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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
1. Immigrants...
Sat May 5, 2012, 02:11 PM
May 2012

When you say "pro-immigrant", do you mean "pro-illegal-immigrant"? As a legal immigrant, I'm getting a little annoyed at being lumped into the same category as them, you know.

Illegal immigrants and amnesty for them are tools of the right wing to destroy labour. Why do you think Reagan and Bush championed amnesty? Look at what's happened to, say, construction and meat-packing in recent decades. Those used to be jobs that paid good, middle class wages -- a step up to the middle class for many people and, especially, for their children, a form of upward mobility. Now they pay subsistence wages at best. Illegal immigration lowers wages in a race to the bottom as much as outsourcing does.

Every country on earth protects its borders. Being pro-illegal-immigration is to be anti-labour. Besides, illegal immigrants from central America into Mexico should wish they have it as good as those in the US.

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