Posted on 04/01/2006 6:57:01 AM PST by Supernatural
It's a new chapter in the Promised Land. We are becoming The Land That Better Keep Its Promises - or Else. Even promises that never were made.
A half-million illegal aliens and friends and sympathizers have taken to the streets of late, demanding unhampered residency and employment. Their anger is being whipped up against an America that would fence its borders against more coming over, and require proper payroll-keeping and taxpaying from employers who hire them outside the law.
Why? In part because a new myth is gaining currency. It is that illegal immigrants, mostly of Mexican or other Hispanic origin, "built this country." Without them the economy would collapse.
"We are the motor of this nation!" a speaker harangued the 500,000 who marched in Los Angeles on Saturday. "We construct your schools! We cook your food!" Other thousands marched to this beat of indispensability in Phoenix, Denver and Milwaukee.
That people who entered the United States by stealth feel entitled to tie up U.S. downtowns with their grievances is nervy in the first place. But their slant on U.S. history is off the wall. No better clue might be needed that kids should be taught in English, fast!
It was religious freedom-seekers from England who began building this country, followed by natives of every part of Europe, Asia and Africa. And their descendants keep right on building it as e pluribus unum Americans -- "out of the many, one." Don't expect them to honor some dubious economic necessity to let everybody in.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
What is evil is knowingly misrepresenting the true costs of illegal alien labor.
They were talking rickshaws, and he responds "Potato salad!"
Here we're talking about your great free energy 30 million illegal alien vegetable picking machine and you respond "Trial attorneys!"
Why you don't drag out your old standby argument, the racist strawman and kick it around the room for awhile? It at least has the virtue of being based on flawed logic rather than no logic.
Smoke some more dope, you may find a job in modern Hollywood, IMO.
True, the Chinese were instrumental in building the railways in the 19th century, and were notoriously good miners. I think the difference is most were just visiting Gold Mountain and were planning to return to China. Of course many didn't, but most did and many were killed when they refused to return after anti chinese legislation was passed. In St Helena a whole Chinese village south of town was massacred.
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Or trial lawyers or unions.
Whoops I forgot, trial lawyers or unions don't exist in your bong world, nevermind.
Stop the personal attacks or leave the thread.
Whatever self-proclaimed newbie DNC mod.
BTW, I ain't leaving.
That should get your boss hillary's panties(more like jock) all in a wad.
Again, please don't respond to the disruptive troll.
Thank you.
Teachers' unions and lawyers really have nothing to do with the issue, but most Freepers regard them with fear & loathing so they make nice `straw-men' for anyone lacking any substantive reasons for opposing enforcement of our immigration laws.
If someone were to make substantive arguments about changing our immigration laws, they would involve such things as, including but not limited to: federal and state minimum wage and overtime laws and occupational safety and health acts; the so-called `Family and Medical Leave' Act (which lumps pregnancy in with such things as a terminal illness); `Equal Employment Opportunity' laws; and, child labor laws.
If Mexican workers were legal immigrants employers would not be able to browbeat them into accepting working conditions that Okies endured in the `30s when such laws did not exist. (Not all of Steinbeck's `Grapes of Wrath' was artistic license)
Our current immigration policy with Mexico erodes any respect illegal aliens may have for all our laws because the immigration laws are not enforced.
They could change the laws, those mentioned above as well as our immigration quota from Mexico to increase the number of immigrants we accept from Mexico, but then employers would have to treat them like people rather than livestock.
The first act Mexicans commit sneaking into our country is to break our laws, but the Bush administration actually believes these poor campesinos will pay a $1000 fine, leave the US, then come back, then pay another $1000 fine, over a period of years, et cetera.
So you've got Democrats afraid of reducing the nanny state and business interests afraid of losing cheap, hard-working labor.
Either change the laws or enforce them, but in any event pitch the `Alicia in Wonderland' amnesty stuff: It sounds like a brainstorm thought up by the same people who came up with Hillary's national health care plan.
Read this Dane, (if you can) You and bill have the same ideology.
Bill Clinton Backs Bush on Guest Workers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607480/posts
Seen on http://www.forthecause.us
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Si.
Yes, thanks for posting this, and I don't care if it's the 10th time it's been posted, because it's the 1st time I saw it, and it sure makes a lot of sense which is usually what you get from the TRIB. Thanks!
Oh, are you in the Pittsburgh area too?
Almost every state as it was added to the union had their own policy for immigration before the feds developed a policy for all of us in 1924.
Again silent about the Security Issue that Illegals bring forth.
You can't defend it, so you won't. This isn't just about jobs and you know it.
Unfortunately, that's the agenda being promoted by Soros and the open borders bunch who intend to do away with our soverignty in the very near future.
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