Here's my comment:
The irony is that under the hood they're the same issue. Climate change is the direct result of Earth's human population more than quadrupling since 1900.
Earth's human population is now expanding at a rate of over 140 more people every single minute.
If it weren't for overpopulation, we wouldn't be having any effect on the climate.
And immigration? The same. Mexico had 20 million people in 1940. That exploded to over 100 million people by 2000. Mexico lacks the carrying capacity and the social infrastructure to hold that many people.
So Mexico's ruling elite had a bright idea. Encourage Mexico's least literate, least educated peasantry to move to America. If any Americans object, we'll just claim they're racists and they invited them anyway.
Of course most Americans did no such thing. America's richest of the rich invited them, so they could bust the unions and drive down blue collar wages, meanwhile pocketing the profits of their cheap labor while outsourcing their massive social costs to ordinary taxpayers.
They've been abetted in this scheme by the Catholic Church, which has ordered American Catholics to disobey American laws when they conflict with Church doctrine and has shamelessly meddled with our political system in its drive to dominate America as it does Latin America.
The result has been anti-abortionism becoming the only issue millions of Americans care about, while overpopulation has all but disappeared as a social issue.
So it's not the supposed "job magnet." Mexicans didn't come here in earlier years, even though that job magnet was just as strong. They started coming here when overpopulation destroyed Mexico's economy.
And now American liberals have drunk the Kool-Aid, believing that it's somehow America's fault that Mexicans had more children than they could feed. The Mexico's wealthy ruling class laughs at our foolishness.
So overpopulation fuels both climate change and immigration.
And if we had the wits God gave gophers we'd offer to help Mexicans in Mexico--help them establish planned parenthood clinics across the country and, most critically, to implement China's One Child law.
And then, since Mexican overpopulation is not our fault, we should implement a universal biometric ID system and use it to make jobs and social services unavailable to anyone who isn't here legally (except for emergency medical services, followed by prompt deportation).
This is especially critical since Americans consume far more of Earth's resources than the average Mexican in Mexico. So we'll do the planet a favor by making citizens of Mexico return whence they cometh.
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oh geeze. this reminded me of an article from the NYTimes a few days ago about mexicans coming across the border 'fleeing drug violence' at fort hancock, texas. it just stayed in my mind... about 'A 23-year-old woman with five children"
"Her oldest son, a wide-eyed boy of 8, clung to her sleeve and refused to speak. Three girls, ages 4, 2 and 1, played in the desert dust at her feet or climbed on a rusted pickup. She held an infant boy of 7 months.
“All the children, the only thing they know how to play is sicarios,” she said, using the Spanish word for hired killers. "
so she first got pregnant at 14? and except for that unexplained abstinence gap between the first and second child she has been pregnant and having babies for maybe five years? could she be pregnant now?
using a variation of the old quiz show line..... 'COME ON UP'
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/us/18border.html
Yet many Americans, reading this, would conclude that we must give this nice young woman citizenship and food stamps, along with her five children (and no father in sight).
If the Right is heartless...the Left is mindless.
And if we can't take the consequences of our behavior and policies into account, then we aren't much more than talking chimpanzees.
And BTW why don't these human interest stories about "undocumented immigrants" ever--even once--talk about murderous gangbangers immigrating? Or the nice guys who are borrachos--who get drunk and plow into a schoolbus, killing kids left and right? Or the ranchers near the border who don't dare leave their homes at night, and whose property has been trashed by unbelievable amounts of human litter and, er, waste? Or the people whose social security number got stolen and now can't collect Social Security because the Social Security Administration can't tell who's who?
This is how you lie with the truth, by directing people's attention to one thing while completely omitting the other.
'we must give this nice young woman citizenship and food stamps, along with her five children'
.......you left out medical!
in the late 60's and early 70's i was living in berkeley and my idea of vacation was going to mexico for a few weeks. i must have went there 10 times, maybe more. i had been to europe and hated it; mexico was a blast. i have traveled through every state in mexico except oaxaca. i once took a plane from miami to merida in the yucatan and hitchhiked back to california; it took weeks.
i loved it, it was mexico, but at some point i would always think, 'that's enough, i want to go home.' it was one thing to dwell in that culture for awhile and 'get-away', but i did not want to live in it. it's different, it's mexican, and its not american. the good thing was: i could leave it and return to my own country, my own non-mexican country.
now, because i don't want mexico moving here, there are those who suggest i am some variety of right-wing racist. these are always people who have never been to mexico, much less traveled through it at 'ground level'.
i don't know what to say to them. if i say, bluntly, that the mexicans have now shit-in-their-own-nest to the point that it’s unlivable, and since there are no social safety-nets, (not to mention a government) they are now coming to do the same thing here and, as a group, they will not integrate into the american social scheme, but will segregate into mexican communities that eventually, by out-breeding other groups, (and voting in politicians who would gladly use them as their own exploited source for gain just as industry will use them as cheap labor) quickly turn this country into northern mexico, if i say that.... then they are convinced i’m a racist.
oh well.... what’s your line: “If the Right is heartless...the Left is mindless.”
In the late 1960s and early 70s I was living in Berkeley too--mainly a few blocks south of campus near College Avenue (close to the big ugly concrete Newman Center).
And I spent two summers living in Mexico City, the last in 1958--wandered all over by myself, no worries, studying at the U. of Mexico.
Went to the one state you didn't go to--Oaxaca--to Puebla, Taxco, Taxco Viejo, Monte Alban (I was traveling with anthropologists).
And since then I've been in Mexico on scuba diving trips to Cozumel, Cabo San Lucas and La Paz--spent a week in the Mar de Cortez on a Mexican dive boat with my spouse, diving our heads off. The photo on my blog is from one of those trips.
And I speak Spanish. In fact I've had several lengthy conversations in Spanish--in Bali! Met a Mexican family at the Bali Bird Park last year & had a long chat with them. Turned out they were familiar with the books my tia abuela had written about Mexico when she was a prof at the U. of Mexico.
I've been in 17 countries so far, usually off the normal tourist routes.
So when I go off against illegal immigration it's hard for the illegalphiles to accuse me of racism.
But for others with fewer cosmopolitan credentials, check out my illegal immigration entries in this blog's archives. I've got a lot of advice for how to tackle leftist race-baiters.
Lemme know if it helps, or if you have specific things you'd like help with.
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