senate immigration bill is totally out of line.

[Pexster]

From another Ruben Navarrette, Jr. column --

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I've been wondering how the father of the [Simpson-Mazzoli] legislation felt about all this. So I dialed the sage of Cody, Wyo., former Sen. Alan Simpson.

Simpson isn't just the chief sponsor of the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, which morphed into IRCA. He is also a friend and was one of my graduate school professors.

He's also delightfully quotable, like when he said that this debate is all about “emotion, fear, guilt and racism.” Or when he said that a lot of the public concern over immigration starts when you “see people in the back yard who are roasting a pig and making a lot of noise and (you) don't understand what language they're talking.” Or when he said to be wary of guest workers because “there's never been a temporary person in the United States; they all want to stay and they do.” Or on his opposition to sending the National Guard to the border because “you're going to have a redneck in there every once in a while who is going to cause real pain.”

[Tramp429]

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Originally Posted by shawshank62

Sorry to hear you lost out on that janitor position to the illegal mexican

What about all the construction workers, factory workers, farmers, etc, who have lost their jobs or have had to work for lower wages because of these people? YOu expect these people to go to college and put on suits to support their family's? It ain't gonna happen in the real world.


You're not even old enough to have seen what has happened to our country over the last 30 years. I've seen what these illegal immigrant's have done to the industry which I work in.



I don't understand why people are showing any kind of sympathy for these illegal immigrants. ALL the LEGAL immigrants I've spoken to on this subject feel similar to the way I do.

[Chuckiechan]

Lets not forget the racism. If you are an Anglo applying for a job as a framer, you won't get a job with a Mexican crew unless you are fluent in Spanish. And that's no guarantee!


They hire their own, but it's politically incorrect to point to any racism against whites by others.