May 1: The Power To Stop The System

[Flabbergasted]

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/3320/1/163/

WE HAVEN'T seen anything as odious and hateful as the Sensenbrenner legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1857. People should look it up--another law that asked citizens to participate in the persecution of others and the returning of escaped slaves to their former masters. HR 4437 is the culmination of state and local legislation that we have been faced with--persecution in different places for the past 10 years.

It's also the product of 10 years of hate speech on right-wing radio. The level of hate speech and hate-mongering coming from the Clear Channel and others is unprecedented.

This is also globalization coming home to roost. There is a dynamic with the economic powerhouses of Europe and North America in relation to developing countries. The powerhouses are extracting as much wealth as they can from those countries. Legal and undocumented immigration is going to continue in a structural and profound way as long as this is the case.

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Escaped slaves?

I think that's unfair ... I have sympathy for the migrants, but uncontrolled immigration depresses wages and opportunities for young people already here.

[Flabbergasted]

2. I think we're looking in the wrong direction altogether on this.....

Outsourcing Labor to SE Asia and elsewhere is a far bigger problem to the US worker....

[Saturday]

3. Both are problems. However,

I agree comparing immigrants who enter the USA illegally to slaves that were forced to come is not right.

[Fredda Weinberg]

4. Slaves were also used to depress wages

One theory for the civil war was the threat that it posed to Northern workers.