Re: Fuck the immigrants!

On 4 Nov 2003 13:57:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayo) wrote:

>I believe in any case that the debate is healthy, but the xenophobia
>and hate displayed is not. Illegal immigrants are not all criminals
>(probably very few are), in most cases they are highly motivated
>workers because they really want to improve their situation.


I quote part of a Drudge article from this morning:

"The plaintiffs, who face deportation for being illegal immigrants, also
accuse Wal-Mart and its contractors of discriminating against them by
giving them lower wages and fewer benefits than other workers because of
their national origin."

I quote this because it references not the criminal illegal aliens, but
because it gives a hint of the impact on our country.  It suggests that
businesses, in this case, WalMart, would prefer to, even at the risk of
getting caught, break the law by NOT paying a legal wage, and withholding
otherwise required benefits to these people.

When these people apply for a job, who do you think gets hired?  The legal
citizen, who would require the business to pay their taxes as they should,
or the criminal illegal alien who, because they are not going to file
anyway, allows the business to get out of paying a fair wage?

Three guesses - and the first two don't count!

I the midwest, 10-15 years ago, a meat cutter got $15 per hour.  Now they
make $9.00 per hour.  The difference is that mass illegal immigration
provided a bunch of cheaper labor and brought the cost of labor down.
Don't even think that this impacted the price of meat!  What it did do was
pad the pockets of the businesses hiring the illegal immigrants.  WE, the
consumer, saw no such decrease in the price of our meat.

Kitty II