ICE crackdown forcing some families to self deport

[Benton]

(07-11-2017, 04:49 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Yes.  I may have an over-idealized vision of immigration, but I see it like a guy comes here, and he will take whatever work he can get.  He packs his lunch and doesn't waste his money.  Maybe he starts a business eventually.  He marries and they have kids, and you better believe these kids are going to school, and they are going to perform, and they become our DRs, lawyers, engineers etc.,  and they are Americans not someone we needed to import.

But I truly believe you always need this new blood that's hungry. Maybe literally, maybe figuratively, maybe both.   They are the future entrepreneurs.  I complain about my job and someone says, start your own business, and I'm like, I don't know how to run a business.  They don't either, and they don't care.  They were making $10 a day at home, so what do they have to lose?  Janis would say they are free.  

My great grandfather came here from Germany after WW I. He had nothing of value (like a lot of Germans following the war), no skills and spoke only German, moving to a rural part of Illinois in a country not too found of Germans at the time. He worked hard, saved money, bought an empty building and turned it into a grocery store. He had a son and daughter, the son joined the Navy, served for four years and opened his own business. His daughter (my mom) was the first in the family to go to college. Etc., etc. 

I guess that's why I get a little frustrated with issues like the travel ban or 'build the wall.' I don't see a Middle Eastern fleeing from violence in his country with no marketable skills and not proficient in English as any different than Germans and others who fled here after WW I & II. Same with those coming from South America where there may not be fighting, but there's high poverty.