On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:59:46 -0800 (PST), walkmar@easystreet.net
wrote:
>On Jan 14, 3:32 pm, "Steven L." wrote:
>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>> > Machiavelli wrote in
>> >news:24pmo357umj3i31tjbceg4tq3l5fem87rk@4ax.com:
>>
>> >> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:17:23 -0800 (PST), "Speeders & Drunk Drivers
>> >> are MURDERERS" wrote:
>>
>> >>> On Jan 13, 5:10 pm, Machiavelli wrote:
>>
>> >>>> The children of illegal aliens are given automatic citizenship because
>> >>>> the courts have continuously misinterpreted the 14th Amendment.
>>
>> >>>> The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of
>> >>>> native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as
>> >>>> recently-freed slaves. It was written in a manner so as to prevent
>> >>>> state governments from ever denying citizenship to blacks born in the
>> >>>> United States.
>>
>> >>>> The children born of Black slaves in the United States were granted
>> >>>> citizenship even though their parents were born outside the United
>> >>>> States. Black slaves were not illegal. They were illegally taken from
>> >>>> their home country. On the other hand, illegal aliens willingly came
>> >>>> into this country illegally.
>>
>> >>>> The following link explains the 14th Amendment.
>>
>> >>>>http://www.14thamendment.us/birthright_citizenship/original_intent.html
>>
>> >>>> Congress should show the guts to produce an amendment to the 14th
>> >>>> Amendment to clarify its original intent.
>> >>> It's not a matter of guts - it's about corruption. Our
>> >>> congressgangsters are paid big bucks by the illegal-alien profiteer
>> >>> corporations. The only way to stop it is with an angry mob that will
>> >>> drag a congressman out of his house and hang him.
>> >> It's guts. Why do think that media drives the point that Republicans
>> >> are alienating Hispanics? The DNC is the party of illegals. It's not
>> >> all corporations. Small businesses also employ illegal aliens.
>>
>> > Which party is always whining about "government
>> > interference in the marketplace" and "federal restrictions
>> > on small business"? Republicans are all about using the
>> > cheapest labor they can find, remember? Of course there is
>> > no progress on immigration.
>>
>> > Republicans love to talk about illegal immigration as
>> > long as nothing actually is DONE about it............
>>
>> > Illegal workers: good for U.S. economy
>> > CNNMoney
>> > May 1, 2006
>>
>> > "Immigration is actually critical," said Bernard Baumohl,
>> > executive director of the Economic Outlook Group, a research
>> > group in Princeton Junction, N.J. "It allows the U.S. economy
>> > to grow more rapidly without higher inflation pressures."
>>
>> > Some economists argue that not only do U.S. consumers benefit
>> > from lower prices as a result of the low wages most immigrants
>> > are paid, but that the availability of lower-wage labor helps
>> > create more work for higher-skilled, higher-paid workers who
>> > are generally native born. "If I'm a builder and I can hire more
>> > wallboard guys cheaply, my (ability to use) skilled carpenters
>> > goes up," said Northeastern's Sum.
>>
>> > A crackdown in illegal immigration in 2004 caused a shortage of
>> > workers needed to bring in the lettuce crop in the Western United
>> > States, said Powell, which he said caused a $1 billion loss for
>> > the industry as many growers had to leave their fields unharvested.
>>
>> This is a false dichotomy, Mitchell.
>>
>> In Japan, they don't have illegal immigrants and they don't need any.
>> They have developed robots to do all the work of harvesting veggies out
>> of the crops on the farm. Japan has invested more in robotic technology
>> than any other nation.
>>
>> Robotics can eliminate the need for any most manual human labor, whether
>> immigrant or native-born.
>>
>> If illegal immigration were stopped, it would be an incentive for
>> agribusiness to invest heavily in robotic processing, just as the
>> Japanese have done.
>>
>> --
>> Steven L.
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>You can't pick strawberries with a machine, unless you're talking
>about those hard, carboard-like California strawberries (or similarly
>inedible California tomatoes) that are picked when they're green.
>Produce that is easy to pick by machine is lousy to eat.
>
>Republicans like illegal immigrants because Republicans like paying
>low wages and providing no benefits; Democrats like illegal immigrants
>because, well, they are always for the underdog.
You, too, go the same old lie that Republicans own all the businesses
and that illegal aliens only come to the United States to pick
produce.
>
>Everyone benefits from immigrant labor - legal or not. The only reason
>people object is for racist reasons: because they don't like seeing
>(or hearing) a lot of Mexicans around.
>
Being against illegal immigration is racist? Boy, you have bought the
liberal lie hook, line and sinker.
>A generation in the future, all those Mexican babies born in this
>country will be Americans through and through. If you like affordable
>food, housing and manufactured goods, there is no downside to the
>illegal immigration "problem".
>
Your are dense. Babies born in this country of illegals do not become
the future produce pickers, janitors, construction gofers or
restaurant workers of America. For once in your life, listen to
yourself and see how stupid your above statement is. |