we have a racist in our class that believe that Mexicans shouldnt come to the U.S and i told him that that is wrong. They are trying to protect there families and survive, and why the hell shouldnt they be able to come over here? I believe, that if I had a family and they were dieing because of persecution then i would do everything in my power to find a new place to live or fight the government.
Being against illegal immigration (Or any immigration) is
not racist.
It is
not racist to oppose immigration of any kind, unless you
base your opposition on the race of the person migrating.
It's attitudes like this, which assume anyone against anything which relates to foreigners in any way (Even when they are
the same damn race) is a racist, which have caused most of the problems with immigration, aid, etc. in the world today.
Unless the guy in your class said "Damn hispanics shouldn't be allowed in the country
because they are hispanic", he isn't being racist. Hard as it is for your leftie brain to understand, even saying "Hispanics should not be allowed in the country" isn't racist,
unless you justify it because they are hispanic. "Mexicans should not be allowed in the country because
our infrastructure cannot handle the increased number of people" is not racist. I don't see how so many people can fail to grasp this simple fact, that immigration is
often bad.
Let's say Mexicans all work in manual labour -- they don't, but it makes it easier to avoid outliers and other anomalies.
So, every Mexican who joins the country adds to the economy, because every one of our Mexicans gets a job. So that's existing economy + 1, per Mexican.
OK, now let's introduce the costs of having them in the country. Again, we're generalising because of the incredible range of costs, but let's just say it's existing economy +1 (Because of the jobs they get) -1 (For costs). So it just equates to the existing economy. Add in the costs of the immigrants who don't work, and the economy looks fucking terrible. Add in the benefits of the ones who excel and do high-powered important jobs (There will always be fewer of these, even in an indigenous population), and it just ends up looking bad (All relative to how it started, of course).
I know these numbers don't add up, and I'm not pretending they're accurate, but most arguments for/against immigration just skip past the fact that there are costs for both immigrants who work, and immigrants who don't.