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Is Alabama Immigration Law Creating a 'Humanitarian Crisis'? (Barf Alert)
Christian Science Monitor ^ | October 6, 2011 | Patrik Jonsson

Posted on 10/08/2011 6:31:53 PM PDT by lbryce

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“This law revisits Alabama’s painful racial past,” Sam Brooke, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday. “When a law that demonizes people to the point of pushing children out of schools is cheered, it’s a dark day for the state and the country.”

No sh**head, citizens are just tired of paying for illegals out of their hard earned wages while worrying about if they are going to lose their job or house. There’s no “demonization” involved despite your bleeding heart narrative.


21 posted on 10/08/2011 7:47:26 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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To: lbryce

Alabama has some of the worst black unemployment in the country. This law is a Godsend to them.


22 posted on 10/08/2011 7:48:07 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: RetiredTexasVet

It appears that both you and I had the same type of upbringing. If I listed the jobs here that I had in my life, people would call me a liar. And yes, one of them was shoveling mule **** at Grand Canyon. Not many kids these days can claim ever holding down that job.


23 posted on 10/08/2011 7:51:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: ottbmare

Tell your liberal friends that if our so-called economy can’t function without what amounts to illegal “Mexican Coolies” doing the manual labor, then we are truly finished as a country.


24 posted on 10/08/2011 7:53:45 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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To: lbryce

I have not witnessed any mass humanitarian crisis or really any change yet but I will be on the lookout.


25 posted on 10/08/2011 8:04:23 PM PDT by plain talk
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26 posted on 10/08/2011 8:09:05 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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Even if the crops were rotting in the fields for lack of slave-wage laborers, so what? Does a field full of rotting cabbage make slave-wage labor morally justifiable?

I'll bet the 19th century cotton farmers made the same arguments - "you can't abolish chattel slavery, who will pick the cotton?! Cotton will be rotting in the fields! Slaves are doing jobs Americans won't do!!"

And besides, the USDA regulations and price-support programs make far more food go completely to waste than any shortage of slave-wage labor.

27 posted on 10/08/2011 8:53:01 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: ottbmare

Usually, if the price of labor becomes too high for employers to bear, they turn to automation.

Cotton gin, combines, automatic harvester, etc, etc, etc.

So the question ought to be, why isn’t this happening now?


28 posted on 10/08/2011 10:37:14 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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Thanks for all your help and your useful arguments, FRiends. You’ve given me some good ways to defend myself against liberal talking points. Much appreciated.


29 posted on 10/09/2011 12:14:34 AM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: manc

Try being in any other country illegally, see what it gets you.Not even our good neighbor Canada will allow such foolishness. It’s crimminal the way these politicans carry on for these illegals hopeing to round up more votes from them.


30 posted on 10/09/2011 12:33:06 AM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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31 posted on 10/09/2011 12:46:45 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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Illegal aliens never heard of home schooling?


32 posted on 10/09/2011 12:50:04 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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...the immigration laws does mean that crops really are rotting in the fields. Friends who live down there are telling me about this. Farmers who are used to hiring illegals to do the stoop work can’t find anybody; the illegals have all cleared out and the legal Hispanics don’t have to settle for field-work.

This claim is suspect. I think if this was true it would be the top story on every liberal news program on TV, complete with panning video of rotting crops.

33 posted on 10/09/2011 12:55:19 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Illegal aliens never heard of home schooling?

But where would the "free" breakfast and lunch come from?

34 posted on 10/09/2011 3:43:26 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: raybbr

That’s an excellent point.


35 posted on 10/09/2011 8:58:19 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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