The illegal immigrant next door

Read this. You owe it to yourself to understand the current politics surrounding immigration. Many of us have friends that are illegal immigrants.

For the last 20 years, the U.S. has had a hypocritical system of denying entry to Mexicans knowing full well they would come in illegally. You don't believe me? For those 20 years, business law stated you had to collect Social Security Numbers to pay taxes, but there was no need to actually check if they were valid.

So in Mexico, this is what people were taught: The U.S. wants you to come work and work illegally; this benefits their economy. It did benefit the economy. Why? Because it created a lower-class people within the U.S. (similar to slaves) who could be worked for little pay and had no rights. The economy grew and grew, with the small setback of illegals using a hospital without insurance everyonce in awhile.

Why do I say the illegals have no rights?

Let's say you're a poor illegal-immigrant woman. You might be married and have children. You have good credit. You have a house. You have a good job. You work hard, but it's worth it to live in the U.S. Then one day, your manager treats you wrongly. In fact, he takes advantage of you. He rapes you. Do you call the police? What if they find out your illegal? You might lose everything!

The easy way out for the U.S. is to not deal with these issues. Get on a high horse and say you came in "illegally" so get out. Let's put up a fence.

I'm all for the fence idea. We need to keep drugs out, terrorists out, etc.

But after the fence, give the people already in the country a chance. Let them stay. Let them come out of the dark. Also, as long as there are jobs available, open up immigration. When there aren't anymore jobs, they'll stop coming and go somewhere else. We all would do the same as them. I know I would.

I'm not an immigration lawyer, but I have illegal immigrant friends, and those are my thoughts.