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[killgirlswatch]

In a few hours I am going to be attending an Immigrants Rights Demonstration in Kansas City, like the ones in Dallas and Flordia the past few days. I think this is an important issue we all need to pay attention to.

THE UNITED STATES IS A COUNTRY FULL OF IMMIGRANTS! It's extremely hard to find a real, full-blooded American around these days. If

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[arcaeris]

A few points:
"If these laws had been put in place when your family tried to come over here, where would you be now?"

Yeah, my dad got a visa and came over here from Iran legally. My mom's side dates way back to coming from England or somesuch.

"They are here to make a better life for themselves and their families, and who in their right mind would want to stop that?"

The crux of the debate is if you think the "right to work" is an inalienable right that extends beyond international borders. I do not. I know plenty of Mexican immigrants (I live in San Diego, you know?) and think they're great.

The reality is that business owners here are exploiting the shit out of these people. 50% of the time people don't even pay day laborers, since they know the day laborers have no recourse. They know they can't pay Americans or legal aliens these wages, either, because the government would have their ass. Yet produce prices have grown much higher than inflation. For example, as a child I could buy 6 avocados for a dollar. Now it's a sale to find them for $1.50 EACH.

The fact that the wages are better than Mexico is just a testament to how corrupt and bad Mexico is. If you've never been, I suggest you don't go. You're not missing anything but poverty and despair as the people are held down by drug lords. It's sad, but bringing all the Mexicans here isn't making Mexico better.

I don't like this law, but because I don't think it does what it needs to do. There's a lot of propaganda going around on both sides, and that's just crappy. The real point of the law is to punish employers who hire illegal aliens at unfair wages. Of course, laws doing this have been on the books for years, but no one enforces it. I doubt they'll enforce this one either.

We do need to keep people out, though, and if we really need a subclass of immigrants (they might as well be slaves, really) we can get plenty from places. People all over the world would love to come here, so why is it only the ones who can run across the border are the ones who get to? Having people uncontrolled flowing in from Mexico to be exploited here isn't really helping us and in the long run isn't going to help them either.