Solution to Illegal Immigration Problem

"The left intends to pummel American society into granting, out of pity, the right of anyone to come to America to live," writes Bruce Walker at American Thinker. But those who care about these people should look at why they are coming to the US and seek for them something better than submersion in the American underclass.

He argues that the US faces no tide of immigrants from Western Europe (or Canada, with whom we share one of the longest borders in the world) because those nations are more like America in terms of "religious tolerance, representative democracy, ordered liberty, and most of all, the rule of law..."

The American “immigration problem” of Hispanics is really a problem of misrule by many nations in Latin America.  Endemic government corruption, widespread gangsterism, and Marxist thuggery have kept lands that ought to be happy and prosperous into prisons from which millions of captive natives wish to flee.

The solution, then, is not for poor and desperate people to sneak into America and create a shadow life as illegals, and it is not to open America’s doors to let these people into our country. ...

What will end the pain of those who creep across our borders is not to change America, but to change the government, the politics, and the moral culture of those lands from which our illegal immigrants flee.  The very worst thing, of course, is to so flood America with illegal immigrants that this land of hope instead becomes another appendage in the empire of despair – yet that is what the left surely wants.