Posted on 11/25/2007 7:48:35 PM PST by BGHater
IF President Bush and all his men were truly interested in slowing down the tide of illegal immigrants, all they would have to do is enforce current employment law. With American corporate profiteers willing and able to break laws to increase their bottom line, and our current leadership's willingness to ignore it, one can only expect future problems.
This political negligence serving the White House's constituents can be found if one "follows the money." Bush's proclamation that illegal immigrants are doing work Americans are not willing to do is laughable. America did just fine before this tsunami of immigrants, did it not? What has riled and straitjacketed local and state government to no end is that it is this same federal government that comes down with all its powers to punish those who follow existing laws.
I recently watched a Texas businessman on CNN desperately explain that he had no illegal immigrants to harvest his crops. This farmer stated that it was because of a local construction boom and the illegals went off to higher-paying jobs in the city.
This farmer's worry illustrates the problem. Immigration is all about money and always has been. Farm labor, like being a McDonald's hamburger flipper, has always been entry-level employment.
Will illegal immigrants do our entry-level work for the rest of their lives? That is an insulting notion. As soon as opportunity knocks as a result of all their hard work, they will move on to something better, like all of this nation's former immigrants. If allowed, illegal immigrants and/or their children will be future professionals and public leaders. Make no mistake about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
No disagreement from me...
Martin Walters is a friggin genius!
As long as nobody believes that workplace enforcement is the only viable solution.
That doesn't stop the illegals who cross for reasons that have nothing to do with traditional work. Like it or not (directed at pro-illegal-immigration types) not all illegals are good hard-working people with the same family values we have.
Absolutely! Agree 100%. But why don't they? Sadly the answer is the next sentence from the article: With American corporate profiteers willing and able to break laws to increase their bottom line, and our current leadership's willingness to ignore it, one can only expect future problems.
It's clear to me that President Bush does not want to stop illegal aliens from invading our country. If he did he would have done something substantial about it.
Whenever someone brings up this arguement, I always say “Hey, why don’t we just bring back slavery?” I love to see them backpaddle away from that arguement. It achieves all the same cheap labor goals that they want, but they only disagree with the moniker...
As one popular author put it, Socialize the costs, privatize the profits.
Whenever someone brings up this arguement, I always say “Hey, why don’t we just bring back slavery?” I love to see them backpaddle away from that arguement. It achieves all the same cheap labor goals that they want, but they only disagree with the moniker...illegals are *cheaper* than slaves. an illegal dies at your workplace? oh well, just get another one. disposable rental slaves that you don't have to house. What's not to like for a businessman?
Is this editorial unusual for that publication? I thought all papers in that part of the land were lefty-loosey.
This makes me think of two of the pithy phrases to come out of this debate:
“The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.”
“Importing a 19th-century work force into a 21st-century economy.”
Thank you for posting this....some out there do understand.
Has anyone yet realized that many illegals themselves have businesses and are employing people. We are way past the stage where we can just say, "It's business hiring them."
And those here illegally are not just doing meanial jobs. They own businesses selling satellite TV systems, car lots, restaurants, restaurant chains, car repair facilities, stores, sign companies, printing companies.
Where do the silly notions come from that it is the darn employers and those here illegally can only be found in a field, washing dishes or making beds at hotel?
Please, FR is supposed to be smarter than that.
Our economy managed to survive the end of slavery/sharecropping/Jim Crow.
I find it difficult to believe that all of a sudden we cannot exist without a imported serf class. And just when DID illegal aliens suddenly become indispensable to the economy? Was it when I wasn’t looking? Sometime before 5-7 years ago?
Yeah, back when white people used to have kids....
This is laughable--I spend a lotta time in Seattle, guess what is missing? Kids.... Plenty of illegals working in the restaurants, tho....
If you are in favor of lettuce under $5 a pound, you are in favor of illegal immigration.
Does not change the tactic. I would hope you were legally in the US in order to work or operate a business.
opps, only an opinion piece....that is sad. I actually thought the news was starting to publishing the real story, instead of publishing the illusion.
You should change your name to ‘yes-to-$5-oranges’ it would be more accurate....
believe the lies...I don’t.
Don’t be a defeatist. We are a country of entrepreneurs.
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