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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are the Rethugs so afraid of immigration reform?
So many threats coming from them.Pathetic
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)people IMO. The republican party has managed to gather many haters, religious freaks and crackpots under one tent.
Peregrine
(992 posts)Where safety rules don't apply.
They don't want to end illegal immigration. There's money in that labor pool.
moriah
(8,311 posts).... he'd met online. They wouldn't let his love immigrate legally (and fiance visas SUCK to get), and she disappeared.
So he really resents illegal immigrants when he couldn't make the process work to do it legally.
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)Iamthetruth
(487 posts)Who pays for the costs?
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)where many Republican and I bet also many Democrats who own
large farms where they employee more than 50 fulltime workers
do not want to see these workers legalized .
There is an exception in the ACA where they can be exempt for provding health care
for transit workers but many of those farms do employ workers for longer than 120 days
a year. If they do they have to provide them healthcare.
Also another industry is the meat packing where now they have this flow of cheap labor
without providing any health insurance.
I'm fucking glad this is all going to end
spanone
(135,636 posts)and on and on.
as a political party they are heartless.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Immigrants tend to vote democratic. We are becoming/have become a multi-racial society.
In multi-racial societies ( or even multi ethnic) politics are decided by race or ethnicity. So republifucks are the white party by and large, and the democrats are the roundheads and everyone else.
malaise
(267,833 posts)Don't you know that America is a white country?
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helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)It will be many years before any of them will be able to apply for citizenship
providing if they ever do at all.
Some will but the majority won't bother
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Kinda blows up the whole talking point.
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)moondust
(19,917 posts)No rights = easy to tyrannize while pocketing nearly all the profits.
Maybe even better than slavery for the soulless exploiter due to no overhead keeping slaves alive and healthy enough to work. Illegal gets sick, just get another one.
And the assumption that many will at some point need government services (because GOP cronies got rid of millions of jobs) which means taxes that Republicans don't want to pay.
And, of course, putrid racism.
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)TheKentuckian
(24,949 posts)stranger81
(2,345 posts)Only white people are real 'Merkins, doncha know?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)that their handlers would have to pay their immigrant employees the same as everyone else instead of cheap wages. People are saying it's because they're racist/xenophobic, but I doubt they really care about the "furrners" coming here nearly as much as their rabid base does.
Spazito
(49,768 posts)They were just fine with it when Reagan and Bush Sr. did it, it's only when a Democratic President does it that causes them to froth at the mouth.
CanonRay
(14,038 posts)hates anyone who isn't white.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)I see it as a class issue.
The Republicans hate anybody who is poor...even white people who are poor. They view them as "moochers."