Who wins with immigration?

The other side of the immigration argument:

-Mass out-migration has contributed to 40 percent of Mexico’s rural towns and villages suffering a population loss as high as 70 percent.

-The exodus has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of single-parent families, homeless and runaway children - allowing gang membership to proliferate.

-In El Salvador “one out of every five Salvadorans currently lives outside of the country which has provoked an exhaustion of qualified human resources. Draining an already underdeveloped nation of its best and brightest and most motivated and reduces any prospect of establishing a knowledge-based economy.

-This damage adds up to intellectual colonialism, in which the superpower to the north plunders and loots the skilled labor from its poorer neighbors and condemns them to a bleak future.

Waves of mass immigration are taxing our schools, housing, and health care systems in the US. More importantly, the oversupply of labor from illegal immigrants ultimately end up competing with lower-wage earning Americans workers - usually other minorities. How could it not?

Who benefits most? Corporations who want cheap labor. And Democrats who want a voting bloc that is highly dependent on free social services. So if you still think wide-open migration is so wonderful, just know the other half of the story of what you’re advocating for. Shed a tear for the broken families back home. You’re dooming these underdeveloped nations into generations of poverty and strife.

Tom Schenk

Valleyford