Tennessee Republican tells 11 year old girl her father has to be deported as tea party crowd cheers

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87. That is not what happened after Reagan's "Amnesty"

That was the term used at the time. Wages have never recovered since. Supply and Demand applied to human beings - sad but true.

I don't think it is "Obama" putting on the show in particular - the target of the original-post was in the "R" column - and it is the "R"s who love to crow about "roundups." The Dems hide behind the "humanitarian" story - and there is one, though I outlined the real-solution in my prior post. During this recession, tens of thousands of "surplus workers" (how the corporations see them) can be sent back without undermining the overall "race to the bottom" poverty-effect of 15 Million undocumented-immigrants - here right now - willing to work for change.

If unemployment was around 1%, then one could argue that giving legal status would raise wages. That is not the case. Unemployment, using the original pre-Reagan calculations, is at record-highs. Underemployment even worse. And, No, I do not "blame Obama," specifically, for the unemployment, like some Limbaugh-listener who doesn't see the "tag-team" switcheroo game for what it is. Outsourcing-tax-breaks and lack of a wage-neutralizing tariff are to blame. I'd like to hear the president reject "Globalization" outright, and "Re-Negotiate NAFTA" as he promised (and back-channel denied the next day), but I'm not holding my breath.