Why is it so difficult for Americans to 'discuss' immigration?

This topic has been difficult for me to find a starting point. I started out trying to talk about another aspect. However I kept coming back to this one word, immigration. I feel that I have to discuss this one first before I can tackle any of the other topics that spider web out from here. So here goes…

 

            My biggest aggravation with this issue is why nobody brings up the cause of why this has gotten so out of hand, you know the root cause. This was businesses trying to save a buck and there fore hiring immigrants for various reasons. Businesses therefore influenced the governments, both Mexican and American, to enact uncontrollable, short sighted and expensive immigration policies. I was doing some research on the internet about what this topic and came across a great study from the Center for Immigration Studies titled Flawed Assumptions Underlying Guest worker Programs. here is another study, The Impact of Agriculture Guest Worker Programs conducted by The National Foundation of American Policy. Now I haven’t personally read both of these studies all the way through, so I don’t know what kind of a bias is in them, or even if it’s partisan. There is a lot of underlying emotion that is going to inevitably come out. This touches so many of us in ways that we haven’t thought about. I’m getting the vibe that there is a lot of resentment brewing underneath the surface of this country. True that all of these workers, which are coming mostly from Mexico, are illegal aliens, they are already here. We should have addressed this issue back in the 1980’s when it originally came up.  

            So now we have over eight million workers that have established themselves here, and started families. Poor people are good at that. What do does the government do? Deport the parents that have come here illegally? Then you’ll have a fiasco like that kid back in the 1998 that was getting deported to Cuba, to rejoin his father. Would we just give the INS a blank check so that we could assure success? Do we separate the children from their parents thus unnecessarily increasing the burden on our social services, which the parents didn’t pay for in the first place? You and I both know that this is not the answer. If you didn’t understand why this is so emotionally moving for people, then maybe you can appreciate it now. Anything that involves blood is going to cloud most rational judgment.

            When it comes to the migrants that had to wait in line to come here from all the other countries that aren’t mexico. You know the guys that didn’t sneak across the border in the dead of night. They are extremely resentful of the policies that let this happen, and rightfully so. It’s really not fair that some people had to play by the rules and the a lot of other people didn’t. However it’s not all the immigrants faults’. I believe most of the blame lies with the government, not all of it mind you. We the people need to step up and take responsibility for what we have not wanted to thus far. Now that we are being forced to talk about this issue and deal with it, I believe there is a certain amount of anger and frustration in the fact that it is being forced upon on us by terms that we don’t necessarily agree with. It’s the terms that are being imposed upon us that we are resentful of by far. I know I like to deal with challenges on my terms, who doesn’t.

We all hate to be forced into things, unfortunately now we have to talk about this and try to check our emotions at the door. I don’t pretend to know anything which I discuss here. I just give my two cents. I do know that this is something that needs to be addressed soon, because it is only going to get worse. We can’t change the past and we can’t predict the future, we can however influence it. We need to learn that we cannot control or plan for everything. The road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.