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in my opinion, the current situation with respect to the role of illegal immigrants in our country is simply hypocritical and functionally intractable. the notion that they should be denied access to such benefits as school enrollment/tuition/health care makes a good prima facie argument, but the underlying caveat implicit in that argument is that we, as a country and a society, are actively trying to control our borders. we are not. pick a position and stick to it. if you don't want to have these people in our society, fine. quit using the goods that they produce and force the market away from them. otherwise, i can only see that you are a hypocrite.
as for all the unnecessary condescention aimed at them...these are not evil people, as a whole, anymore than any other group - and they don't deserve the ridiculous amounts of ridicule. it's like aiming a laser pointer at the couch, and then yelling at the cat when it jumps on your furntiture. furthermore, if you adopt the position that this type of situation is simply a part of reality, so we might as well take advantage of it - if we don't, someone else will...then you have guarranteed that any solution to the problem will not come from you, as you are perpetuating the problem. as for my personal opinion, i feel that if we are going to accept illegal immigrants as a defacto work force, we need to offer them some assistance in a defacto sense. either let them stay or send them away - don't pussyfoot in the middle. the real connundrum here is that we want them here - we need them here, we just want to deny them any easy route to social mobility. then they become useless to us, and we have to replace them after they have achieved middle class status. the question is whether or not that is an ethical position to adopt.
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