Immigration: suppose you change country to company?

http://matinale.blogspot.com/2008/02/immigration-solution-by-kenneth.html

Immigration: the solution

That's something I wrote May 16, 2006. Too bad nobody did it.

Now there is political turmoil about the Arizona law, which was enacted in April and "which, barring an injunction, takes effect July 29 — makes it a state crime to be an illegal immigrant there. It also requires police officers to determine the immigration status of people they stop for other offenses if there is a “reasonable suspicion” that they might be illegal immigrants." NY Times, July 11, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/us/politics/12governors.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th

Sounds good to me. Some people are falling all over themselves in protest, way out of proportion to any conceivable negative impact. What's the worst that can happen? Some of the people in the United States who should be deported are deported.

The fallacy of the concern is that no entity in the United States would tolerate the policy that the entire United States is supposed to tolerate. Try substituting company for country. Then see how far that policy gets you. Any entity has a right to know who is in its jurisdiction and to set policy about that.

IBM, you know the big computer company, has its headquarters a few miles from where I live. What would happen if I showed up there? I might not even get into the parking lot as a non-employee. I definitely cannot get into the building without having an employee vouch for me by
signing me in and signing me out when I leave.

Let's take it a step further. Suppose that I want to work at IBM. What would happen if I broke in? Would I be allowed to stay and would I be put on track to become an employee, employment being the functional equivalent of citizenship? Does anyone think that would happen? Forget about being sent to the employment office and put on the end of the line. The only line I would be on is the one in jail.

To the knuckleheads who think that foreigners should be allowed to break into the United States with impunity: what would you do if you came home and found a family of strangers in your home? Would you call the police and have them removed? Or would you allow them to stay ... and send for their relatives to join them?

How many people who live in houses do not have a fence between their property and the property of their immediate neighbors?

And what about showing identification? We do it all the time. As mentioned previously, virtually every company requires employees to not only have ID but to wear it when at their place of employment. When a police officer stops us for a traffic matter we are asked to show our driver's license, car registration and proof of car insurance. I have no objection to showing proof of citizenship at any time.

So why do some of us pretend to have a totally different attitude about the most basic form of membership: U.S. citizenship? Every country has a right to decide who is allowed to visit, stay, become a citizen.

And why should we pretend that most of the people who violate our borders are not from Mexico and other countries further south? Why pretend that basic common sense is "racial profiling", whatever that is? People who came to the United States from south of the border are generally the overwhelming majority of those who are offended? Why? Are they really concerned? If they were truly concerned about being deported then why would they participate in public protest rallies? Apparently they are not so concerned that the police will round them up. What is the negative implication about rounding up law breakers? How about rounding up deadbeat dads? Who opposes that?

One supposed benefit is diversity. The current dynamic is just the opposite. We are allowing people from Mexico, etc. who are generally poor, not well educated and almost encouraged to leave their countries by the ruling elite of those countries. How many of these Spanish speaking intruders would favor lawless entry into the United States if there were true diversity, i.e., that people from many different countries from around the world were breaking into the United States, people who speak many languages other than Spanish, from cultures very different from theirs, with different religions?

Tolerance is an elusive thing and very subjective when truly confronted.