Reply #92: Thank you, AlphaCentauri. Good link and good post.

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If Cuckoobananas thinks Social Security is in trouble, and if Social Security is dependant on billions of dollars they take in from undocumented immigrants for which they'll never have to pay out anything in return, I can certainly see why Cuckoobananas wouldn't want to curtail undocumented immigrants. In fact it leaves little but racism to explain the motives of those who do.

There's a movie I hope to see someday called, "A Day Without a Mexican," which shows what would happen if all the undocumented workers suddenly disappeared. It isn't pretty. People can pretend they don't know who is watching their kids, mowing their lawns, cooking the meals, washing their dishes, cleaning their homes, harvesting their food, etc., etc., and they can even pretend that they "forgot" to pay Social Security for people they hired--often at below minimum wage, but if those people suddenly disappeared, the exploiting class would wake up in shock.

As someone else pointed out in this thread, it is like the drug war. So long as Americans create a demand for drugs, somebody will find a way to fill it. So long as we have a demand for cheap labor, somebody will find a way to fill it. I agree with the many DUers who have suggested that if you don't want undocumented workers, all you have to do is go after the people employing them. If immigration can arrest undocumented workers, they could certainly defer those arrests for a short time while they follow those workers to their places of employment and arrest the people causing the problem. But the minute the pukes started putting rich, white business owners in prison for employing undocumented workers, they'd stop getting campaign contributions from them. So they talk a good game and do nothing. If the Minutemen really want to stop undocumented workers from crossing the border, they'd be massing around the businesses and farms that employ them, and campaigning against the pukes those farms and businesses contribute to. All they want to do is whip up anti-immigrant sentiment and foment violence. Treating the symptom instead of the cause never solves anything.