According to the latest polling data, for most U.S. voters, the number one issue that will affect their votes in 2024 is illegal immigration. Beyond the Middle East powder keg, beyond super inflation, beyond the emerging worldwide nuclear alliance of evil nations against the USA, American voters are alarmed by the unstoppable waves of illegal immigrants coming across our borders.
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The number of immigrants who are not supposed to be here apparently approaches 10 million in the past three years. Criminals within this group are already known to be responsible for a whole new super-family of violent criminals all across our great country.
They are already known to be responsible for murder, rapes, and armed robberies from San Diego to Maine.
They cross across deadly open seas, run into cartels, and get robbed, raped, stabbed, shot, and yet they keep coming.
Why? Think of it this way, perhaps: Suppose you could walk down a dangerous road of thorns at midnight, get violently mistreated along the way, and maybe never get out alive, but when you get to the end of the path, there is a kindly lawyer. He hands you a sheaf of papers. He reads them to you.
They tell you that now that you have made that horrible trek, you have inherited a large fortune by your Mexican or Venezuelan native standards. You will be rich compared with your compatriots from Caracas or Mexico City.
Your income if you decide to work will be about fifteen times what your fellow workers in Guadalajara or Bogotá will earn. Even if you don’t work, you’ll be “rich.”
You will be an heir of size just by crossing that border.
This is what you get just by getting here and signing up for the largesse of the most generous people on earth: garden-variety Americans.
Now do you have some idea of why people make that trip? As an economist, why would you question it for even one minute? And aren’t we all economists at least for a moment?
Money answers prayers.
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