Opinion: Dust-up day three: Amnesty v. Attrition
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Tamar Jacoby and Mark Krikorian continue to carve up the immigration debate today, asking who dares call it amnesty, and who can afford a war of attrition.
And what would a debate be without ringing commentary from You, the Fabulous Little People? Brent R. Forster, who needs no introduction because he introduces himself, speaks up about Operation Disemployment:
‘[T]urning off the magnet of jobs is essential to reducing the demand’ I have never read when eliminating jobs actually benefited the people...have you? People who come to make an honest living, must be accepted, it’s the American way. Dear Californians my name is Brent R. Forster, I live in Arlington, VA and I am providing a rebuttal to building the fence and solution to the ‘immigration problem’. Walls are medieval tools, built to confine animals or to protect the state from the enemy. Usually when they are destroyed, the destruction is celebrated. I would also assume the wall would not blend well with the California landscape and probably force the Mexicans to travel through, and destroy more remote undisturbed terrain. My solution would be to learn how to absorb the ‘immigrant worker’ into the local and federal economy. Instead of building a fence to keep people out, work with the Mexican people to let them in! Develop a way that the American people and Government can be compensated along with the Mexican people and maybe you can save another pointless destruction of beautiful environment and wasting millions of tax dollars. This country was built by immigrants, know matter how may generations pass must tax paying Americans are immigrants of this land. Monitoring the border is still essential but, it should be done with technology and less conventional tactics, like building a fence. If a man or woman wants to work and a ‘magnet of jobs’ exists then learn how to control and profit not reject B
Meanwhile, Greta Anderson of the Center for Biological Diversity says, ‘’Our Wall’ is not my wall...
The opinion writers must not forget the devastating environmental consequence that this infrastructure policy entails (‘Our Wall’, today). Public lands and imperiled species will suffer from the border wall proposal; ecological resources will be permanently harmed in way that is not debatable. Our wild places, plant, and wildlife merit a border policy that addresses the root of the problem, not a band-aid solution that will destroy thousands of acres of the fragile desert southwest.
Keep those cards and letters coming. We’ll find room for them.