Don't worry. Your country's being abolished, but that's not important so long as the commander in chief looks OK in a flight suit.
Posted on 08/06/2003 7:08:49 AM PDT by twas
Edited on 07/14/2004 12:59:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Legislation that would give legal status to millions of nondocumented foreign workers is back before Congress for the first time since the issue was put on hold by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., filed a bill last month that would allow guest workers into the United States to fill jobs that are not taken by Americans after being listed 14 days on Labor Department databases. Supporters say it would help businesses that have trouble hiring employees for jobs that many Americans don't want to do. After three years on a job, the guest workers could apply for residency status.
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At which time they can decline to do the jobs like the rest of us. We'll just import more...
How about (this is really radical) we POLITELY ask the millions on welfare to do some of these jobs to EARN their keep? Then, MAYBE, we won't need to import workers while we pay people to sit at home and do nothing!
Really, and if Congress goes ahead and legislates another amnesty for these lawbreakers then they may find the voters will be ready to replace them. Spencer Abraham learned in 2000 what happens when you thumb your nose at the will of the people and sell them out.
This is so easy to get around. Just put a description of the job and the qualifications that are so restrictive (eg Speak fluent Hindi - be open to 100% travel to India) that no one but the target can be hired.
Don't worry. Your country's being abolished, but that's not important so long as the commander in chief looks OK in a flight suit.
Besides, any legislation that purports to get a handle on illegal immigrants currently in the country but doesn't provide for airtight border & inland immigration enforcement isn't worth the paper its written on.
The present immigration situation isn't about economics, it is about race and power. The people who conceived and pushed the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, such as Ted Kennedy, Philip Hart, and Emmanuel Celler, didn't pass it because they believed it was good for the economy, they passed it because they burned with hatred for American society, both political and cultural.
The purveyors of this program know how to sell it to the fragmented remains of American society: Appeal to their greed. A process made easier by the Official Opposition Conservatives who don't conserve anything and have long since become nothing but PR flacks for Wall Street.
Immigrants will drive Americans out of industries, just as slaves drive out free workers. Massive immigration, in other words, causes or aggravates the so-called "Jobs Americans Won't Do" thing. The analogy to slavery is probably apt, and I suspect that when the dust clears it will be shown that the present immigration policies economically (and temporarily) mainly benefit the few at the expense of the many.
People who go on about "jobs Americans won't do" display a real hatred for their fellow Americans. A society at war with itself. Some of this is class-based, and some of it is race-based. Certainly the elite love these Central American maids, pool cleaners, and other workers, because they don't want blacks in their houses or factories.
These immigrants don't really have a stronger work ethic than the natives. In many cases just the opposite is true. It's just that if you are used to working for, say, $10 an hour and suddenly another company offered to pay you $50 an hour you too would be an enthusiastic worker, at least until you got used to it. Then you'd probably go on strike for $55. Certainly your children would. Hispanic communities in this country have higher rates of unemployment, welfare use, crime and other problems than the population in general. All this public jabbering about how hard working, and how socially conservative and culturally wonderful they are amounts to no more than politically correct racial stereotyping. The need to do this sort of thing reveals the nature of the game.
The analogy to slavery is probably apt
It's almost exact. I've had growers in the Pajaro valley (Watsonville, CA) tell me that the best thing about their illegal employees is that they cannot vote. This from a person who was on the local Republican central committee. In short, even though they are not chattel slaves, they are disenfranchised slaves, unable to do anything about their own economic situation.
This is against the principles of the real Republican party which was founded on Free Soil, Free Labor issues, and stood in opposition to the immoral competitive advantage that the plantation owners had. I've come to the conclusion that maybe amnesty would be a good thing: then the employers breaking the rules would have no incentive to hire "illegals", because in short order, the illegals would be legal and begin voting for socialist legislation, aimed at the employers themselves. At which point the whole thing would stop.
In addition, your comment about Hart, Cellar and of course dear Teddy are dead on. They knew what they were unleashing, which came from their bottomless spite and hatred for the society they found themselves in, and did not have the character to leave, but rather went on a psychotic jihad to destroy it.
"Gee, all the immigrants we're importing are giving us lotsa new Democrats, but the Dems still don't have complete power. Let's open the borders completely and give citizenship to all!"
Methinks Arizona voters better respond by "importing" their politicians from Colorado!
Refugees from Lost Angeles who can't stop themselves from voting for Dims. It's a suicide thing.
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