Immigration Moral Crisis

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For all the pop romance in Latin America associated with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, few Latinos prefer to immigrate to such communist utopias or to socialist spin-offs like Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, or Peru.
Instead, hundreds of thousands of poor people continue to risk danger to enter democratic, free-market America, which they have often been taught back home is the source of their misery. They either believe that America’s supposedly inadequate social safety net is far better than the one back home, or that its purportedly cruel free market gives them more opportunities than anywhere in Latin America — or both.
Mexico strictly enforces some of the harshest immigration laws in the world that either summarily deport or jail most who dare to cross Mexican borders illegally, much less attempt to work inside Mexico or become politically active.
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could U.S. citizens emulate Washington’s ethics and decide not to pay their taxes, or to disregard traffic laws, or to build homes without permits? Who in the pen-and-phone era of Obama gets to decide which law to follow and which to ignore?
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Pelosi is a multimillionaire,
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What a strange, selfish, and callous alliance of rich corporate grandees, cynical left-wing politicians, and ethnic chauvinists who have conspired to erode U.S. law for their own narrow interests, all the while smearing those who object as xenophobes, racists, and nativists.

The same misguided cabal ignores 600,000 homeless Americans, many veterans, while diverting border security funds for lawyers for illegal immigrants. American citizens have no right to taxpayer funded lawyers for civil matters. Who sets priorities for these illegal uses of taxpayer money?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382335/moral-crisis-our-southern-border-victor-davis-hanson

JULY 10, 2014 12:00 AM
The Moral Crisis on Our Southern Border
A perfect storm of special interests have hijacked U.S. immigration law.
By Victor Davis Hanson