Massive demonstration right outside my window!

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Re: Re: 500,000 Immigrants March the Streets of LA

Originally posted by Wycoff


The whole "they're doing what Americans won't do" (or it's equivalent "they're doing the jobs white people won't do") thing is a myth or, at best, a half truth. Go to rural America. Who's working those jobs? White people (*gasp*). This line of argumentation really is "these people work more cheaply than Americans," and it just serves as a way to undercut American workers.

I lived in Rural America, Wisconsin. Town of 6,000 legal residents, 3,000 of whom were Migrant workers who farmed the fields, built the developments, etc etc. And there were probably closer to 8,000 people...but not all of them legal.

I don't remember anything about "American workers being undercut". If anything, the migrant population allowed the small town to actually revitalize, and the town is now home to thriving industrial and residential areas, and some pretty damn good burritos.

[Drake Tungsten]

Latinos: doing work American men won't do

Latinas: doing men American women won't do

[Wycoff]

Re: Re: Re: 500,000 Immigrants March the Streets of LA

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
I don't remember anything about "American workers being undercut". If anything, the migrant population allowed the small town to actually revitalize, and the town is now home to thriving industrial and residential areas, and some pretty damn good burritos.

I'd like to know what they illegals were getting paid to do their work. Why pay an American $10 an hour when you can pay an illegal $4?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Latinos: doing work American men won't do

Latinas: doing men American women won't do

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Latinos: doing work American men won't do

Latinas: doing men American women won't do

[DanS]

Immigration reform protests...

I know the protestors think that they are sticking up for their own rights, but man do they have tin political ears.

(1) Waving Mexican flags
(2) Holding signs in Spanish
(3) Holding signs advocating amnesty
(4) Holding signs promoting the communists at ANSWER

[OzzyKP]

Two people beat you to it.

[DanS]

Those threads weren't named very well (no offense to the thread creators).

[MRT144]

this really does show me that some people arent willing to integrate into american society because of an irrational fear of losing culture and identity. we dont want those people in america. they can go suck on a lemon.

[DanS]

You see, that's exactly the response most Americans will have when they see a Mexican flag waving on American streets. If Mexico is your home, then go the hell home. That's the response I have, and I'm about as pro immigration as they come.

It might play well politically in Mexico City, but the audience for influencing a bill in the congress covers a different geography entirely.

[David Floyd]

You see, that's exactly the response most Americans will have when they see a Mexican flag waving on American streets. If Mexico is your home, then go the hell home.

Agreed. And learn goddamn English if you're gonna stay. Speaking Spanish only in the United States is f-ing ridiculous.

[David Floyd]

You see, that's exactly the response most Americans will have when they see a Mexican flag waving on American streets. If Mexico is your home, then go the hell home.

Agreed. And learn goddamn English if you're gonna stay. Speaking Spanish only in the United States is f-ing ridiculous.

[MRT144]

i want mexican immigrants waving a dual flag or something. im not blind to the fact that heritage is important to most people but thats something that becomes less important the more american you become

[DanS]

It appears that the protestors want to communicate defiance by waving the Mexican flag. Or maybe they're trying to show pride in their heritage. But either way, their intended audience will take it a certain way that isn't positive for their cause.

Who is organizing these protests?

[MRT144]

yeah, thats for damn sure.