John Mason's Son Remembers His Father

George Mason
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"Virginia Declaration of Rights," Annals of American History. Illegal Immigration is a major controversy in today's society.
There has been a continuous heated debate whether immigration should be legalized. However, according to studies of Camarota, "Nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens are lacking a high school degree" and "the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services." Illegal immigrants also do not participate in payroll taxes. If immigration were to be legalized it would have an increase average of tax payments by seventy-seven percent however the average costs would rise by one-hundred and eighteen percent (Camarota, Steven
A). Virginia Statesman George Mason would take position against legalizing immigration.
George Mason lived a private life on a plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia where he studied law and later became the Statesman. George Mason is the writer of the Declaration of the Bill Of Rights as well as part of the State Constitution. In the Virginia Bill Of Rights, Mason declared, "government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community." If immigration were to be legalized, aliens would have around the clock access to the United States which makes us very vulnerable as a country and does not ensure the greatest degree of happiness and safety. Legalizing immigration can put our country in a position of great risk. Mason also placed, "in controversies respecting property." Immigrants however steal Americans jobs, and do not pay the imposed taxes which means the American government loses money to pay for these immigrants. George Mason also stated, "no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people" meaning that people must earn these liberties not steal them like the immigrants. In Mason's time, he would not tolerate this contradiction. For example, in Mason's early life, he had managed a plantation and owned slaves. Slaves were given to them as presents when he married Anne Eilback, some were purchased, but many were born into it. In the book The Recollections, his son John Mason recalls
George owning slaves. John said, "My father had among his slaves: carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, curriers, shoemakers, spinners, weavers & knitters, and even a distiller." It didn't matter if they were men, women, or children, they worked on the many different farms, or otherwise known as "quarters." So, surely enough, George Mason would highly disagree with the legalization of immigrants.