Repub racism coming home to roost

[SHRED]

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You know, the ones who think they can judge a person's legal status to be in the USA by the color of their skin.
The ones who see an emergency room crowded with Hispanic looking people and immediately think they are "illegals" rather than think these are the working poor who are either citizens or legally here (most in ER's are "legal").
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN26407393
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/27/healthcare-immigrant/

Well these race based bashers are now getting what they deserve.
The Republican Party is sealing it's fate to be a minority party...forever:

Poll: Hispanics shift toward Democrats
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071206/ap_on_el_pr/hispanic_voters_poll

The RW harps on the false notion that the Hispanic immigrant is mainly here illegally for the "welfare" and medical "handouts". They love playing the "lazy Mexican" stereotype card.
This is now hurting them politically.

I believe we do have issues with the labor pool being deluded with cheap labor from the south and don't overlook the high tech sector and the H1B and school visa overstay abuse, but that is an employer issue.
To get to the root, which I believe is illegal hiring, we must focus on each other (our friends and neighbors who pick up day laborers, nannys, etc.. illegally) and the corporations who also employ illegally to save a buck.

We hold the solution and it is not as expensive as trying to stop every single person from coming here illegally over thousands of miles border.
I do think tighter security at the borders is in order but if we, as a Nation, changed our minds and made it unbearable on those who hire illegally, the side affects of creating this draw via offering employment, which include driving down of wages and mass border crossing, I believe, would dwindle to manageable levels.

Republicans seem to be busy self-marginalizing into a regional southern, white evangelical party allied with national business interests.

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sidenote: this post is a compiled post from bits and pieces of earlier posts I made.

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[msedano]

1. not all cheap labor comes from our southern border

there's a shitload of undocs from ireland, ditto other euro origin folks. canada's an easy target for asian and bosnian immigrants in a two-step run for the border.

i advocate you not associate "diluted labor pool" with immigrants of any origin. two separate issues.

[SHRED]

2. Why did you only pick half of that sentence?

Here is what you omitted:

"...don't overlook the high tech sector and the H1B and school visa overstay abuse,..."

[msedano]

3. because i fully understand your point, and

the other parts of the sentence aren't as specifically biased.

[Kleber]

4. "Illegal" Immigration as Capitalist Tool

The entire phenomenon of "Illegal" Immigration needs to be examined in the context of the struggle against Capitalism.

The Capitalist puppet-government of Mexico encourages the exodus in order to remove the pressure that it would otherwise face from the impoverished masses. The inevitable revolution in Mexico can be delayed indefinitely as long as potential supporters can be sent North to obtain money to prop up the economy.