Immigration Debate Should Include Infrastructure

A lot was said about amnesty prior to the November 2006 general election when neoconservative Republicans took immigration reform off the table. The focus of the debate was on fence-building, bringing in helpless troops to help guard the border, and whether foreigners here illegally should be allowed to stay or should be fined.

Nary a word was spilled about the impacts of immigration on infrastructure and establishing the number of incoming immigrants to match the capabilities of infrastructure as it stands and as it could be.

Right now, the feds, by deed, are in favor of exploitation of overseas sweat shops and a dramatic influx of cheap labor, i.e. immigrants, to bolster profits. All in the name of corporativism.

But severe damage is being done to an infrastructure not designed to accommodate so many newcomers.

Taxpayers, not the corporate benefactors, bear the brunt as: