It's strange to me that we make illegal immigrants an issue in the health reform debate. It seems more logical to have an immigration debate to discuss illegals.
My thought is that if someone is here illegally, the United States is
at least partially to blame for that.
access to basic care or at least trying to provide that is a good goal. If there are illegals here, I'd treat them as any other human being and treat them.
If there is a problem that we can not afford to or do not want to provide for illegals like we do any other human, we should take measures to stop or reduce illegal aliens. That would mean immigration reform.
There is no real way for a poor Salvadoran to apply to come here legally. Anyone that gets a visa is a person of means in El Salvador.
When there are extra jobs in the US (now is not one of those times), a person in El Salvador that wants to come here, pays a Coyote around
$10,000. You pay half up front and the other half when they get you here. If you don't pay the last half, the coyote kills your family.
Once you get here, you grub for dirty work, accept less pay and usually pay taxes (working under a fake social security number). You don't live a great life, you live a cheaply as you can and send money
home. You usually have to pay back $10, 000 you borrowed from
family. $10,000 is a lot more money in El Salvador (remember these
are really poor people). You are working at $7 or less an hour and
paying that $10,000 takes a long time.
If you are lucky, you get the $10, 00 payed back and you are able to send money home to help improve life for your family. They depend on you, and you don't want to let them down. You work as many hours/jobs
as you can. If you are young, you try to do the things that young people do (date, marry, have kids, raise kids).
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