Where is Mr. Hudson on immigration? Hard to tell reading this article.
With respect to the decrease in the quality of the service at Chipotle restaurants, in a truly free market there would be no minimum wage. The minimum wage is one of the Government’s attempts to influence the free market with the predictable distortion in the market that results but that’s getting off topic. Chipotle management, as is any non union free enterprise, has the opportunity to set the example for it’s work force by training it to meet its established criteria for customer service and firing those who do not, can not or refuse to measure up. Are we to believe that only illegal immigrants from Mexico can meet these standards?
It is apparent that they are more likely motivated by the prospect of finding meaningful work in other than the country of their birth accompanied with the numerous social benefits also unavailable to them in their native Mexico. Why does any foreign national come here exclusive of those miscreants motivated by nefarious purposes and it is this latter that is perhaps the bigger issue regarding illegal immigration. No one, other than a bigoted, racist minority, is against anyone of any color or religion willing to adapt to the American culture and honor the principles of our founding documents but America has laws already on the books intended to control this process and why is it too much to ask that all immigrants respect and abide by these laws?
The system is not flawed. It is enforcement of the existing laws that has been compromised and that has resulted in the dilemma we now find ourselves in. And like so much else that has twisted this nation into knots all of it is motivated by the insatiable appetite in the U.S. federal and state capitols for political power and financial gain. What is in the nations best interest is at best a secondary issue.
And, excuse the politically incorrect question, but what about the quality of this mass influx from Mexico? Religious, hard working, largely law abiding if the illegal immigration aspect is removed from the equation, but typically uneducated and given no encouragement or motivation to learn the English language. An outrageous comment for some no doubt but that America is on a technological decline as a result of the “wonderfulness” of the greatest of the liberal achievements, diversity and political correctness, is arguable but, in my view, largely true. Equality of outcomes is a road to mediocrity. That Obama and his progressive leftists are obsessed with this utopian, intellectual, theoretical exercise in social engineering, if allowed to succeed, is the hopeless change he promised in October 08.
Mexicans should be allowed to emigrate to America but on the same terms and with the same restrictions as émigrés from every other country. But, as with citizens from other nations around the world, there is an alternate and, to many, a preferable path to alleviate oppression and seize the natural human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that is from within their mother country. Millions of Americans, men and women from every race, creed and country of origin have fought and died to acquire and protect those rights we enjoy as American citizens and they are not to be given away lightly. Mexico may be more rife with corruption as a result of the lucrative drug trade and human trafficking but according to Wikipedia, “[t]he politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system, whereby the president of Mexico is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. The federal government represents the United Mexican States and is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial, as established by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, published in 1917. The constituent states of the federation must also have a republican form of government based on a congressional system as established by their respective constitutions.”
It took the United States 250 years to evolve into the political and social magnet it’s become. Mexico has the political framework in place since 1917, is not involved in any major territorial disputes or wars and should be following suit creating the environment that made their northern neighbor such a success. It’s time to stop the coddling and excuses and to exercise a little tough love. Closing the border should be step one. We’ll not likely eliminate the American demand for drugs which is admittedly a major part of Mexico’s problem but dealing with that problem from within will become a lot easier once the border is effectively closed and the profiteering on that trade on the Mexican side dries up.
