--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim wrote: > > It is the money hogs that foster this anger towards > > the illegals, so that no one looks at the money hogs > > instead. Its a shell game which most of the country > > falls for, again and again. > > > So, Jim, you're paying a "shell game" with your money. > You do buy food right? And you don't want to pay higher > prices for your produce, right? So, you're playing > a shell game and supporting the illegal aliens by > purchasing cheap food harvested by illegal aliens. > > If the unemployment rate is over 4% now, and the minimum > wage is being raised, why don't the unemployed Americans > get a job harvesting and managing food sources and displace > the illegal aliens? That way, there would be zero unemployed, > zero illegal aliens, and everyone could afford their own > health insurance. > > Or, you could grow your own food instead of supporting the > multinational grocery chains. > > What do you think? > I was making the point above that if you watch the media closely, in general it protects large corporations and government programs from dedicated and focused scrutiny. The focus with the illegal immigration issue is always on the illegal immigrants and it focuses a lot of anger on them. If on the other hand, we put as little enforcement on the businesses that hire them as we do catching illegal immigrants at the border, and backed it up with stiff fines and/or jail terms, the illegal immigration problem would go away overnight; no demand, no supply.
It is not a mistake that I said "as little enforcement" above, because although we spend more resources to catch and deport illegal immigrants at the Mexican border, it is still and always will be a pathetically impotent effort, designed more for show than effect. It is the shadow policy of every administration to continue illiegal immigration because of the profits raked in by those who exploit the situation. It is a shadow policy of every administration to create a permanent underclass to keep profits high. The official perspective is different, though, and pretty much just empty words. As the expression goes, bad policy starts at the top. Begin to look at those behind the curtain. Whole lotta maya goin' on.
