Why do we have an immigration problem? Abortion, of course

[quaoar]

It was just a matter of time before some RW shill brought abortion into this debate. And Chuck Colson does the honors. I guess we should all be ashamed of ourselves for not birthin' more babies so Wal-Mart can hire enough greeters.

http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=2073

If you could find and deport every undocumented alien in America, you would go to the grocery store next week and find the shelves bare. Without immigrant workers, we could not harvest crops. Just as happened yesterday, service industries everywhere would be shut down. With unemployment at a five-year low of 4.7 percent and with 200,000 new jobs added to the economy last month, there is simply a shortage of workers in much of America.

< snip >


But what’s the root of the problem? Why do we have a shortage of workers? Aha, that’s the unspeakable “A” word that the elite dread the most: abortion.


The reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them: 40 million sacrificed since 1973 to the god of self-fulfillment. And Americans are barely maintaining a replacement-level birthrate of 2.1 children per woman.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I believe you can also find the R word hidden in their tirades

namely, Racism. The rwingers I read who are bemoaning the falling birth rate are talking about fewer white people of northern European stock.

[quaoar]

8. What this country needs

is a long unguarded border with Sweden.

[Vickers]

2. Can't we produce our own servant class?

:shrug:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Are migrant workers legal immigrants

or illegal?

[RagingInMiami]

6. Most are illegal

[BrklynLiberal]

4. don'cha jes luv it when a plan comes together?

that kind of logic absolutely appeals to very low-level life forms.

[RagingInMiami]

5. Freakonomics argues that abortion also contributed to the drop in crime

that swept the county in the 1990s. After all, the theory states, abortion became legal in 1973, preventing hundreds if not thousands of unwanted and neglected children from coming into the world, who would have ended up bounced around from foster home to foster home before beginning a life of crime by the time they reach adulthood.

[Maat]

7. My point exactly, RagingInMiami (n/t).

[alarimer]

9. I'd like to see how they'd manage to tie gay marriage in this too

This seems like a stretch even for wingers.

Every single hate-mongering and fear-mongering meme all tied up together in nice pretty package:

"Damn all those gay Mexicans wanting to come here, get married, have abortions and take your guns"

[quaoar]

11. Wow

If they can shorten that a little bit, it would fit on a bumper sticker.

[Iris]

10. Gee, Chuck. Think much?

What an idiot.

You know this is why these people think the universities are overun with liberals - they don't understand why they can't just say anything they, even if they have no evidence to back it up.

[breakfastofchampions]

12. The idea that there aren't Americans who will do those jobs ...

The idea that there aren't Americans who will do those jobs is a big fat lie. Right now they just don't pay enough due because the employers can hire a non american do it cheaply. Raise the pay and there will be people who will do it.

[leesa]

13. I see. That's why there are 11 million unemployed US workers and 11

million undocumented workers. Maybe the problem is that Catholic Mexico doesn't allow abortions...couldn't that ALSO be the problem? I'm not serious, but it makes as much sense.