On March 29th, Christian Rivera published a blog
entry titled, “Should
We Make Lemonade?” In his text he conveys that the illegal immigrants are “life’s
lemons” and the United States should take this opportunity to “make lemonade,” or
in other words further strengthen the nation and its economy, rather than
continue to let it hinder.
I couldn’t agree more with Christian. He mentions that “Americans
are concerned about legalizing illegal immigrants because they are afraid of
them taking over all jobs, [and criminals roaming the streets.]” However, we know
very well that these concerns do not hold water. First of all, as illegals,
they already have the jobs that would supposedly be taken over because they do
not have to be paid minimum wage thereby cutting out any competition. If they
were legal citizens, jobs would be awarded to the most qualified. In addition, they
would pay taxes on any income they earn; something they are not able to do
right now even if they wanted to. Secondly, the small percentage of immigrants
who are in fact criminals could be tried in American courts and penalized accordingly.
All we are able to do with them right now is deport them back to their
respective country and repeat the process when they come back.
We are wasting precious time, money and resources impeding
something that could be very beneficial to our nation. So needless to say, let’s
make lemonade!
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