By Joseph L. Galloway
05-20-2006

There’s been a lot of heat and smoke, but not much light in the newest debate on the matter of immigration on our southern border with Mexico.

No one has covered himself with glory in the proposed “solutions” to an age-old reality: Mexico (and more recently Guatemala and Honduras and El Salvador) have poor people who want to work, better themselves and support their families. The United States has jobs, many of them, it’s true, low-paying jobs that Americans don’t want.

So they’ve come to los Estados Unidos, the United States, by the millions. Most find work, make money to send home and eventually go home themselves. Some came to stay and became citizens and their children, like ours, became too well-educated and too spoiled to consider working at the low-paid jobs that wait for new waves of immigrants.

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