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<< It's Only Human Rights If Pro-American | Main | The Next Internet >> October 13, 2003Tighter Borders- More Undocumented StayHere is the perversity of anti-immigrant policies in the United States-- tighter border patrols have not slowed immigration into the US, but it's made it so expensive to go home that more undocumented immigrants are staying permanently in the US. [From Wall Street Journal] Illegal immigrants are still willing to risk crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico, arriving at a rate of about 400,000 a year, by some estimates. But as the number of border-patrol agents has doubled since 1995, the price of an illegal crossing has roughly tripled to about $1,500 for a three-day trek across the Arizona desert. As a result, many immigrants have cut out much of the back-and-forth travel and decided to stay put in the U.S....Stupid border controls have just helped accelerate the creation of a permanent exploited workforce, without labor rights and a disincentive to return to Mexico when no jobs are available. Posted by Nathan at October 13, 2003 10:59 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsWhat I want to know is why did the # of illegal aliens more than double in a decade? My guess is NAFTA allowing the U.S. to dump subsidized agricultural products in Mexico, thereby making millions of Mexican peasants unable to sustain themselves. Also all those maquiladory factories moving to China. But I don't have hard numbers. "They are also transforming many U.S. communities that used to enjoy the benefits of cheap labor without the problems associated with entrenched communities of low-income workers and their families." Good. Let these commmunities deal with the mess they create. Posted by: Kevin Block-Schwenk at October 13, 2003 11:15 AM Douglas Massey had a nice article about this in The American Prospect a few years ago. (Someone ought to buy the guys over at TAPPED a subscription to that magazine...) Posted by: jw mason at October 13, 2003 12:45 PM CNN's Lou Dobbs just did a lengthy hysterical, Posted by: Andy English at October 13, 2003 06:21 PM "They are also transforming many U.S. communities that used to enjoy the benefits of cheap labor without the problems associated with entrenched communities of low-income workers and their families." Actually, the communities where illegal workers live tend to be working-class communities where people mow their own lawns, clean their own houses and cook their own dinners. Pressure on the housing market tends to be concentrated at the affordable end as well, and the local schools get to deal with the influx of students who speak little or no English. The people who own nasty carnicerķas and ripoff pawnshops, pay their employees under the table and pack tenants like cordwood into substandard housing sleep quietly in their gated communities or McMansions. Posted by: Warren Eckels at October 14, 2003 12:56 AM IT IS REALLY SAD TO SEE ALL THESE POOR MEXICAN BUT THEN I MIGHT CONSIDER TRADING A FEW OF THERE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR ALL ARE LEGAL IGNORAMCES. Posted by: ROY LE KANDER at October 28, 2003 11:06 PM comm. paper Posted by: adam at April 24, 2004 06:35 PM Post a comment
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