rellosk said:
I shudder when someone suggests building walls to keep people out. We should be about building bridges, not fences.
That would be the ideal, but sometimes, life does not allow for such idealism to exist.
Ever wonder why there is so much inequality on earth?
or why socialism and/or communism (perfectly ideal theories and situations) failed?
As I have said multiple times, my support of better handling of the border (whether its by building a wall or simply supplying more troops) is mostly economical. When a country looses its economy, it ceases to be a country.
Sometimes we have to make hard decisions, in this case, be "good" but kill our very own poor by making them and the immigrants even poorer or we try to save those who are currently poor by stoping those would be immigrants.
Sometimes, hard decisions have to be made, unfortunately that is how life functions.
We control better the border and in return, we will be giving every poor Dominican a chance to better his/her economic lot as wages increase. Why will wages increase? Because as the economy grows, demand for unskilled labor to do unskilled jobs (which are always abundant in any economy) will increase and if the number of unskilled people does not grows by much, the price of unskilled labor will rise, thus resulting in higher wages for our own poor.
I don't know about you, but I want my country to develop already.
This will hurt Haiti's attempt to move up (whatever attempt exist), but the truth of the matter is that Santo Domingo only governs or supposedly governs in the best interest of the Dominican man and nobody else.
Yes, Haiti is going to whine and cry and demand the border to open up, but then again, their economy is not the one being threatened with collapse by massive flows of people who are Haiti's government responsibility to feed, not ours.
The same Puerto Rico can say about us, but if the Haitian flow is reduced in the DR, wages among the poor will increase and that in it self, will reduce the number of Dominicans wanting to leave the country and Puerto Rico can learn to relax. Also, this might give the Haitian government a hint that they need to stop whinning to the world of their pitty and misery and start brainstorming for a solution to a problem that they created on their own.
Sure, Americans disrupted and partially contributed to the destruction of the Haitians economy in the 1920s, but everything else has been a result of Haitian doing and nobody else.