Gov. Polis’ plan to give driver’s licenses to more illegal immigrants is ill-conceived because it facilitates the presence of illegal aliens in Southwest Colorado.
The influx of illegal, low-skilled workers depresses the wages of other workers, shifting money from local working families to business owners.
Because cheap labor means more profits, the progressive policy of encouraging illegal immigration shifts money from working families to investors and Wall Street. This is why the donor classes of both parties encourage wide-scale illegal immigration and why they hate President Trump’s immigration policies.
America would be well served if we reformed our legal immigration system to one based on merit. There are plenty of well trained and educated people in Central/South America, Africa and Asia who would be great additions to the American mosaic.
The argument that America has always opened its doors to all comers is tired and old. When my father’s parents immigrated from Poland in the early 1900s, America needed unskilled labor provided by the waves of immigrants that funneled through Ellis Island. Low skilled labor is not a pressing need now or in the ubiquitously automated near-future.
Instead, we need engineers, coders, health care workers, business people and others who can help keep America “a shining city upon a hill” and not a bifurcated society of haves and have-nots that we seem to be lurching toward.
William Zimsky
Hesperus
