Racists win 2.0

[Dinner]

Originally posted by PLATO
Only when Congress is willing to throw business under the bus by requiring them to prove work elgibility or be fined will the country stop being a magnent for low wage illegal aliens.

The funny thing is that bill actually did require this. That's why so many businesses were opposed to the bill; it put the monkey on their back to insure they were hiring legal workers and increased penalties if they got caught.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Oerdin


The funny thing is that bill actually did require this. That's why so many businesses were opposed to the bill; it put the monkey on their back to insure they were hiring legal workers and increased penalties if they got caught.

Really? Are you sure? This is the first I had heard of that portion. I would find it incredible that Congress would actually do this. Maybe somebody up there has some balls after all...even if there is yet to be a sign of a brain.

[Sprayber]

Free bus rides to Canada is our only hope


Canadians need more workers and they are way more accepting than we are Its a win for everyone.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Re: Racists win 2.0

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I was going to post this in the previous immigration bill thread, but it has mysteriously disappeared. Imagine that.

I'm sure someone somewhere saved it for reference if you need it.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Oerdin


And when will these great mass deportations begin?

I don't have any big plans for today. We could start right now.

[Drake Tungsten]

You are all crowing about your great victory from the inside of the trap you fools!

The GOP just endend any Hispanic support for it for a generation.

You must have me confused with someone who cares about the GOP's political fortunes. All I care about is smart policy, which this immigration bill most certainly wasn't.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm sure someone somewhere saved it for reference if you need it.

Nice.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Re: Racists win 2.0

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
I'm sure someone somewhere saved it for reference if you need it.

JohnT came back?

[Barnabas]

Why not do both things?

Build the great wall of Texas so no one else gets in

But give american citizenship to illegals who are already in.

Something like those in, stay in, but no one else gets in.

[Kuciwalker]

How about instead:

Give American citizenship to illegals who are already in, and

Make it no longer illegal for the rest to come in.

edit: something like "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

[Drake Tungsten]

Bad idea, unless you Yanks want your own Quebec.

[Kuciwalker]

We need someone to make fun of. And the analogy does really work - the French were already there when the Brits took Quebec.

[Drake Tungsten]

The analogy works if you consider the reasons why French-Canadians were never successfully subsumed into the Anglo culture of the rest of Canada, ie. that a large enough group of people who speak the same language and share the same national identity are really hard to assimilate. That's one reason you should want your immigrant population to be as diverse as possible. An open border with Mexico achieves the exact opposite...

[Kuciwalker]

We want an open border with pretty much everyone else, too. And we seem to have been doing an okay job so far (with an effectively open one).

[Drake Tungsten]

Don't get me wrong, I think it's in the best interest of America to have huge numbers of immigrants. I just think the immigration should be managed to achieve ethnic/cultural diversity and to value skills/usefulness to American society over family ties, something that is impossible if illegal immigration/open borders are the main source of your immigrant population. The main priority for the US is to fix its broken legal immigration system. Naturalizing the current illegals (which will have to be done at some point) can and should wait until significant progress has been made in replacing America's dependence on illegal aliens with legal ones.