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Posted on 01/02/2008 11:18:10 AM PST by Moose4
In my mind he's merely arguing for a long overdue modernization of farming practices in those areas where we are still using peon labor in peon conditions.
Rube believes that our lack of labor [read 'lazy gringos'] will cause us to further cede our national security and cultural values. That argument is on a descending slope in an economy that is increasingly less needful of manual labor in general and stoop labor in particular - but I guess it remains warm and fuzzy on the left.
They cannot accept that it really is he illegal part and not the hardworking part that is offensive:
I started to list the litany of other ills he is willing to ignore but the list is too long.
I have definately seen a change up here in the High Desert. There has been a trailer park in my beautiful city, for many years. The illegals have lived there in deplorable, trashy conditions, with too many crammed into each trailer. Every morning at the crack of dawn, they gathered together (50 - 60) to stand by the street, waiting for someone to pick them up for a day job.
They are all gone, and the eye-sore trailer 'park' is being torn down. They have left over 100 cats behind, and there is a lady here who is trapping them, and taking them to the vets to be spayed and neutered.
I think the empty trailers will be removed this week.
I’ve listened to Ruben Navarette being interviewed on the radio a couple of times. What’s the nicest way to put this. He’s not the, uh, sharpest tool in the shed.
Methinks that this guy would deny the evidence if his nose was rubbed in it,
which is, figuratively, what has happened to him.
It’s not just Arizona, and it’s not a coincidence, that when immigration laws are enforced, illegals decide to go home.
That’s good news. The media seems to say it’s so but they base it on interviews of illegal aliens! I’m glad to have a real report.
It’s not really evidence, but on New Year’s Eve I didn’t hear any shots fired or Mexican music in my neighborhood! That’s the first time in years.
>Self deportations could easily snowball.<
I doubt it because I don’t think that the illegal alien issue is in the forefront of peoples minds, it certainly isn’t on FR.
Bump. Hoisting liberal nimrods by their petards is becoming too darn easy!
Then again, I've thought about canceling the paper specifically because they run his "column".
His column is incoherent. He admits people are going back to Mexico, but says its an annual phenomenon. He’s right, actually, we see it here, when the farms aren’t hiring, people go back to Mexico for a few months, and then return in the spring.
But thats mostly for the legal residents, for them a trip home and a return in the spring is no big deal. Illegals, especially now, can’t afford to go home because they probably can’t get back across. So if illegals are going home, it truly is a “self-deportation”.
Another incoherency is his belief that only Mexicans, and of them only illegal Mexicans are willing to do manual labor in Arizona. This is plainly silly, if you work in the construction trades in the southwest hot and cold weather go with the territory. If the illegals aren’t there, there may be some upward pressure on wages, but that is a good thing, not a bad thing. And if you admit that the absence of illegals mean higher labor costs then you have to admit the corollary, that the presence of illegal workers depresses wages for the legal workers.
If there are some jobs that latte-sipping yuppies won’t do, at the price offered, then contractors may be forced to bump their wages a bit to compete with other work. That is not a bad thing. We don’t want a world in which some people are forced to do hard jobs due to their immigration status, we want a world in which people compete for the hard jobs because they are the best paid jobs. You can’t get there until you eliminate illegal labor.
That's true. This time of year, they're all heading back to Mexico to visit for the holidays. In a week or two, they'll all be back whether Arizona or any of us wants them or not.
At firstI thought this might be worth clicking on but then I saw it was from CNN.
I’m gonna keep hope alive on the self-deportations
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But he IS a tool.
Good illegals post!!
Exactly what I thought when I read the word “restrictionist” in this context. All law enforcement officers are restrictionists by the exact same criteria. They are restricting criminals’ ability to break the law.
Right!! That is obvious to most....Ruben is an idiot...
I like it!
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