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As we state in our position paper, the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers opposes illegal immigration, and we are strongly against an amnesty that would bless the presence of those millions who have broken our laws to get here. We believe that American-ness (and here, as always, we include legal immigrants in that characterization) is a special status, earned legally, not by strolling across the border or lying to get through an immigration check.

There are those who hold other opinions, though. They apparently see millions of new additions to the population as an opportunity of one sort or another, regardless of the adverse impact on the nation. We offer here a few links to illustrative statements and actions. However, there are certainly those who have contrary opinions.

  • Some see the United States as nothing more than a profit-making venture. The huge number of illegal aliens form a new market for those interested in making money - no matter the source or the outcome for the nation or the legal worker here.

    • Business Week article, July 18, 2005.
      It discusses the opening of financial markets, particularly mortgages, to illegal aliens. We wonder how the lenders will respond if their borrowers are arrested and deported, or laid off due to new, stringent employment laws, and can no longer make the payments. The losses will no doubt be passed along to the other, legal consumers.
      A mortgage will become a new form of social equity for the illegal alien, an excuse for him to claim to an Immigration Judge that deportation would wreak an undue hardship.

    • Reuters article dated February 13, 2007.
      It discusses plans by Bank of America to begin issuing credit cards to individuals without Social Security numbers, typically illegal aliens. Again, we wonder about the losses incurred if the nation begins to regard illegal aliens as a serious problem and requires their departures. (The Reuters article reports a Wall Street Journal article on the subject. We have not linked to the WSJ article because it requires a subscription to be viewed.)

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