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| I agree, I think it is more a cultural/class threat. The term "racism"
is probably a bad one that obviously incites defensive reactions in
some people.
I think that as long as the illegals want to have jobs, pay taxes, and
contribute to society it shouldn't matter whether or not they came
illegally. This country has plenty of room. Who are they harming?
Once they get here and have families established, what can we do?
Their children are legal citizens if they are born here.
Right now we have an unfair system of serfdom. The ones who earn a
living are either tied to companies paying them low wages under the
table with no benefits, or they are forced to migrate around offering
labor services to contractors and farmers. It happens all around here,
and nobody does anything about it. If we want to discourage illegal
immigration, instead of deporting people who are just going find a way
to come back later, we should be punishing those employers who hire
illegals in the first place. It won't stop the problem but it won't
feed it anymore either.
And if this country is so concerned with sprinkling magic freedom
powder in the middle east, then why don't we try to help our Mexican
neighbor? With all of the tax breaks given to corporations operating
down there, I think some of their massive profits should go into
helping Mexico become a better place to live.
We let people starve all over the world while we waste money, it's just
wrong. Then this country, one of the richest in the world, has
citizens who get  because poor people want a better life too. We
allow corporations to take advantage of the third world's poverty so we
can buy a cheap shirt at Walmart - then we get pissed off because they
actually want to live here too.
I am more personally concerned with outsourcing labor overseas. Half
my friends at a competing company just got laid off due to outsourcing
to India. The good jobs are disappearing, and the bad jobs are poorly
paying part-time no-benefit jobs that only illegals and teenagers are
willing to take. I think that the middle class is in danger of
extinction if things go on like this. Pretty soon we may find
ourselves in the same situation as the illegals today. Wouldn't that
be ironic? (I always get  on "irony" anyway, sorry if I abused
the term)
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