As you are probably aware, the United States has taken more aggressive steps to prevent illegal immigrants from other countries (particularly Mexico) from entering the country from across the border and setting up residency here. There are many pros and cons to this permanent relocation plan, especially when dealing with the loss of the immigrant work force themselves as well as the effect that these activities have on the children of these families.

Since the beginning of this forced exile of these immigrants, the American economic system has worsened. Many farmers have lost their businesses due to the fact that they have lost the cheap manual labor that these people provided when the time to harvest came around. They simply could not afford the wages that they would have to offer to entice American workers to do this type of backbreaking work (not that many of them would even be interested in it).

Other American farmers have pulled up stakes and moved Mexico, where the cheaper labor can now be found. As a result of labor problems and the expense of importing produce that was once grown here from Mexico, our food costs are rising at an increasingly alarming rate.

On the other side of the labor issue, these immigrate workers came to this country in the first place to earn wages that were not available back home. Now many of these workers cannot support their families on the wages that they are forced to take in their own country.

Another problem that immigration officials need to address is that of the broken families that are left behind because of this enforced exile. In some cases, one parent may be an American citizen while the other is an illegal immigrant. The foreign parent is forcibly removed from the home, leaving the child and the other parent to fend for themselves. If the absent parent was also the breadwinners of the family unit, this can leave the child and remaining parent in dire straits. Continue reading ‘Children and the Immigration Problem’