From: Luis Felipe Molina [mailto:lfmolinat@sulanet.net]
Date: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:15 AM
To: vice_president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: LAW AND ORDER AT THE SOUTH BORDER
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of their journey) dream of getting back to their families. Many illegal immigrants are
unmarried sons and daughters who would not stay unemployed in the US.
In summary, the quantity of foreigners who come and decide they wish to stay in the
US is a self-regulating number –by net effects of demand and supply in labor
markets. A TWSP should suffice for order and control. If a wall was built, the gates
would need to be open to let pass about the same amounts that would come alone any
way. Why then build a wall which will not be used to decrease the economic number
of immigrant workers?
If a wall is needed at the South border in response to security reasons, another wall needs
to be built at the North border: Terrorism would retain individuals of any ethnic look –
Caucasian, Latin, etc. So if the two walls, the North wall and the South wall, are needed
for defense, they should be built simultaneously as not to insult the neighbors of the south
–Mexican, Central Americans and South Americans –fellows of the rest of the American
continent.
Regarding other criminal activities besides terrorism, if only the South wall was built,
drug dealers may divert to the Northern border –because as the drug traffic is more
difficult, higher prices of drugs may tend to increase the amounts of drug money resulting
in increased criminal capabilities.
Getting back to less pessimistic reasons, the more the US economy develops and the
US population grows, the more immigrant workers needed to help in preserving
labor productivity, economic stability and prosperity. This can happen, and
therefore should happen, without excessive Government intervention: Human
needs, both of foreigners and nationals, and economic and sociological trends will
alone do most of the balancing.
Allowing foreigners to come to get the jobs they cannot obtain in their countries is good
for all – citizens, companies and governments of all countries in the American continent.
It not only supports the US economy, but it also serves to strengthen our political and
economic system.
(4) Another point is that a substantial part of this problem is a matter of reciprocal
economic and sociological adaptation in an evolving world. And this problem also is a
matter of humanitarian reactions –brain and hart; but, above all, this situation reminds
us that our God commands us to be generous (ex.: 1 Thessalonians 5:14). Besides, like
any human group, Latin Americans are beautiful persons too –both in the inside and
externally, and unfold a rich cultural diversity.
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