Guest Worker Costs and Benefits: Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't

Steve Sailer references an article by Robert Samuelson about the illegal aien issue (I don't just say "illegal immigrant" because the problem really is illegal entry into this country, not just illegal entry by those who wish to stay here permanently.

This reminds me of an earlier tongue-in-cheek proposal I made that we allow guest Mexican guest workers into the country, but suggested that "an essential part of any alien guest-worker program is a massive spaying/neutering campaign."

Dan Tarrant responded (sarcastically, folks, he is not actually advocating genocide) with:

"Good point, perhaps we can exterminate them when they're too old to do our s**t work."

What his point seemed to be was that if we want the Mexicans to do our "s**t work," we should have to take care of them.

But that is the point; that we do have to take care of them, and that no one ever mentions these costs when they talk about how helpful all that cheap Mexican labor is. Moreover, the distinction between immigrants and guest workers, which the pro-alien advocates are always making, disappears to a large extent when you consider that a guest worker just needs to get pregnant and manage to give birth inside the country in order to create a new citizen with all of the rights and bebfits that go along with that. Of course, birthright citizenship is never brought up by the Wall Street Journals of the world.

I remember suggesting to a friend (who had made the usual statement that aliens benefitted the economy by giving us cheap labor) that if we allowed aliens to work here, the companies hiring them should obligate themselves to pay their medical bills. He said that that was an unfair idea, tghe whole point would be to discourage the hiring of illegals.

Of course, he didn't realize that he was tacitly admitting that illegal aliens in the current system wind up using public health care resources.

The point is, it's not honest to ignore issues such as the alien use of public resources or birthright citizenship for the babies of so-called "temporary guest workers" when discussing their benefits, and then to bring them up again when you want to guilt the native-born into providing them, and to shame them for using the Mexicans as the cheap, expendable labor (their status as such being their main selling point in the first place).

If you think that it is wrong to use the Mexicans to "do our s**t work," then throw them away, then please don't try to make their status as cheap and expendable an argument for letting them into the country!

That is all.