Thursday, July 29, 2010
Immigration, the new abortion
Really the hot-button and most controversial issue of today. Oh God the heady days of Operation Rescue and a used-car salesman named Randall Terry but that was back in the day. That issue is now in a Tupperware safely tucked away in the back of the icebox. We all have our positions as is well-known and we don't belabor it anymore. George Will believes the issue has become stale, not so immigration. There's also the same polarization, the same division and passion which is why the issue never gets resolved. The way I see it EITHER round up and deport all those, what is it now 12 million? illegal aliens or better yet (my position) regularize the majority who are hard-working and responsible and family-oriented. Problem being half, probably a majority would really like the former and the other half (or less) is like me. Now if the 12 million are allowed to stay here in their twilight legal status this is in effect affording them a privilege, the privilege of living and working here and we'll look the other way. My position is this is phony, better to make them official. As regards the AZ law while I'm no constitutional scholar my gut tells me they have the right to set their own policy. Sure it's a police state and I deeply disagree with it but for the Obama Justice Dept. to take them to court strongly smacks of racial pandering in an important midterm election year. I'd like to do something with these folks and rounding 'em up and sending 'em all back home doesn't seem feasible. Perhaps it does to you, dunno if this is the official right-wing position but it seems to be. Si es Goya tiene que ser bueno.
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You don't round them up in one fell swoop but you do as Fred Thompson suggested in 2008 which is you do it by attrition. A few here, a few there. Of course for this to work you can't very well have porous borders.
ReplyDeletehmmmmmm, but we're not even doing that. I'm just trying to be practical.
ReplyDeleteWell it seems to me that Arizona was making every attempt to do that and now they're lifting the boot from off their face.
ReplyDeleteBut WHY are people so passionate about the issue?? As I've said it's the new abortion and if you're a conservative do you have to take this position? Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City, kind of police-statish no?
ReplyDeleteWhy are people so passionate about the issue?
ReplyDeletePeople find a sense of unity in having a common enemy. With the Revolution, it was the British. After that, and for centuries afterwards (and still today), it was blacks. At various times during the 19th and first half of the 20th it was shuttled between different national groups; 'no Irish need apply', and that went for the Chinese, the Italians, and the Eastern Europeans, in turn. During WWII it was the Germans and the Japanese. And during the Cold War, it was the Russians. After 9/11 the whole country got together in a huge orgasm of hate for everything Middle Eastern and/or Islamic.
But that's external hatred, and if there's anything Americans are known for, it's choosing a group to marginalize right at home (see above). Basically, it's the Mexicans' turn.
A large part of American industry and production depends on these workers. I can tell you that they work for dogshit on a cracker and live in conditions you wouldn't let your dog suffer through. They work hard doing jobs no one else wants to do, and for the most part, they do it well. My husband works with Mexican crews on jobs virtually every day and says their work ethic kicks American ass.
I think people should come here legally, but I also think that a large sector of our economy would implode if you took all these folks out of the workforce. Amnesty for those who are here, and then tighten the border henceforth.
I don't think we can fix the xenophobia of your average American, though. It's tradition.
Amnesty I think is a slap in the face of anyone who has gone through the proper channels to be a legal citizen. Rounding 12 million up isn't going to happen easily, but just ignoring the facts doesn't seem right either. It goes back to my feeling that personal responsibility being important.
ReplyDelete"My husband works with Mexican crews on jobs virtually every day and says their work ethic kicks American ass."
ReplyDeleteI'll concede much of your post but you might want to let your husband know that for every hardworking Mexican whose work ethic "kicks American ass", I can find you one that's as worthless as a tit on a Tom cat.
Work ethic is not some genitic trait that is carried from generation to generation. We can disabuse ourselves of this silly notion at once.
dogshit on a cracker
ReplyDeletea tit on a Tom cat
This place got that home town feel doesn't it? Got any grits?
(oh wait BB just pulled up)
ReplyDeleteGrits make an excellent side dish. You ever hear of shrimp n grits? I don't eat them anymore, but when I did, it sure was good. My fav anymore is cheese with my grits. And when I worked at New Hanover, every Saturday morning, for breakfast, they'd fry up catfish and serve them with grits. You could see the line coming right out the cafeteria door.
ReplyDeleteYou can use grits anywhere you can use rice. And it'll taste as good or better, unless you're trying to cook Chinese, Japanese, or Indian.
for every hardworking Mexican whose work ethic "kicks American ass", I can find you one that's as worthless as a tit on a Tom cat.
ReplyDeleteKinda goes for every nationality and race, though, doesn't it?
I might point out that imho most of the guys he's working with are significantly motivated to do the job and do it well. Not to mention all the pieceworkers out there who get paid by, obviously, the piece.
Then when these hardworking Mexicans finally become legally assimilated they'll see the handwriting on the wall the way most other mainstream Americans have and that is hard work doesn't pay. I find in my job the harder you work the more work you get, the more is expected of you. Many jobs don't have a reward system in place, you just keep doing the same thing day in and day out. So maybe their work ethic kicks American ass because we know what the work scene is all about and they're just glad to work but they'll learn.
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