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Stopa “Well I’m definitely bigoted”
Me: “He can never run for office again”
And I’m a hater too!!!
On the question of sending the best, a Greek friend once told me that all the Greeks who want to work have left Greece. And that’s why Greece has a terrible economy.
On the question of respect for the law, many illegal and legal aliens come from very corrupt countries. Growing up in that sort of country, it’s reasonable to not have a respect for the law. This is one of the problems with the assimilation of our large number of immigrants.
On the Albanian alien, I have a problem with making exceptions for a small number of sympathetic illegals because immigration laws are widely ignored. This can be used as another excuse to not enforce the law.
On the question of not favoring south of the border immigrants, I see the problem as a language one. With so many immigrants speaking one language, there is less pressure to learn English, which I see as the biggest obstacle to assimilation. But some people south of the border don’t have the condition, such as Brazilians and Haitians.
I’m glad that at least one of you is not a Lamarckian and knows the damage Lamarckism has done.
Great points all, Fred. But one counter-point: I have numerous friends and colleagues who are/were for example chemistry grad students at Harvard and who were from Mexico (their adviser was Mexican). They had every bit as much respect for the law as you or I do. They understood the *principle* of respect for the law. Most of the (especially recent) illegal aliens from Mexico are from Oaxaca – which has a high population of “indigenous peoples” and a low rate of education, income, and, I suspect, respect for the law. That’s who’s coming here.