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Originally Posted by JC
Why? Do we really have a problem? They provide cheap labor for jobs that most Americans don't want to do. If you ask me there are real problems that the government needs to be worried about before some BS political pandering to trailer park rednecks about immigration. How about some health care reform? Maybe deal with our deficit? The poor state of education? Seems like there are lots of important things taking a backseat to something that's not even a problem.
I saw that too, I always like it when he's a guest. Seems like a really intelligent man.
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X1000
Immigration reform sounds like a red herring for the Bush administration to give us something to talk about other than their tremendous failures in foreign policy, the deficit, healthcare, and nation building.
I mean, why else would this issue suddenly pop up out of nowhere? It's not like illegal immigration is a real problem for most of the country, it's really only a local problem for CA and TX mostly. But it's pretty easy to look good in front of middle America when you make is sound like there are all these dirty illegals spilling over the border into the country, "oh noes, there's so many of 'em it's not long before they overrun your Iowan corn fields!!". So after scaring people this doesn't really concern (the same people that voted for Bush last election), you come down hard and tough on the manufactured situation and look like a bad-ass problem solver.
I don't buy it.