President Donald Trump should start acting like the head of a
great nation in dealing with the large number of jobless immigrants
on the border. The people coming to the Mexican border are
essentially saying they think the United States is a great nation
which can provide jobs their own countries cannot. A Great
Nation helps people in other nations when it can. The
United States under President Harry Truman was a great nation
because it helped west European nations recover from the devastation
their war had caused.
The United States cannot provide jobs to everyone in the world, but
it does have a public works project for the Mexican border that
could provide jobs for the immigrants on the border. Hiring
the border immigrants to construct The Wall would allow construction
in a short period of time. Constructing The Wall would
provide immigrants the jobs they need to support their families
without taking jobs from those who are already living here.
Companies selling goods and services to Wall workers might even be
able to add employees. Having the immigrants construct
The Wall might be the only way to avoid a humanitarian crisis
because other potential approaches are unlikely to be
able to create enough jobs for them in time to help. If the
United States can provide jobs building The Wall to jobless
immigrants, it would be immoral not to hire them. A Great
Nation determines what needs to be done and does it.
President Trump might have to switch to a more labot intensive
type of wall construction to reduce the cost of materials. He
could hire the immigrants now even though there would be a delay
before they could begin working on The Wall. That time could
be used to teach them some basic English and to construct
housing. They would also receive training in how to build The
Wall. After building The Wall they would be available to
work on infrastructure projects.
As an historian I recognize that sustained economic growth has
involved an increasing population. Except for the baby boomer
era the population increase has come from immigration.
When the United States limited immigration in the 1920's the limits
acted like a lid on the economy and the economy imploded. New
immigrants arrive with few possessions so they purchase more goods
than established residents. Immigrant families provide even
more economic stimulation because parents need to replace clothes
and toys the children have outgrown
I don't know how the immigrants view President
Trump. The fact that they are coming here looking for
jobs implies they think of him the way Dorothy thought of the
wonderful Wizard of Oz. Is President Trump just smoke
and mirrors or is he the leader of a great nation that helps those
in need? The leader of a Great Nation would do everything he
can to deal with the crisis on the border.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
How can you be so wrong and yet claim to be so educated? Great nation, there has never been a great nation equal to our America. In order for a nation to be great it has to maintain it's right to be sovereign. It must control the flow of peoples who wish to be apart of it's make up. You don't look to what happens when the wall is completed, where do all those aliens go without taking jobs away from citizens? Where not talking about a small group but of millions of people. Those immigrants walked or road through three or more countries to get to our border, why didn't they take up the offers from any of those countries to stay and work? The answer is that they don't want work, they want hand outs, free stuff and not earned stuff. Have you opened up your home to them, let them reside with you and you can support them for as long as it takes for them to go on their own, but I'm sure that they would out live you and you would never see them on their own.
Post a Comment