Lou Dobbs: "May Day is actually Law Day"

[blitzen]

...i guess those LA riot police showed those "illegals" the meaning of "respect for law"



http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/Dobbs.May2/index.html

Tuesday was given over to illegal aliens and their supporters to demand forgiveness for using fraudulent documents and assisting others in entering this country illegally. What a day for illegal aliens and their supporters to demand not only amnesty but also the end to immigration raids and an end to deportations.

May Day was a peculiar choice for those demonstrations, a day in many countries in which international socialism is celebrated and a reminder of those old Soviet Union military parades.

It was also an unfortunate and ironic choice on the part of the organizers of the demonstrations. May 1 in the United States is actually Law Day, a day first established by President Eisenhower in 1958 and ultimately codified into law in 1961 at the beginning of John F. Kennedy's administration. The purpose of Law Day is to give all Americans an opportunity to reflect on our legal heritage, and by statute, encourages "the cultivation of the respect for law that is so vital to the democratic way of life."

[NNN0LHI]

1. Whatever happened to Lou's wife who got caught trying to get on a plane after 911 with a loaded gun?

I wonder if the laws applied to her very much?

Don

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Corporatists have been trying to take May 1st away from the workers

for decades, and just because Eisenhower calls it Law Day or * calls it Loyalty Day, it doesn't change that fact that it is acknowleged around the world as a celebration of labor - which makes it all the more appropriate for the undocumented workers who come here to WORK. They don't come here to get on welfare or scam the system. They are here trying to put food on their families.

Immigrant rights IS workers' rights.

[1776Forever]

3. WORK? Where will the wages go to if we continue to allow open boarders?

First let me say that I am the Mom of 2 Iraqi War vets who would like to see the War end soon! I also am a woman who took her step-daughter and son-in-law, who had come from Mexico for a better life, to get married and then helped him to acquire his U.S. citizenship papers in the late 1970's.

Now after saying this, I would like to put this out for discussion:

What is the best way to involve all the people to gain the quality of life we all cherish here for everyone who is in this country now - legally or illegally? Is it to, as some in my own family say, just open the boarders up and let everyone who wants to come in? OR would it be more prudent and SAFE to allow us to keep our sovereignty and bring in and keep those who can be taken care of with healthcare, good wages, and a middle-class quality of lifestyle - while working for better quality of life in their own countries? I say the latter is the best way to approach this because we are seeing this quality of life in medical care and other ways deteriorating for us here in the U.S. everyday.

The U.S. Truckers are concerned about the Mexican trucks coming across our boarders and a lot of them are actually calling Bush the Furher and discussing his goal of a North American Union. Who would rule this North American Union? Who would be the BIG winner in this Union? Big corporations would have more cheap labor and slave tactics would be growing. What can we do? I say combine the efforts of all involved! If we don't it is going to get scary and I don't want to be on the road when this happens! I believe there are some who say they are for those that want the same quality of life we have established here that are just undermining the very essence of the argument! Take the idiots out of this and put the true priorities for everyone in the forefront!

:grouphug:

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. We don't have open borders. We have intentionally pourous

closed borders.

Open borders would allow anybody who was not specifically restricted to cross the borders with full documentation. Meaning, the very few who are criminals would not get work visas while the majority can get the work they find. Since they will no longer be 'undocumented' they will not subvert the prevailing wages because they will be able to not be threated with deportation if they don't accept sub-standard wages. In fact, they'd be able to strengthen the unions and, with international cooperation between unions, would strengthen the power of workers who remain south of the border, providing further disincentive for immigration.

Truly open borders will, in itself, reduce immigration because if workers can come and go at will they will not 'go underground', nor will they import their families if they know they can leave to visit them and return again. Additionally, the border patrols will KNOW that anyone trying to cross illegally is up to no good - that they are, indeed, criminals rather than desperately poor people looking for work. As it is, with one drug smuggler for every 1000 job hunters our resources are being terribly diluted.

If you think this won't work, look at Florida. It has, effectively, an open border policy for Cubans. Any Cuban refugee who gets to shore is automatically granted assylum, IOW, documented. The Cuban refugee population has created a vibrant society of taxpaying citizens in S Florida. At the same time, the Haitian refugees remain undocumented and are pushed into a criminal underworld because of it.

It is not a matter of drawing 'skilled workers'. Skills are easy to learn, if the worker is given the opportunity to learn them. Besides, drawing off skilled workers from other countries does us no good because it undermines the strength of the other nations' economy, reducing it, as in the case of Mexico, to a two-tiered society of the wealthy and the hopeless. When that happens, the hopeless look for somewhere better - like here.

Lady Liberty doesn't say "send us your comfortable, your middle-class - your lucky few who win the immigration lottery". She says "send us your tired, your poor, your teeming masses, yearning to breathe free..." Those who we would exclude are exactly the people we once were, when WE immigrated.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Just another "Brown Bogeyman Day" for lovable Lou.

[depakid]

6. And here I thought it was Beltane...

Silly me. Only 3,000 years of Celtic tradition....