Epiphany... Immigration protesters really hate children more.

[DaveJ]

This just occurred to me....

Typical Republicans love cheap labor, and that's why they aren't going after the businesses who hire illegal immigrants.

What they really hate is the fact that their kids might have to share their schools with foreigners' children. And they are threatened by the jobs that immigrants' children might take from them. With a U.S. education and the ability to speak English and legal U.S. status, there is nothing to prevent the children of immigrants from working harder and surpassing other citizens with U.S. ancestry.

Whereas their parents may never rise above being painters or picking produce (which Republicans don't mind), their kids' future has more potential.

The problem is the U.S. economy is more focused on war than on supplying decent jobs to everyone. Immigration protesters would better spend their time trying to find economic solutions.

I think immigration protesters should be called on this. They love cheap labor but hate the children.

[Cleatus7014]

1. Political maneuvering, good and hard

Nahhh, real Republicans only send their kids to private schools anyway.

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Here's something to ponder however: if there is some large amnesty program passed into law, will a lot of former-illegals end up drawing welfare benefits while new illegals continue entering the country?

Consider this:
Illegals put up with low-paying labor jobs like picking produce now, because they don't have citizenship status--and they fear being deported even more than they fear working a low-paying hard-labor job.

But if they get citizenship status, they will likely protest their employers for higher wages/better conditions--and the farmers (and others who employ them) will simply fire them, and find some other class of peoples that can get into the US illegally, and that will work hard labor for such low wages.

So then many of the Central/S Americans picking crops now will lose their jobs, and a lot of them that do will go straight to the welfare office. And the USA will have a huge influx of yet another group of illegals from some-other-region of the world (India or China or wherever, encouraged by the fact that "the Mexicans got citizenship") and a new bunch of "Mexicans" on welfare to boot.
Such a deal, huh?

Should be interesting to see if this actually happens, what will all the Mexicano LA DJ's get on the air and say then?
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[GeorgeGist]

2. The problem is the US economy...

is focused on profits. And the illegal immigrants are attracted to the low-paying jobs which make profits for the US economy.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. Since when is painting a lowely job?

Sounds very classist to me.

[DaveJ]

7. My apologies...

I should have said that undocumented immigrants probably will often be held back into low paying jobs. I should have been more cognoscente that painting is important and should not be underrated.

[femmedem]

4. What they really hate...

would also include paying to educate immigrants' children, I think. In my nearly bankrupt city, there seems to be a growing resentment against families whose taxes don't cover the cost of their kids going to school.

[Kolesar]

5. Are you just musing or do you have some real account about sharing schools

written, verbal, or on tee vee?

[DaveJ]

6. Just musing...

Or, more like piecing together a puzzle that is borne of neoconservative hypocrisy, since their social views are so warped and wrong that they cannot express them in their entirety.

Based on my own observations children of those who are poor or struggled often turn out to be among the most successful, for various reasons. I think that many feel trheatenned by the new generation of immigrants' children who will be fully documented and educated and they may want to hold them back. Can't think of any specific examples though.