Monday, May 22, 2006

Another Great Post by Orcinus

The Southwest Strategy. I have to rely on the work of others b/c frankly, he's done a better job than I would have time to right now.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anti-immigration sentiments have always been rooted in racism and xenophobia. There is very little logic to what anti-immigration folks say (i.e. terroism & immigration, welfare abuse & immigrants, immigrants & social services, etc). Such thinking has existed since the 1800s when droves of immigrants came to the US; back then even legally (Elis Island) admitted immigrants faced racism.

People who claim the anti-immigration debate is not based on racism are either naive or in denial. You can sugar coated it anyway you want, the bottom line is racism.

this debate won't end with the november elections. Immigration will exist for generations to come.

My hope is that the bill to criminalize undocument immigrants never becomes law. it is the reason why this issue became so pressing--that and the president's desire to distract us from the failed war in Iraq. It would be nice if our great country took positive steps to integrate the millions of undocument people here--as the President has said, mass deportation of the 11 million or so illegals is not going to happen.

6:43 PM
Anonymous said...

On the positive side, the disingenous appeals conservatives use to move Hispanics into the republican column - religion, family, traditional values - are not working as well these days. Seems those factors are losing out to the hate Latino immigrants are feeling from the right. Let's hope the Dems can capitalize on this by introducing legislation that helps people make the transition from low paying jobs and marginalization to mainstream american life. Face it, they come to work but it's no prize to be stuck in those jobs forever. In the short-term it's the lesser of evils but long term there has to be progress out of that bottom rung. Maybe the progressives on the left side of the aisle can bring something to the table that goes farther than just "they're doing jobs no one else wants to do."

8:50 PM

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