Today the Wall Street Journal ran an article covering how wireless companies are finding a new customer base in the immigrant market. The WSJ takes a very soft hand towards illegal immigration, so the article never actually says the words “illegal immigrants”. But two sentences from the article lets you know that illegals are the true target market.

I make a big distinction between legal immigrants and illegals. As I’ve explained before I have no problem with legal immigration and think it is a good thing. But it is clear that these new marketing efforts are being made to illegal aliens. Legal immigrants have identification and usually have a fixed address. The major wireless companies are not the ones doing this, since they require customers to wait months before making international calls. Resellers of wireless services are the ones targeting people who have no identification (illegals).

I usually don’t say much about private companies that sell goods and services to illegals and most people focus attention on companies that hire illegals or give them public services. But private companies targeting illegals with goods and services is something that everyone should be aware of. Because although resellers are targeting illegals in their customer base (they never say it explicitly) the major carriers are ultimately running the services used. This means any effort to crack down on illegal immigration will have an impact on the bottom line of the entire wireless sector. That potential impact is going to eventually cause wireless providers to become more overt in supporting illegal immigration. Meaning, the more illegal immigration is allowed, the more private companies cater to them, the more private companies will become dependent on them and more companies will support illegal immigration.

Allowing illegal immigration has caused a self feeding cycle, where private companies will depend on illegals and tax payers will see their money going to services for illegals. Companies will show more support to candidates that are soft on illegal immigration. President Bush was Governor of Texas for 2 terms. He never put the National Guard on the border while he was Governor of Texas and many of the same issues being faced on the border now existed then. Only now we better realize the threat of terrorism coming over our borders, which makes matters worse. Imagine how much this wireless access helps terrorist and criminals make calls to support their illegal and deadly activity! The large influx of illegals has created a market for a service that is a criminal’s dream.

Companies will continue to want light enforcement of illegal immigration. Which is why the WSJ already reflects a soft hand when it comes to people violating our nation’s borders. (And overall the WSJ is better than many of the Liberal rags out there.) The longer illegal immigration is allowed, the harder it will be to stop it.