But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
~Karl Marx, "On the Question of Free Trade" - January 9, 1848
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Ultimately, Garcia says, the goals of the emerging legalization movement are not only to change current and future immigration policy but to "bring immigrants together with other low-income communities in a new progressive movement."
The AFL-CIO announcement gave a similar boost to immigrant organizing in Oregon. "We had been fighting for legalization for a long time," says Ramon Ramirez, president of PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste) in Woodburn, Oregon. "We saw the AFL announcement as a great opportunity. We saw that it was time to move immigrant rights to another level, to have the maturity to get a broad set of folks together."
Absolutely, more immigrants will change America. The latest Barna Research results posted on FR last night showed that Asians were the most anti-Christian in their attitudes, and surprisingly Hispanics were also against such things as the display of the Ten Commandments in greater numbers than most Americans. So of course, liberals would try to open the floodgates and let these immigrants in who will further their godless agenda.
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You can look at this way --- most of these people were PRI party voters in Mexico for generations --- and those are kind of like die-hard democrats. If they were real believers in Conservative principles, Mexico wouldn't look like it does.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that an influx of low-paid voting immigrants will probably gravitate towards the DemocRat Pary as they have been the historical beneficiary of such votes. They have honed their divisive class warfare skills to a fine edge over many generations with many different groups of immigrants, and then can now add to the flammable mix, the issue of race.
The Republicans have only two ways to beat them at this game: reduce or at least bring under control immimgration through elimination of illegals, and make a better effort to sell the Republican political philosophy to these people.
Most of these immigrants, although from the lower rungs of the financial ladder, are not receptive to kind of environmentalist wacko, rabid homosexual, anti-school choice rhetoric spewed by typical DemocRats, and by selling the benefits of smaller government, less taxes, along with programs specifically targetting and benefiting lower income people and the education of their children we can wean them away from the far leftists.