Ramos Doesn’t Care About America

The Quote Below–More Misinformation from the Media

“The U.S.-Mexico border is a ‘bleeding scar.’ That is how Mexican author Carlos Fuentes described it in 1997. According to the Pew Research Center, 1.2 million immigrants, authorized and unauthorized, entered the United States that year. Back then, just like now, there was talk of an overwhelming crisis at the border. . . .

“As the years passed, the number of undocumented immigrants kept growing — rising to 12.2 million in 2007. In 2009, a newly elected President Barack Obama missed a crucial opportunity to introduce an immigration reform bill at a time when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Then came Donald Trump, one of the most racist and anti-immigrant presidents in American history.

“Mr. Trump’s inhuman and repressive policies — and the emergency health measures put in place in 2020 to control the pandemic — reduced annual net immigration to its lowest levels since the 1980s.

“But now, with a new president and new rules, the United States could return to the days when hundreds of thousands of immigrants entered the country illegally every year. In February alone, U.S. officials apprehended more than 100,400 migrants along the border. This is, perhaps, the new normal. . . .

“It should come as no surprise that this is happening along a border that divides one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world from one of its most economically unequal regions. Latin America’s poor and vulnerable — struggling amid a pandemic, the devastation of climate change and the violence of their homelands — are moving north to a safer, more prosperous place. . . . And this will keep happening for a long time. . . .

“We must accept this unfortunate reality and create a system that can legally, efficiently and safely absorb more of these immigrants and refugees. They will keep coming; there is no other solution. . . .

“In the meantime, the United States should start accepting between one and a half and two million authorized immigrants every year. . . .

The United States is a nation of immigrants, . . . and, it’s going to need a lot more migrants to support the nation’s beleaguered economy, replace its growing population of retired workers and make up for the country’s low birthrate. Our immigration system desperately needs to be updated to face these challenges. . . . – The Perpetual Crisis at the Border and What We can do about It, Jorge Ramos, The New York Times, 4/2/21. [Link]

Fact Check of Above Quote: Jorge Ramos, an anchor on the Spanish-language Univision network is a Latino supremacist. In his book, The Latino Wave, Ramos condemns effective steps by the U.S. government to control our southern border and stop illegal immigration from Latin America. Like all supremacists, he believes than his co-ethnics should have legal privileges, in this case the right to ignore our immigration laws. And like many supremacists, he levels the charge of “racist” to divert attention from his own motives. His book also argues that Latinos should resist assimilation and develop a collective Latino identity.

In this column Ramos tries to persuade his readers that mass immigration is simply a force of nature that we can’t resist. Really? It seems that former President Trump had some success at it—as Ramos himself concedes. His next gambit is the tired old line that we must have mass immigration to provide workers in an aging society. That isn’t true for several reasons. One is that immigrants aren’t sufficiently young or numerous to reverse our aging significantly. Another reason is that our economy is now on the brink of a large-scale shift to automation. Within little more than a decade, as many as forty percent of the jobs now done by humans in the U.S. will be automated. In that situation a shortage of workers is not likely to be a problem.

Ramos claims that our country is obligated to provide “a safer and more prosperous” haven for the poor of Latin America. But if we do that, as we cast away our rule of law, will we remain a safe and prosperous country? Let’s look at the numbers. A recent Gallup poll found that 42 million people south of our border would like to move here. If we reasonably assume that they would like to bring their spouses and minor children with them, the total could easily be 100 million or higher.

Is our country remotely capable of absorbing such a massive influx, a country starkly divided with a declining middle class and massive debt? People like Ramos don’t care. National interest is the least of their concerns.

 

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