The number one supporters of "illegal immigration" = corporations & international financiers

[Hannah Bell]

like the ones who destroyed Mexico's economy back in the time of the peso crisis, drying up jobs & independent livelihoods in Mexico & impoverishing people;

like the ones who are presently putting eastern europe into penury, unleashing floods of economic refugees;

like the ones sponsoring the wars in the middle east, somalia, congo & elsewhere, forcing people to flee their homes to escape the violence & destruction;

like corps such as tyson, agricprocessors & others who drove down decent wages & benefits in the meatpacking industry & actively recruited low-wage "illegals," in some case paying a price per head;

like the capitalists behind most of the mass movements of population in this century & the last, they destroy people's livelihoods, homes, family relations, in the interest of their fat profits.

and every time those workers aren't profitable anymore, after the corps have sucked all the profits they can from their latest bubble, they turn on the workers they themselves brought in, calling for the public to scapegoat them as causes of the disaster wrought by the capitalists themselves.

history is clear on this; it's a pattern that accompanies every boom & bust: chinese & irish railroad labor being the most familiar US example.

[Oregone]

1. Theyd be just as happy with a legal guest worker program

A big pool of legal low wage laborers to chew up and spit the fuck out, without benefits or any ability to stay after laboring.

[nomorenomore08]

2. Precisely. Supporting the status quo is "supporting illegal immigration."

Because, under current economic conditions, people aren't going to stop coming here no matter what draconian measures are taken.

The only solution, of course, is to "legalize" them, no matter how much nervous white folks piss and moan about it.

[Oregone]

3. The debate doesn't stop there

Some want to legalize them as temporary, low-wage, second-class humans that only visit to work.

Others want hard-working, law-abiding laborers to have an ability to immigrate and be more than cheap dispensable labor

[nomorenomore08]

4. By "legalizing" I meant making them eligible for legal residency, and later on, citizenship.

Anything less would be just as bad as the status quo.