What are your thoughts on the new minuteman border patrol?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Odin
The Republicans want to let them stay to please business intrests, but want them to stay "illegal" so the racist/xenophobic branch of the party is not angered.

Why do you exclude the farmers from the racists?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
And they're not "tips",

Sure it is. *wink* *nudge* That's probably why the comic gives no information on the steps for seeking a US visa.

[Whoha]

Re: What are your thoughts on the new minuteman border patrol?

Yea theres that whole freedom of assembly thing.

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


Which is complete and utter horse**** because illegal immigrants pump more money into the government through (illegally collected) taxes than they take out in government benefits...they can't claim taxes owed back to them since they don't have SSNs and even applying for federal benefits risks drawing attention to their illegal status. I don't have a link, but in my Anthro class we're studying the plight of illegal immigrants ("undocumented workers" pc bs) entering, then leaving, then entering, then leaving, then entering the US again seasonally. Give me a f*cking break. Mr. Gilchrist, I'd pay $1000 to see you breaking your back 7 days a week for an entire season picking strawberries for sh*t pay, no benefits, and constant criminal exposure to pesticides. Call me when you've decided you want the job for yourself instead of some Mexican having it and you can collect your reward from me...

Bull****. First off we suffer a 10 Billion dollar tax loss to these people. Then we lose out on Remittances, money they send home. We don't run a trade surplus with them so all of that money just leaves our economy. Then we lose out on the fact that Businesses have so much labor that they don't have to innovate and move up to requiring manufacturing and tech. Then our legal immigrants lose out because the people that compete for their jobs are: you guessed it, those illegals.

I find it troubling that you would think that we need a ghettoized slave labor class in this country for any reason.

[Kidlicious]

Whoha

[Wycoff]

I'd join the patrol if I had the time to do so.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
I'm talking about the term "minuteman". Do they think it gives them legitimacy?

French equivalents drape themselves in Joan of Arc.


But, really, this is just a cover for impotent bullies to rape, lynch, and kill scapegoats they blame for their own failings.

[Kidlicious]

I started the process to become a border patrol agent once. Luckily the process to become a federal agent is long so before I became one I changed my mind because I didn't believe in the work.

[Shi Huangdi]

All these people are doing is patroling parts of the border, and reporting any illegal crossers to the border patrols. That's all they are doing: reporting law breakers to law enforcement.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
All these people are doing is patroling parts of the border, and reporting any illegal crossers to the border patrols. That's all they are doing: reporting law breakers to law enforcement.

You forget that patrolmen and women are nothing more than vile, inbred Eichmanns eager to wage a genocidal attack on noble, good hearted, and valiant oppressed people who are coming to our land with the purest of intentions.

[Kidlicious]

That statement isn't far enough from the truth to be good sarcasm.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Kidicious
That statement isn't far enough from the truth to be good sarcasm.

Heard of the MS-13s?

[Kidlicious]

I've lived in California all my life. I know people who have immigrated here from Mexico undocumented and I know lots of anti-immigration racists also.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I've lived in California all my life. I know people who have immigrated here from Mexico undocumented and I know lots of anti-immigration racists also.

Anti-immigration and anti-illegal immigration aren't mutually inclusive positions.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Wycoff


Anti-immigration and anti-illegal immigration aren't mutually inclusive positions.

If you oppose making immigration legal than you are anti-immigration. Either you deny people the right to cross a line or you don't.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Kidicious
If you oppose making immigration legal than you are anti-immigration. Either you deny people the right to cross a line or you don't.

Being against illegal immigration doesn't mean you must be against all forms of immigration. It only means that you demand that all prospective immigrants follow the legal processes necessary to immigrate legally to the country. The border patrol isn't concerned with green card holding resident aliens, it's concerned with illegal intruders.