Achieving the impossible
Kausfiles reports:
In Arizona
In the Maricopa Medical Center in Arizona, the director of the ED commented that 45% of adults and 80% of children seeking ED care at the hospital emergency department are Hispanic. The economy in the area is getting worse and the hospital believes that many of the patients that usually come to the ED have left town
Does no one recall the constant strains of "what are you going to do, kick them all out?" or "You can't just deport them all!" only a couple of years ago?
First, this may be both legal and illegal immigrants, but it is most likely illegals who are leaving since they don't have legitimate (read: legal) access to the social support system in Arizona or elsewhere. Somehow, we are affecting the change that supposedly could not occur had we attempted simple enforcement of the laws.
And how are we affecting that change? A downturn in the economy: jobs have dried up, so illegals are leaving.
The claim for years was that if we prevented them from getting legitimate work, illegals would begin a sort of civil unrest - unable to work, unable to access benefits, they would suddenly become a destructive force (a classical marxist argument that money dictates everything about us). Thus we could not enforce the laws, or we would create criminals.
But here we have evidence that restricting access to employment causes illegal immigrants to leave the country - that people can actually behave responsibly in the face of difficult circumstances - and go find legal work. Perhaps claiming that much of the illegal immigration problem could be resolved through strict enforcement of laws wasn't just a convenient way to 'hate' on Mexicans.
Then again, maybe the economic downturn was actually created ON PURPOSE by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove - because they knew illegals would suffer the most.. hmm...
