Misled on immigrants

Recent articles about immigrant child poverty appear to seek to lay the blame on the immigrants. Missing from the argument is the obvious culprit— work permits.

Tossing aside centuries of precedent where work was a Creator- ordained right, Congress claimed the power to order U. S. citizens to deny work opportunities to unfavored groups. The Constitution forbids such laws.

Both political parties call for “humane procedures” to impoverish unwanted immigrants. Federal statutes outlaw work, impose higher taxes on undocumented immigrants, and sanction states that refuse to pass oppressive laws like denying driver licenses, raising college tuition, denying child medical benefits, allowing citizens to breach contracts with and commit torts against immigrants with impunity, criminalizing transportation, denying housing, and incentivizing crime against immigrants by deporting victims who seek police help.

In short, our governments are saying to some immigrants: “We don’t want you here. We will keep harming your children until you leave.”

So that is why many immigrant children are in poverty. It is part of the plan.

Either the writers are ignorant of these causes of immigrant poverty or they omit them in order to promote President Trump’s immigration reform— one that removes the family unification strategy in favor of a system for letting in richer immigrants. They claim there is something wrong with low- skilled Latinos, and thus we should stop letting them in.

Why mislead? If we want to lower child poverty, simply let their parents work. DONALD P. BALLA Siloam Springs