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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:40 AM Original message |
This is what I don't get when it comes to Illegal Immigratation - why are we blaming them? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because guilty people need a scapegoat. |
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Booster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. Because politicians have deep pockets and those corporations |
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Llewlladdwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. Because they're breaking the law? NT |
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TCJ70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
4. Nobody forces anyone to immigrate illegally... |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Extreme poverty forces people to seek a better life. |
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mynameiswhat (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. yes. We need to punish both parties breaking the law. |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. Because they're brown. n/t |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. +1. This is the true reason, not the other lame excuses. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's scapegoating them for what the employers are doing |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
8. In any country it's easier to go after foreigners (legal residents or not) rather than rich elites |
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stubtoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
9. Plus consider the danger of illegal crossings, and that people have to leave families behind. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
10. They love cheap labor.... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. To be honest, it seems like modern day slavery to me |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
11. It's all distraction to point fingers away from the real enemy |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. Exactly |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
15. K&R #6 for, here's my boilerplate: |
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mulsh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
16. Because the employers can't be prosecuted |
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mynameiswhat (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. If the illegals didn't come here then corporations would have to pay people |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
19. because the "powers that be" work hard to make us blame them. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. Because solidarity takes too much work. It also means that you have to admit that you have something |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-10 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. With no power comes great responsibility. |
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