that which might be considered "corrupt," you, yourself, are not corrupt. I know many who are against the illegal residents who are far from corrupt and wonderful, caring people.

But, yes, I do maintain the principle is corrupt. To take people who are dirt-poor, yet willing and begging to work . .. and make it illegal for them to work? To say, No, you are not worthy? What is up with that? Why would we treat them that way? Could this not be considered kicking someone while they're down?

If those who oppose the undocumented residents oppose them for other reasons -- not opposing them their work ethic -- then, let them prove it by going after them for those other reasons. Leave the worker alone. And, if they oppose them because they are taking jobs from someone else, let them consider that for every job these immigrants take, they create another. While they live among us, they buy our food, and buy our entertainment. You might argue they are too poor to buy enough to create another job. Fine. But I don't think you seriously want to kick someone out of the country because they are not making a good enough living to qualify to live here.

Those who argue immigrants are taking jobs from others might be best suited in an economy of one. Then, no one can take their job from them.