Dear Sirs:
It was a pleasure to receive your email. I wanted to answer you as best I could.
I was only interested in the USA.
Immigration in the USA can pose a problem if the immigrants are non-productive. If they come only for protection, opportunity, free services like medical and education, or any other reason other than the desire and ability to become a productive citizen in the US economy, the USA faces a dilemma.
It is not a question of mere morality or democracy. It is an economic and standard of living question. The hard working citizens of the USA make many decisions and personal sacrifices to upgrade their standard of living. They simply would not understand how they could freely give away their time and efforts to give some one else the same standard of living without working for it. If the immigrant can become productive and earn his way, there would be no reasonable way for a US citizen to complain. How long would it take to cause great unrest in its own citizens, if the US government insisted that its working, productive citizens provide a free standard of living to immigrants that did not enter the productive marketplace.
This is an old story between the "haves" and the "have nots". If there was no incentive to better yourself, no one would be motivated to try. This "scares" people in the US. We already have a substantial problem with people who exist on the efforts of others. It's called "Welfare". It is a big problem and it keeps growing. More and more citizens do not take responsibility for their own lives. They do not seek to be productive. They depend on others to give them a standard of living. Not only do they depend on others, but they complain that what they get for free is not adequate!! This really upsets people who work hard!
How much more should one person have over another? This gets to the basics of the real problem. We happen, in the USA, to live in a sort of Democracy. It is fairly "uncontrolled" and free. But Socialism and Communism have a different idea of how to exist. Morality, different cultures, different religions, etc. have nothing to do with the idea of freedom of choice. Once you have an idea that "all" is to be controlled, all opportunities should be made the same, all standards of living should be equal … you have a different kind of country than what the USA is trying to achieve. Personal responsibility with a reasonable opportunity for all. That is NOT to say that everyone will try and seize the opportunities. But we try to make opportunities available to all.
We are not interested so much as to who has more. We are more interested that almost everyone has a chance.
Our economy mirrors this idea. To give away our treasure to provide a free standard of living just will not work in the USA. This is something other than a “free” society.
Immigration of various religions, cultures, nationalities, etc. has nothing to do with keeping our economy going so that it can provide growing opportunities for an increasing population.
The fear is that we are flooding the capacity of hard working people to support free standards of living to those who are not or don't wish to join in the working, productive society that makes all this possible.
Again, it is not the moral direction of our society, nor is it some kind of fairness doctrine that determines our views of immigration. It is the "standard of living", "choices and opportunities" that determine our thinking.
Respectfully submitted, Bill T.
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