Same TLR soup, just reheated
In any age of rapidly changing political and partisan perspectives, it is perhaps well to remember how the immigration debate was originally framed
back in 1986 when the Reagan/Bush Amnesty plan, put forth to placate the demands of Corporate America for cheap labor, was first enacted. Ignored at the time were
the protests which began
as early as 1969, when Cesar Chavez and members of the United Farm Workers marched with the Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator Walter Mondale to the border with Mexico to demand the cessation of employers’ practice of importing illegal labor as a means of cutting wages and reducing thousands of their workers to the most grinding poverty.
The government’s response to such protests and demands for economic justice? In the 1980s at a time when African American teenage unemployment approached a disgraceful 80 percent, Big Business cynically petitioned the INS for more visas for cheap foreign labor on grounds that there was an “unskilled labor shortage”. They largely got what they demanded. While
Democrats courageously resisted such blatant attempts to lower the wages of legal Hispanic and African Americans,
Reagan Amnesty apologists claimed that Americans wouldn’t stoop to perform the “dirty work” that only illegal workers would perform, ignoring the obvious fact that unemployed legal workers gladly and gratefully collect garbage and work in the coal mines if decent wages were paid.
The Forgotten Letter of Coretta Scott King
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This is how you know corporate media got yall mind. Big Business is the only entity that benefits from illegal immigration. Cesar Chavez knew it too. Stop repeating Pat Buchanan type talking points, yall sound like a chicken begging to get plucked, just dumb for no reason.
Oh, I see you from Miami. Nevermind, then, amirite?
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