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Why are the Rethugs so afraid of immigration reform? (Original Post) SummerSnow Nov 2014 OP
Many of them are haters! They hate anyone getting some rights. They just love to persecute RKP5637 Nov 2014 #1
Their masters will lose cheap labor Peregrine Nov 2014 #2
I know one for whom it's personal -- he fell in love with an Eastern European.... moriah Nov 2014 #3
Health insurance helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #4
Easy Iamthetruth Nov 2014 #14
I agree we do in hospital costs but I bet this is a large issue helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #18
why are they afraid of universal healthcare? social security? food stamps? spanone Nov 2014 #5
It is a party of sociopaths! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2014 #16
Afraid of offending the Bigot Base. JEB Nov 2014 #6
Selfishness. n/t YvonneCa Nov 2014 #7
Politics. AngryAmish Nov 2014 #8
Tut Tut malaise Nov 2014 #9
Post removed Post removed Nov 2014 #10
No it's not helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #11
That's just a pesky little detail that they will never mention. JeffHead Nov 2014 #12
Sorry I didn't know you were being sarcastic helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #13
Cheap, powerless labor. moondust Nov 2014 #15
that's all it is helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #19
Racists for exploitation and cheap labor can do little else. TheKentuckian Nov 2014 #17
Because brown people. stranger81 Nov 2014 #20
Because it would mean Jamaal510 Nov 2014 #21
Because they are hypocrites... Spazito Nov 2014 #22
Their Tea Party base CanonRay Nov 2014 #23
I dont see it so much as a racial issue davidn3600 Nov 2014 #24

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
1. Many of them are haters! They hate anyone getting some rights. They just love to persecute
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:07 PM
Nov 2014

people IMO. The republican party has managed to gather many haters, religious freaks and crackpots under one tent.

Peregrine

(992 posts)
2. Their masters will lose cheap labor
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:11 PM
Nov 2014

Where safety rules don't apply.

They don't want to end illegal immigration. There's money in that labor pool.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
3. I know one for whom it's personal -- he fell in love with an Eastern European....
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:12 PM
Nov 2014

.... he'd met online. They wouldn't let his love immigrate legally (and fiance visas SUCK to get), and she disappeared.

So he really resents illegal immigrants when he couldn't make the process work to do it legally.

 

helpmetohelpyou

(589 posts)
18. I agree we do in hospital costs but I bet this is a large issue
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:52 PM
Nov 2014

where many Republican and I bet also many Democrats who own
large farms where they employee more than 50 fulltime workers
do not want to see these workers legalized .

There is an exception in the ACA where they can be exempt for provding health care
for transit workers but many of those farms do employ workers for longer than 120 days
a year. If they do they have to provide them healthcare.

Also another industry is the meat packing where now they have this flow of cheap labor
without providing any health insurance.

I'm fucking glad this is all going to end

spanone

(135,636 posts)
5. why are they afraid of universal healthcare? social security? food stamps?
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:14 PM
Nov 2014

and on and on.

as a political party they are heartless.

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
8. Politics.
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:16 PM
Nov 2014

Immigrants tend to vote democratic. We are becoming/have become a multi-racial society.

In multi-racial societies ( or even multi ethnic) politics are decided by race or ethnicity. So republifucks are the white party by and large, and the democrats are the roundheads and everyone else.

Response to SummerSnow (Original post)

 

helpmetohelpyou

(589 posts)
11. No it's not
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:23 PM
Nov 2014

It will be many years before any of them will be able to apply for citizenship
providing if they ever do at all.

Some will but the majority won't bother

JeffHead

(1,186 posts)
12. That's just a pesky little detail that they will never mention.
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:31 PM
Nov 2014

Kinda blows up the whole talking point.

moondust

(19,917 posts)
15. Cheap, powerless labor.
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 08:40 PM
Nov 2014

No rights = easy to tyrannize while pocketing nearly all the profits.

Maybe even better than slavery for the soulless exploiter due to no overhead keeping slaves alive and healthy enough to work. Illegal gets sick, just get another one.

And the assumption that many will at some point need government services (because GOP cronies got rid of millions of jobs) which means taxes that Republicans don't want to pay.

And, of course, putrid racism.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
21. Because it would mean
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 09:27 PM
Nov 2014

that their handlers would have to pay their immigrant employees the same as everyone else instead of cheap wages. People are saying it's because they're racist/xenophobic, but I doubt they really care about the "furrners" coming here nearly as much as their rabid base does.

Spazito

(49,765 posts)
22. Because they are hypocrites...
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 09:34 PM
Nov 2014

They were just fine with it when Reagan and Bush Sr. did it, it's only when a Democratic President does it that causes them to froth at the mouth.

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
24. I dont see it so much as a racial issue
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 10:03 PM
Nov 2014

I see it as a class issue.

The Republicans hate anybody who is poor...even white people who are poor. They view them as "moochers."

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