The interesting thing to me about this whole "immigration debate" is that it is bringing the xenophobic racism front and center to clash with the corporatist demand for below market labor (with few if any, benefits.) Joe Six-pack-NASCAR-conservafan can bitch all he wants about how 'dem brown people is takin' jobs from REAL 'murikans but the likelihood that he'll take a job doing graveyard shifts of janitorial work in the high-rises is low to none.
And if he thinks that the bought-and-paid-for-puppet-in-chief is going to close the borders over the complaints of the CEOs...well...that just ain't happenin'. Preznut will deploy just enough Guardsmen for effective photo-ops (thanks Karl!) and raise the rhetoric around October or so before re-deployment sometime before Christmas. And hope that everyone forgets about it for a while.
Posted by joby at May 15, 2006 08:42 PMAs a legal immigrant from W. Europe, I do deplore bush fix on this issue. Let’s enforce our laws before created new one.
This was another try at rising his polls numbers while pacify both the Neocons and the Mexicans. It is too little too little too late for me.
I cannot wait for Rove indictment.
Why not use a guest worker program to fix social security. Write the law that the guest workers have to pay FICA tax but since many won't stay or be allowed to stay and become citizens they would not be able to collect any social security. Just spitballing probably many problems with this idea but if you don't throw out ideas every now and then progress stops. another thought why don't we place an additional tax on the money sent to Mexico and Latin Americans by the indiviuals to help cover the costs in local communities social service incur.