 Diplomacy And Immigration: Left of Center View Should diplomatic relations between governments and their various treaties have a tangible impact on immigration. Well of course they should... and of course they shouldn’t. The problem with all politics is that every now and then people and reality always seem to get in the way. Governments have never done a very good job of drawing lines in the sand, or of building their walls in the right places. Millions of family’s were cut in half by the Berlin wall, the eradication of which is one of the greatest symbols of our victory in the Cold War. Supposedly President Reagan’s crowing achievement was the pulling down of that symbol of oppression and re-uniting the people of East Germany with their friends and family in the West. President Bush wants to build his own wall, and he’s using pretty much the same fear tactics the Russians did to justify doing it. Here’s where the whole diplomatic / immigration thing gets a little sticky. We don’t have very good relations with Cuba, but we do with Mexico and Canada. For a while there we were letting the Cubans in just because they were Cuban and keeping the Mexicans out for what, because they weren’t Cubans? Now we pretty much don’t want to let any Latinos into the country because they will be a drain on our social resources and not contribute much to the economy. In fact they’ll TAKE OUR JOBS. Then we get all pissed off when the Canadians don’t want to let us into their country for the exact same reason. If the U.S. does re-instate the draft so that Halliburton can expand its operations to North Korea the Canadians may have to build their own wall. This is all with the countries we have good diplomatic relations with. What about the folks we don’t get along so well with. According to the Chinese government all of their citizens are extremely happy and don’t want to leave, but somehow we still find hundreds trying to immigrate to the U.S., in cargo containers. We flatter ourselves by thinking that all of these folks from third world countries, or countries with third world conditions, are killing themselves to come to America, but let’s be truthful they’re simply trying to escape from where they are. No matter what the diplomatic status between governments is people will always try and find a better life. Perhaps instead of worrying about a person’s country of origin we should worry about the people themselves. We should examine each and every immigration application and decide whether or not to let the person immigrate based solely on the individual and their potential contributions to society. Families who have been divided by government lines should be allowed to reunite under a common citizenship. The only time diplomacy should enter into the equation is during the extradition process. Kyle Pesonen - Staff Writer | E-mail Comments on this column. Got a liberal viewpoint? We want to know what you think. Next week's subject: Standards for Legal Immigration Send in your view from the Left to be our featured Left of Center View for the week. Click here to submit your article. Last Week's View from the Left: Gangs; Importing Criminals Previous Weeks Views from the Left: Cultural Migration Tariffs and Fair Trade Open Borders and the American Worker ICE Raids Detain Thousands of Innocent People Political Activism and Illegal Immigration Integrating Other Cultures Into the American Dream Employing Undocumented Workers Bilingual Education The Minutemen Driver's Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants Open Borders Sanctuary Cities Common Sense Laws Rise & Fall Outsourcing & Insourcing English Amnesty vs. Reality Defining Immigration |
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