Let's say I come visit your house...

[missroserose]

Recently, a relative who sent me a rather moronic anti-illegal-immigration email entitled Let's Say I Break Into Your House. It's an incredibly flawed analogy from the start, and some of the conclusions the author draws are patently ridiculous.

However, given the personality of the relative in question, I knew that breaking the whole thing down and explaining why it's not true wasn't going to have much effect. So instead, I decided to take the analogy and apply it to a different situation...

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[jamesd.livejournal.com]

It applies quite interestingly to two other cases, Texas (legal settlers into Mexico who took the territory into their former country) and Israel (legal initial settlers followed by partially terrorist wave of settlers who took over most of the country, gradually taking more of it after attempts to evict them, still inviting in friends to take more of the country).

The practical rule in those cases and the current one is that might ends up winning. And the settlers into the US have the might for all sorts of economic reasons that favor immigration to exporting jobs or higher taxes on a non-immigrant only population to pay for baby boomers' retirement social security.

Here much of the immigration issue is migrants from new European Union states, who have the legal right to work here. Some tendency for them to leave now as the Euro's higher value against the Pound means that remittances home are of lower value than they would be if they worked in another longer term EU member state.