BuddyRey
Member
- Joined
- May 20, 2007
- Messages
- 11,172
There is an illegal immigration crisis plaguing the U.S. today, but the remedy proposed by most closed-border advocates is, unbeknownst to them, the entire cause of the crisis to begin with.
Our Immigration system is cumbersome, unwieldy, expensive, and riddled with quotas and double standards. I know because of a near first-hand experience with this grossly inefficient system.
True story: About six years ago, my dad met a resident-alien South Korean gentleman named Mr. Park, befriended him, and soon grew enamored with the prospect of starting a martial arts school with him. Mr. Park is a 5th degree Grand Master in Tae Kwon Do, with certificates and accolades galore from almost every major Tae Kwon Do academy in the world, including The Kukkiwan in Korea. He's one of only about 50 men in the entire country with his extensive accreditations, so we assumed getting his green card and other papers in order would be a breeze...right?
Well...not exactly.
First, Mr. Park was told he'd need a sponsor. Of course, my dad was more than willing to vouch for his prospective business partner, so this wasn't much of a hurdle. But in the ensuing months, all manner of application fees, processing fees, immigration attorney gratuities, and assorted hoops he had to jump through because of the government's monopoly on Immigration and Naturalization, ended up costing us around twenty-thousand American dollars.
What we were putting out to get Mr. Park's green card was just barely enough to keep our heads above water financially, because, as most entrepreneurs know, the first three years of a new business are usually the most trying and least profitable. All of these exorbitant fees for immigration bureaucrats ended up bankrupting our school. It folded after two years, meaning that all we paid in to the process ended up being for naught anyway. Mr. Park is living in another state now, my dad hasn't been able to get back on his feet since, and we ended up losing far more money from our venture than we took in from tuition during the school's brief history.
The Immigration bureaucracy stifles entrepreneurship, harms the economy, stagnates the creation of wealth, and hurts far more people than it has ever helped! It's time to realize that our country's immigration problem is caused not by ruthless scofflaws who get their jollies from spitting on our national heritage. It is caused by a corrupt and ineffectual governmental behemoth that exacts brutal and exploitative fees on human beings (many of whom have families, hopes, and dreams just like us) and preys on the desperation of Third-World refuse frantic to escape the Hell of plutocratic dictatorships or pestilential war-zones.
Just like outlawing guns insures that only outlaws will possess them, placing excessive strictures on the flow of the destitute into a rich and free nation insures that those among them who do harbor criminal intent will be over-represented in the numbers of such people who do finally get here illegally. That is why we've seen such an explosion of Latino gangland violence on our streets. The Latino population in the United States is over-represented by those whose regard for the law was not sufficient to bar their illegal entry into this country.
Our Immigration system is cumbersome, unwieldy, expensive, and riddled with quotas and double standards. I know because of a near first-hand experience with this grossly inefficient system.
True story: About six years ago, my dad met a resident-alien South Korean gentleman named Mr. Park, befriended him, and soon grew enamored with the prospect of starting a martial arts school with him. Mr. Park is a 5th degree Grand Master in Tae Kwon Do, with certificates and accolades galore from almost every major Tae Kwon Do academy in the world, including The Kukkiwan in Korea. He's one of only about 50 men in the entire country with his extensive accreditations, so we assumed getting his green card and other papers in order would be a breeze...right?
Well...not exactly.
First, Mr. Park was told he'd need a sponsor. Of course, my dad was more than willing to vouch for his prospective business partner, so this wasn't much of a hurdle. But in the ensuing months, all manner of application fees, processing fees, immigration attorney gratuities, and assorted hoops he had to jump through because of the government's monopoly on Immigration and Naturalization, ended up costing us around twenty-thousand American dollars.
What we were putting out to get Mr. Park's green card was just barely enough to keep our heads above water financially, because, as most entrepreneurs know, the first three years of a new business are usually the most trying and least profitable. All of these exorbitant fees for immigration bureaucrats ended up bankrupting our school. It folded after two years, meaning that all we paid in to the process ended up being for naught anyway. Mr. Park is living in another state now, my dad hasn't been able to get back on his feet since, and we ended up losing far more money from our venture than we took in from tuition during the school's brief history.
The Immigration bureaucracy stifles entrepreneurship, harms the economy, stagnates the creation of wealth, and hurts far more people than it has ever helped! It's time to realize that our country's immigration problem is caused not by ruthless scofflaws who get their jollies from spitting on our national heritage. It is caused by a corrupt and ineffectual governmental behemoth that exacts brutal and exploitative fees on human beings (many of whom have families, hopes, and dreams just like us) and preys on the desperation of Third-World refuse frantic to escape the Hell of plutocratic dictatorships or pestilential war-zones.
Just like outlawing guns insures that only outlaws will possess them, placing excessive strictures on the flow of the destitute into a rich and free nation insures that those among them who do harbor criminal intent will be over-represented in the numbers of such people who do finally get here illegally. That is why we've seen such an explosion of Latino gangland violence on our streets. The Latino population in the United States is over-represented by those whose regard for the law was not sufficient to bar their illegal entry into this country.
