What America Owes its 'Illegals' (Ultra Barf Alert!)

The Nation ^ | June 12, 2007 | Barbara Ehrenreich

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just doing the jobs we won't do: that's our "undocumented Americans" for you...

[TAdams8591]

We owe them nothing. We owe ourselves their expulsion from our home.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****Undocumented workers shouldn't be fined; they should get a hefty bonus!*****

In the first paragraph she proves Rush's point. The dems & elite republicans say it's not amnesty because there is a fine and she is admitting there should be no fine. For all practical purposes the pro-amnesty people should just argue for the merging of the US & Mexico.

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Bus fare.

[SteveMcKing]

Barbara Ehrenreich

[Clintonfatigued]

This deserves a “WTF?” by Aunt Linda from Weekend Update (Saturday Night Live).

[Cacique]

This is not over yet. Bush refuses to give up this easily. It's his stubborn character. He will try to resurrect it and call it something else. We have to keep our guard up. We need to keep the pressure up.

STAGE TWO is to go after the people who hire illegals. Start giving them fines and arresting them. Just catch ten or 100 of them on the nightly news. The magnet will dry up and most of the 12 million will go home by themselves.

As an addendum, we should anonymously call the IRS, people working "off the books" means taxes ain't being paid. Make anonymous fliers and hang them around the neighborhood, name names. It's time to embarrass these bustards, whether they give to the GOP or Rats, we don't need them.

CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!

WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!

Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

The best way to stop Shamnesty

[P-40]

the manual labor that makes our lives possible

The manual labor that made myself and so many of my friends escape grinding poverty because we could find no-skilled jobs to save money for college while in middle and high school.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Better yet; a one-way trip in a cattle car to southern Mexico. Anyone caught re-entering the United States will do one year in detention (work gang) and then returned to Mexico, again.

[SoldierDad]

In case you don't know what immigrants do in this country, the Latinos have a word for it--trabajo. They've been mowing the lawns, cleaning the offices, hammering the nails and picking the tomatoes, not to mention all that dish-washing, diaper-changing, meat-packing and poultry-plucking.

Emergency rooms in this country are packed will illegals getting free medical service that I have to subsidize by extremely high premiums on my health care. They can buy a home (for some unknown reason) where I'm told I make too much money for any assistance, but have too high of debt to qualify for a loan. They receive public assistance (welfare) and food stamps while driving around in vehicles that are new or nearly new (while I'm driving a vehicle that's eight years old). They are sending billions of the dollars they earn illegally in this country back to Mexico or Central American or Asia, or wherever they are from (which means that money is taken out of our economy). No, we do not owe them - they owe us and big time at that.

[meandog]

Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them wetbacks movin’ Rawhide!

(whip crack sound, Howard Dean yell)

Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just deport and disband ‘em,
Soon we’ll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart’s calculatin’
My true country’s ’waitin’, waiting at the end of our ride.

(whip crack and Howard Dean yell)

Move ‘em on, head ‘em up,
Head ‘em up, move ‘em out,
Move ‘em on, head ‘em out Rawhide!
Set ‘em out, ride ‘em in
Ride ‘em in, let ‘em out,
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in Rawhide.

(multiple whip cracks and Howard Dean yells)

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Though the Rio Grande is swollen
Keep them wetbacks rollin’
Rawhide!

(two whip cracks and a Howard Dean yell)

Rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin’ George Bush was by my side.
All the things that he’s forgettin’,
His legacy he’ll be regrettin’
Are waiting at the end of his ride

CHORUS
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up
Head ‘em up, move ‘em on
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up
Rawhide
Count ‘em out, ride ‘em in,
Ride ‘em in, count ‘em out,
Count ‘em out, ride ‘em in
Rawhide!

(multiple whip cracks and Howard Dean yells)

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All right, they committed a "crime"...

Notice the quotes.

[GOPJ]

In a different time, Barbara Ehrenreich would have sung the praises of slavery. All those happy blacks working in the fields, singing, and sooooooo happy.

[goodnesswins]

HA....I wonder how many illegals she has hired for work around her domicile.....

[Howie66]

America owes the Illegal Aliens NADA.

“Mexicano, Go Home!!”

[ExTexasRedhead]

We owe them nada!

[claudiustg]

If Barbie feels so guilty about the illegals maybe she should make it good out of her considerable nest egg — if she’s not too busy with the elliptical trainer and private nursery school.

[P-40]

I’m betting quite a few....and I’ll also bet she thought she was doing them a ‘kindness’ by hiring them.

[ExTexasRedhead]

This issue crosses Party lines. Anyone that supports this destruction of our country is toast, IMO. They can start looking for their private sector jobs today as if anyone would have them.

[stylin19a]

Undocumented immigrants annually pay an estimated $7 billion more than they take out into Social Security, and $1.5 billion more into Medicare..

um....where to start ?