Heart-breaking Stories

There are a lot of heart-breaking stories in the world —this is one of them. Not long ago, US Border Patrol agents discovered 80 illegal immigrants living in a makeshift encampment near the South Texas city of McAllen. They were living in an undeveloped patch of scrub not far from an abandoned tennis club. They were living under lean-to shelters and canvas tents, camouflaged with mesquite branches and cacti. They were sleeping on pieces of cardboard. Food and water was scarce, and their crude latrines were unhealthfully close to their living positions.

There are two factors that relate to illegal immigration. We refer to them as “push-pull” factors —the things that push them away form their land of legal birth and citizenship, and the things that attract them toward the place where they are living illegally. Unfortunately, we have an idiot in the White House these days that seems not to understand the consequences of his poorly contrived policies.

• Illegal aliens are attracted to the United States is our exceptional medical facilities, to which illegal aliens can seek and receive quality medical care at no cost to themselves. They have their children in border area hospitals, which makes their children legal citizens of the United States —and eligible for welfare services.

• Illegal aliens also try to avail themselves of employment opportunities, often at less than the minimum wage. This is mostly okay with illegal aliens because even less than the minimum wage here provides them with nearly four times the income back home in Mexico (or other Central American nations).

As for the push factors ... who in their right mind wants to live in Mexico (or other Central American nations)? In the words of one illegal alien named Alfredo Espinoza Rivera, arrested at the camp described above, “I’m very scared to go home to my country. There is too much crime; it is hard to live there.”

As I said, heart-breaking. But the fact is that we cannot absorb everyone in the world who is unhappy, or sick, or persecuted, or threatened, or whose children play in toxic waste. It is up to the people of Mexico to transform their country into a nation they can live in, grow in, and be productive in. The cruel joke is to suggest or tell potential illegal aliens differently, such as distributing flyers in the Spanish language informing Mexican citizens about US food stamp programs in the United States —in Mexico. But this is what progressives do...

Encouraging illegal immigration creates problems, rather that solve them and there is a punishing price for these poor souls to pay once they get here. That is to say, if they get here. Coyotes scam these transients for their last peso and assault, rape, and murder many of them en route to America. But this doesn’t appear to bother Obama or Biden, either ... both of whom actively encourage illegal trespass. And, in my view, this makes Obama and Biden guilty of aiding and abetting criminal behavior.

But if our hearts ache for these unfortunate people, what can we do for them?

We can send them home and insist that they solve the problems that plague them in Mexico. After all, the disgrace which is Mexico is their problem, not ours. Only Mexicans can solve Mexico’s problems. Oh, I suppose we could provide them with arms and munitions, train a few of them in the art and science of guerilla warfare. Hell, if we can do it for the Libyans, why not for our next-door neighbors? An extreme idea, you say? Well, actually the notion is no more extreme than the fact that tens of millions of illegal aliens are in this country, at Obama’s invitation, and residing here contrary to our laws, and at our expense.