Digital Omen
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Yes I am, a city where over 60% of the population is foreign born (not all are "spicy cacs" either. Plenty of Black Haitians, Jamaicans, and other Caribbean folk here- not to mention Black Hispanics). Some are American citizens, others permanent residents, others waiting for asylum or got parole/TPS, others got/get preferential treatment (Cubans- what a strong voting bloc does), others came with a tourist visa and stayed (illegal), and others just showed up illegally (smuggling).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
The Forgotten Letter of Coretta Scott Kingwww.huffpost.com
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?
Believe it or not, not all of them are evil invaders here to take your jobs or murder you in your sleep. Are some scumbags, criminals, and rapists? Absolutely. So are some born and raised Americans of all colors. If you're worried about a non-english speaking immigrant with no legal status taking your job I wish you the best of luck in your future LinkedIn endeavors. As for the jobs they do take, let's ask Alabama how that worked out:
"Industries dependent on migrant labor were dealt a severe blow. Farmers could not fill the void created by the loss of workers who had once plowed fields and planted crops, which were now rotting and threatening the state’s economy." B-b-b-b-but they're taking our jobs!! Why didn't Americans rush to plow fields and plant crops?
A Cruel Legacy: Alabama anti-immigrant law remembered
www.splcenter.org
I know the coli and TLR hates "spicy cacs" and immigrants (of all colors) in general so not going to waste my time other than to say I do in fact support deporting every single illegal TODAY. When the American economy crashes tomorrow, oh well.