A couple of thoughts about all this immigration bruhaha

[Maestro]

breaking out here. The repiglicans are going to use this against us progressive democrats because they will frame it as though we are willing to either ignore the undocumented workers or are xenophobic isolationists a la Pat Buchanan.

The repukes are crafting a bill that will do nothing to really fix anything as far as I can tell if I understand the bill correctly. There was indeed a similar project in the fifties which allowed temporary workers to come and work in the fields as migrant workers back in the 50's if I remember correctly. It was called the brazero program.

(from another post of mine)
In regards to illegal immigration, I still contend that no amount of "reform" in immigration will help until cheap labor conservatives are smacked down hard for hiring undocumented workers. These are the ones that are propagating the continuation of a near or below poverty sub-strata of our society. The reasons so many risk so much to come here is that there is work even if it is at slave wages. It's better than nothing which is what they had in their home country.

Democrats need to foucs their attention on corporations like Brinker, Inc here in Dallas for example that continue to hire undocumented workers. When an occasional INS raid takes place in one of their kitchens, Brinker receives a small fine and the undocumented workers are gathered up like cattle and shipped off as if they were so some sort of criminal splitting up families. The real criminals are the cheap labor conservatives who refuse to pay Americans a decent wage with benefits and rather pay slave wages to undocumented workers.

Much of the anger here at DU is not aimed at the responsible parties. All culpability lies in these cheap labor conservatives. I just hate seeing at DU a Pat Buchananesque "close the borders" mentality. The American worker needs protection, yes! However, blaming those that are least responsible and least capable of fighting back is a repiglican technique; not a democratic one.

Respectfully submitted....