Immigration Destruction Under Obama
by Jacob G. Hornberger

In yet another effort to continue the policies of the Bush administration, the Obama administration is targeting American companies that hire illegal immigrants. But to demonstrate that being a compassionate liberal is better than being a compassionate conservative, Obama’s immigration gendarmes aren’t conducting violent publicity-seeking raids on the businesses. Instead, they’re sending written notices to targeted companies threatening civil fines and orders to fire the illegal workers.

But wait a minute! Hasn’t the anti-immigrant crowd been telling us for years that immigrants come to America not to work but instead to get on welfare? Haven’t they produced numerous studies documenting that assertion?

Well, if the anti-immigrant crowd is right, then pray tell: Why are federal immigration gendarmes always targeting private companies for hiring illegal immigrants and never targeting local welfare offices for doling out welfare to illegal aliens? If immigrants are coming for welfare and not to sustain and improve their lives through labor, it would seem that they’d be congregating in the welfare offices rather than in private companies that have hired them to work. Right?

Moreover, if the receipt of welfare is what motivates illegal aliens, then wouldn’t you expect that the horrible economic conditions, both here and in Latin America, to be when illegal immigrant are flooding into the United States? In other words, the worse things get, wouldn’t you expect more illegal aliens coming here to get on welfare?

But that’s not what is happening. Instead, as the construction industry and other sectors in the economy have slowed down and as unemployment has soared, the number of illegal aliens coming into the United States has dropped significantly.

All this would seem to be rather strong circumstantial evidence that immigrants come to the United States to work, not to get on welfare.

The problem is that all-too-many modern-day Americans, including many in the anti-immigrant crowd, do seek welfare, especially when times get tough. Having been born and raised under a socialistic welfare state, they consider it their right to use the state to dip into the income and savings of their fellow Americans, compliments of the IRS. Then they end up projecting their love of welfare onto immigrants, unable to fathom the fact that there are actually people in the world who strive to improve their lives through labor rather than through state-sponsored plunder.

The latest example of the war on immigrants — or should I say the war on American businessmen? — involves a Los Angeles company, American Apparel, which makes T-Shirts. The federal immigration gendarmes recently sent the company a letter advising it that about 1,800 of its workers appeared to be illegal immigrants. The letter threatened civil fines and told the company to fire the illegal workers.

Maybe if the gendarmes are successful, they’ll succeed in accomplishing what they accomplished with Agriprocessors, Inc. That’s the Iowa meatpacking plant that the gendarmes raided last year. After they arrested and deported 389 illegal immigrants, about half of the company’s workforce, and after they secured federal criminal indictments of principals in the company, the company went bankrupt.

Now, wasn’t that a wonderful result? Think about it: Here’s a company that ostensibly is privately owned. Its money supposedly belongs to it. It decides to use its own money to hire people who are willing to work there. Both the employer and the employees benefit from the exchange. We know this to be true because otherwise they wouldn’t have both entered into the deal. The company serves consumers by providing them with meat products that they’re willing to pay for.

In other words, everyone — employers, employees, and consumers — was benefitting, which is what a free market is all about. Then, along comes the federal government and accomplishes what it is best at: destruction, misery, and suffering.

Also, let’s not forget all those crops that were left rotting in the fields across America within the past two years because crop owners weren’t able to hire the illegal immigrants to harvest them. Like I say, destruction, misery, and suffering — it ought to be imprinted as a motto on business cards carried by federal officials.

Why can’t the federal government just leave people alone? Why must it be killing people and destroying society with its wars on Iraq and Afghanistan? Why must it be ruining so many lives all over the world with its war on drugs? Why must it be kidnapping and torturing people while denying them the benefits of a fair trial and due process of law with its war on terrorism? Why must it be destroying peaceful, harmonious, beneficial, hard-working businesses here in the United States with its war on immigrants? What is it that motivates U.S. officials to be the greatest engine of death, destruction, misery, and suffering in the world? Good intentions, no doubt.

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