I don't hate Hispanics. Let's get that out of the way right now. I actually like them and am grateful. Let's be honest. I live, like a lot of people, in a city. In NYC 90% of my food is delivered by Hispanics. My pizza ... made by Hispanics. My house cleaner ... Hispanic. So how can I sit here and say "No Immigration Reform." Because I'm saying no immigration reform, not no Hispanics. The reason I'm not in favor of immigration reform has absolutely nothing to do with the rule of law. And I don't think Hispanics are drug traffikers with cantalope-sized calves. (What an idiot by the way!)
The reason I'm against immigration reform is economic. Let's look at the immigrants of the past.
Blacks (forced enslaved immigrants) were brought here for economic reasons. The racism was layered on top of economic reasons later to give a moral justification to a morally reprehensible act. But the economic reason was simple: America was a land of bounty, so much so that Columbus wrote that when he looked at the forest squirrels could walk from tree to tree without jumping and never have to touch the ground. It was astonishing.
But someone had to clear those trees and build on that land. They needed free labor, not cheap, because you couldn't pay someone enough to do that volume and that type of work. They tried the Irish but the harsh temperature killed them. They tried American Indians but they either didn't have the skill set to be farmers or they killed themselves. Then after observing a particular group of Africans who were farmers who could also bring their goods to market Africans were chosen. That they were Black was a fact that was used for demarcation.
This in no way justifies slavery. Slavery is a moral abdication on too many levels to count. This is simply to explain the morbid economic justification for it. It was Americas first horrid attempt at using immigration to meet the needs of a labor market. May God forgive our Country and the Souls of our Ancestors and let our other Ancestors rest in peace.
After the American atrosity, Americans began building with free market labor and our own hands. The Irish arrived in large number in the 1820s. That happened due to the large industrial projects going on in the Northeast, i.e. the Erie Canal and rise of other great cities. The Chinese Americans arrived in 1840 - 1880 in order to help settle the West during the Gold Rush and to build the Railroads that helped make America great. The Italians arrived after the Civil War, encouraged by the American Government, due to the labor shortage created by the sheer brutality of the Civil War.
The point is simple. Every group in America was brought here for one purpose. The purpose was work.
The business of America has been and always will be business. We need laborers, we open our doors. We don't. We won't. Everything else is just window dressing aside from political asylum which goes to how we view ourselves.
Now the second wave of Hispanics have arrived. But unfortunately they've arrived at a terrible period of time. We are in the Information Age. It's what allows a factory of 300 to make more cars than a factory of 3,000 could 50 years ago. It what allows one office worker to do the work of four. Technology has reduced the need for human labor. Don't believe me.
Watch this:
Why do you need new labor when this thing can do the same work of 20 people. Automation will get faster and faster. If you can do this with lettuce you can do it with any farm vegetable. It gets twice the lettuce in half the time with half the people and this is only the first version. This will only get worse and worse.
McDonalds eventually will run an entire restaurant with two people using iPads to order and machines to cook. Restaurants will cut staff in half due to automation. Coal mines, saw mills, ... the list goes on and on.
There is no stopping this trend.
Unfortunately that's why there is no need for a large labor pool of unskilled workers. We are having a lot of trouble employing low skilled Americans today. What will happen to 20,000,000 brand new low skilled workers. It'll be a fight for those least prepared for this age of automation. And I can promise you there will be blood.
We don't need low skilled immigration reform. Not because it's racist. Not because they are drug dealers (Steve King), not because we're bad people. But because the business of America is business. And right now the sign on the window says "Not Hiring."
The reason I'm against immigration reform is economic. Let's look at the immigrants of the past.
Blacks (forced enslaved immigrants) were brought here for economic reasons. The racism was layered on top of economic reasons later to give a moral justification to a morally reprehensible act. But the economic reason was simple: America was a land of bounty, so much so that Columbus wrote that when he looked at the forest squirrels could walk from tree to tree without jumping and never have to touch the ground. It was astonishing.
But someone had to clear those trees and build on that land. They needed free labor, not cheap, because you couldn't pay someone enough to do that volume and that type of work. They tried the Irish but the harsh temperature killed them. They tried American Indians but they either didn't have the skill set to be farmers or they killed themselves. Then after observing a particular group of Africans who were farmers who could also bring their goods to market Africans were chosen. That they were Black was a fact that was used for demarcation.
This in no way justifies slavery. Slavery is a moral abdication on too many levels to count. This is simply to explain the morbid economic justification for it. It was Americas first horrid attempt at using immigration to meet the needs of a labor market. May God forgive our Country and the Souls of our Ancestors and let our other Ancestors rest in peace.
After the American atrosity, Americans began building with free market labor and our own hands. The Irish arrived in large number in the 1820s. That happened due to the large industrial projects going on in the Northeast, i.e. the Erie Canal and rise of other great cities. The Chinese Americans arrived in 1840 - 1880 in order to help settle the West during the Gold Rush and to build the Railroads that helped make America great. The Italians arrived after the Civil War, encouraged by the American Government, due to the labor shortage created by the sheer brutality of the Civil War.
The point is simple. Every group in America was brought here for one purpose. The purpose was work.
The business of America has been and always will be business. We need laborers, we open our doors. We don't. We won't. Everything else is just window dressing aside from political asylum which goes to how we view ourselves.
Now the second wave of Hispanics have arrived. But unfortunately they've arrived at a terrible period of time. We are in the Information Age. It's what allows a factory of 300 to make more cars than a factory of 3,000 could 50 years ago. It what allows one office worker to do the work of four. Technology has reduced the need for human labor. Don't believe me.
Watch this:
Why do you need new labor when this thing can do the same work of 20 people. Automation will get faster and faster. If you can do this with lettuce you can do it with any farm vegetable. It gets twice the lettuce in half the time with half the people and this is only the first version. This will only get worse and worse.
McDonalds eventually will run an entire restaurant with two people using iPads to order and machines to cook. Restaurants will cut staff in half due to automation. Coal mines, saw mills, ... the list goes on and on.
There is no stopping this trend.
Unfortunately that's why there is no need for a large labor pool of unskilled workers. We are having a lot of trouble employing low skilled Americans today. What will happen to 20,000,000 brand new low skilled workers. It'll be a fight for those least prepared for this age of automation. And I can promise you there will be blood.
We don't need low skilled immigration reform. Not because it's racist. Not because they are drug dealers (Steve King), not because we're bad people. But because the business of America is business. And right now the sign on the window says "Not Hiring."
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