Help wanted everywhere- Immigrants are welcome!

How we treat migrants matters!

Pedro Sánchez Rios entertains his 1-year-old son, Estebeban Sanchez, at Union Station in D.C. after arriving alongside other migrants July 12, via a bus from Texas. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post)

This echo opinion letter could have been written by anyone who is living in Maine.

Published in The Washington Post:

I live in an area that is desperate for people to work in jobs that most Americans deem lowly. Employers in manufacturing, housekeeping, construction, etc. are looking to hire people who want to work. The states that have too many migrants might want to put out a call for help instead of treating them like cattle. 

Towns (for example, like almost any that you can point to in Maine!) could plan to integrate them into their area with businesses willing to hire them. Then volunteer to help the families who risked their lives for a better life in the United States.

I am afraid politicians are forgetting that they represent people. Treating people who need a better life like cattle and shipping them off without a care for their welfare is not Christian. The population is declining in many states, and immigrants are needed to increase productive capacity, which raises gross domestic product.

If immigration makes the economy larger, more efficient and more productive, what’s the problem?

 (Maine Writer: IOW #RepublicansAreTheProblem!)

From Andrea Marie Zimmerman, in Columbia, Pennsylvania