My Country: Punish the Poor Immigrant, Welcome the Rich Immigrant.

Have you ever been in the situation of driving a very sick or injured friend or family member to a hospital with a life threatening injury or illness?  I'm guessing speed limits and stop signs suddenly had a lower priority.  Not that you wanted to drive so carelessly that you hurt yourself, others or even the person being rescued, but if you could just slow down and safely get through an intersection with a stop sign, that was good enough.  Screw the rules when something more important is at stake.

That's how I see immigration policy.  First, its just chance which side of the Rio Grande you were born on.  I am no better a person than someone born on the other side either.  I do not deserve a better life, I am not smarter, better, or more entitled than someone born on the other side.  Second, if they wake up everyday and look at their hungry and perhaps shoeless children and feel no hope for changing their plight, I identify with their urge to look for hope -- even if they run a few stop signs or cross a river to take the best chance they have in changing their world and the world their children live in.

Its sad, but many Mexicans have decided that getting $2 or $3 an hour in America working 14 hours a day in the back of Pat's Pizza washing dishes or making pizzas is the best shot they have in beating the cards stacked against them.  I grew up in El Paso and I have known many of the 11 million Mexicans that now live in this country, half of them illegal.  As a group, I found them hard working, family oriented and fighting hard to enjoy the American Dream.   Yea, they are not perfect, they are just people, just like you and me running a few stop signs now and then.

Since Obama has been in office, we have deported 2 million illegals back home.  There was supposed to be an effort to deport only those that committed a serious crime.  Of course, being deported before was considered a serious crime.  Oops.  Lots of Mexicans have tried multiple times to enter this country to find the American Dream, hence committing a serious crime by this directive.  Yep, they ran through multiple stop signs on the way to American Dream.

Have you heard of EB-1 Visas.  They are issued to immigrants with special skills, like super programmer guys or similar.  Google et al would like to hire more of the million or so foreigners that are educated in our colleges each year.  But, nope Congress is not going to let that happen.  We don't want to have all those smart kids making America a better place.  Makes you wonder what the average IQ is of a congressman.

Have you heard of EB-5 Visas.  It's for rich people.  Anyone that invests $0.5 million in an American business that creates 10 jobs for two years can come to America.  Then you can become a citizen. That's right, you can buy citizenship.  Guess who takes advantage of EB-5's.  The rich upper class from China.  The business doesn't have to be profitable or sustainable, in short, it doesn't have to be a real business.  This Visa gives the rich class in China the ability to hedge their bets, if things go poorly in China, if China becomes a Mexico with its drug wars or similar, the rich who are creating a country that has wealth inequality equal with the U.S., can leave.

So, let's judge our country's morals by our actions.  A poor man seeking a better life in America is deported and will be punished by most of the immigration reforms proposed by Republicans, but rich Chinese that are profiting from being part of the elite in a very corrupt system are welcomed.   We point to the stop signs the poor man has run through in trying to help his family and ignore the way the rich man got his wealth. What does that say about our country?  $$$$ = Right.