We “need” all those immigrants to provide goods and services for … other immigrants

In my booklet Huddled Clichés, I discovered the principle that mass immigration creates the illusion of its own indispensability. Reader Stephen T. has now discovered that mass immigration creates the need for—mass immigration. He writes:

Here’s another question I’d like to see some VFR reader answer: Where in history is a developed nation which has been brought to its knees due to the lack of millions of unskilled, uneducated immigrants from the third world? I keep hearing that it’s looming on the horizon—an approaching apocalypse caused by a shortage of stoop-laborers. But where is it actually happening? There are still countries on this earth which restrict most immigration, and totally bar illegal immigration. Have these countries lapsed back to the stone age for doing so?

The truth is, continued mass immigration creates a great deal of the need for MORE mass immigration. Los Angeles county hospitals actively recruit and hire thousands of illegal Mexicans to mop floors and empty bedpans. Why? Because their patient load has gone through the roof in recent years. And who are these hundreds of thousands of new patients whose bedpans need to be emptied by illegal aliens from Mexico? There’s not even a debate about this: they are illegal aliens from Mexico.

Currently, the largest public-funded construction project in the western U.S. is the Los Angeles Unified School District’s project to simultaneously build 60 new schools (evicting thousands of American property-owners in the process.) As late as the late 1980s, the LAUSD was TEARING DOWN schools and converting others to adult or vocational education. These schools had accommodated generations of American families without a problem. Now, suddenly, we need 60 new schools or “catastrophic overcrowding” will occur. I wonder where all these school-agers came from so quickly? Not long ago an African American man appeared before the school board with photographs taken at scores of these school construction sites. His point was: you can’t find a single black or white face among the thousands of construction workers building these schools. They are literally all Mestizo Mexicans, hired by independent contractors to nicely insulate the school district from accusations that they are hiring illegal labor. Many of these contractors are notorious for hiring and recruiting in Mexico itself, providing a coyote service to get the workers across the border. So the equation holds: the existence of hundreds of thousands of children of illegal aliens creates the need for new schools to be built, which then creates the demand for still more illegal aliens to build them.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 21, 2006 07:23 PM | Send