Reply #25: Puhleeeze, peddle your broadbrush BS somewhere else

[MadHound]

If a person is here legally, I don't care if where they're from or what the color of their skin is. In fact, personally I'm hoping for a greater increase in Latino immigrants. Why, because I'm looking into the future and growing produce, like mouse melons, that are an intigral ingredient in the cuisine south of the border. More immigrants means more sales which means more money for me.

But illegal immigration I oppose. I know too many carpenters and other folks who were put on the unemployment line because the company that they worked for figured that their profits would go up by hiring illegals whom they could pay slave wages.

Does that mean that I want to oppress the illegals? No, I want to punish the companies vigorously, and start forcing them to pay decent wages to their employees. If somebody wants to go through the immigration process and come up from Mexico and get that well paying job legally, great. But don't be coming up illegally and undercut the wages of a citizen here in the states.

Due to my mixed blood, I'm an all American mutt, I can't afford to have such prejudices that you describe, and I don't think that your broad brush attacks apply to the vast majority of people on this board. Just because somebody disagrees with you over this issue doesn't make them a racist, and trying to paint people as such is insulting and poor form. Why not go out and find real answers to my concerns rather than taking the easy way out and dismissing your opponents as racist.