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Is the United States Sanctioning Slavery?
By
Austin I. Weber

Most of the jobs that Mexico’s illegal immigrants work at would likely be taken by Americans if only they would be paid a living wage and were treated properly as workers.  It is simply not true that the work is degrading, demeaning or difficult.  Such statements are made and spread by employers for the specific purpose of getting much bigger profits and cheaper help (for whom they do not pay social security or protect the workers from occupational hazards).  Also involved in this process are many politicians who hope to gain political points.  Meanwhile our own citizens swell the welfare rolls, go hungry and become homeless.

Is there anyone who believes that the vast majority of these poor ghetto people come here on their own?  Would they be capable of organizing and financing the building of mile-long tunnels, obtaining acetylene torches to cut through thick steel fences, buying rifles and ammunition to fire at our border guards, etc.?  Many of these poor are, for the most part, indentured people owned by well-organized racketeers who export the ghettos of Mexico to the United States.

I greatly sympathize with Mexico’s poor people, but we have about 36,000,000 Americans living below the poverty level who are not properly cared for.  Why should we inherit Mexico’s problems?  Isn’t it her job to properly manage the government, the economy and control the population so that her people are not forced to become indentured in order to survive?

Our government must wake up to the facts and try to solve this dilemma.  We cannot give a license to those racketeers who want these people to remain indentured slaves.  Nor can we allow the illegal workers to remain in this country or give them employment our own people need and should get.  Also, great effort should be made to fine and jail the racketeers who demand and collect money from those indentured. 

We cannot afford to become a “subsidiary” of Mexico, and it is time that we stop rewarding the rich with more wealth at the expense of the middle class and the poor.

We can stop illegal immigration not by building higher fences or plugging up tunnels but by jailing the (enforcer collecting agents) racketeers in this country, tracing the mail going to Mexico and having the Mexican police jail the racketeers on their side of the border.  We will never be able to stop this monstrous business using security as our only means.

We are now faced with three options:

1. We can let the situation continue in which case we are condoning slavery.  These people are owned by racketeers.  They work as hard as our colonial slaves, their living conditions may be a little better or a little worse, and they have no more freedom than the black slaves brought from Africa.
2. We can make them citizens with all the rights and privileges that the Americans have but now they are no longer cheap labor as they would come under the regulations of the Labor Department.  This would put them out of work, but they would still be owned by racketeers and would continue living in ghettos worse than in Mexico.
3. We can return them to the Mexican ghettos where they will be free people.

April 2006