NationStates Jolt Archive


...And now this?

Castilandia
30-12-2005, 01:28
The House of Representatives of the United States has approved new legislation aimed at illegal immigration, this includes a project -currently under construction- of building a separating wall of more than 1000mk long along the border with Mexico.

Around 60%+ of America's industrial make-up is composed by the services sector. Increasingly, Hispanics are becoming more and more crucial in this sector, be it because Americans don't want to do the jobs that Hispanics do or simply because the country needs to fill these vacancies so badly that they'll employ anyone, including hispanics (who have now outnumbered the African-American population of the US). The Question is: America doesn't want to live with them (Hispanics) but can it live without them?

The Mexican president called this "a shameful act" while the Guatemalan Vice-president told the BBC the following: " We think that this is a true offence against the whole of Latin America in that ONE Gorvernment who call themselves "our friends" and "colleagues" of the region only want our money, our resources and our stocks and reserves but only manage to see our people as an epidemic"..." We are treated as if we were from some kind of sub-hemisphere full of criminals"

Why is America, a land of immigrants from all over the world (only 1% of the pop can call themselves NATIVE AMERICANS) trying to depict Hispanics as some kind of "plague"? Why is America, trying to build a wall along a territory that was once part of Mexico itself, (for it was stolen) thus part of Latin America? Why are hispanics called Aliens? Are Hispanics really that harmful. America would collapse if their native countries suddenly got richer and people started to go back to their homelands. Why then, is America trying to block this people who simply want to work honestly (most of the time they work for less than the average wage) from entering its borders? How would it feel if it was the other way round? and what is really ironic is that now American is closing its doors on their own "back yard" (<<<how humiliating!!:headbang::( ) Could this simply be a matter of "national security" or is it that Washington is finally experiencing a "break-away" or "fissure" from, and encouraged by the leaders of it's backyard that seems too hard to mend due to its 125-year-long notorious foreign policy on the region which seems to be back-firing at the beginnig of the 21st century?

I'll leave that down to you!
Steel Butterfly
30-12-2005, 01:32
Illegal immigrants are a strain on society and a nation's economy, and the oppertunity exists that these immigrants could be terrible criminals (ala Scarface) and what we need is a way to keep track of them.

...that being said...

This belongs in general...not NationStates.