Here’s another angle to letting the “free market” decide, if that is the primary point of your column: no one gets social services unless they prove they are legal. Before the days of welfare, if you sneaked in, OR were here legally, you either made it or went home. Generations ago some of my families members having arrived from Europe found that life here was a little too “rugged” for their tastes and they left. Good riddance. Not so anymore. So if Juan comes here and then either has children or brings in the extended family, WE get to support them on OUR money without their having our permission to do so. The left LOVES Darwin but when it comes to survival of the fittest, they want US to pay for the unfit and the unwanted. If you really take the idea of a “free market” solution to this problem, most would go home because their skills are not in demand and they would be getting nothing from the public’s purse. And that’s how it should be.
