How to Solve Illegal Immigration

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I found this Youtube video on illegal immigration proposing to solve the "crisis" in a novel way. Watch the video below for their proposed "solution". If you're too lazy to watch the 10 minute video, look below for a synopsis.




To lazy,eh? Well, I for one won't judge you (although God will). Basically, the solution proposed by the creators of the video was for the illegal immigrants to 1) Write a new constitution 2) Declare a new nation in the middle of the old one (i.e. the United States) and 3) Steamroll over anyone who objects. After all, isn't this pretty much what the Americans did?

I guess that the main point that I like from this video is the fact that they highlighted how the "illegal immigration crisis" is really nothing more than an effort by the rich and powerful to scapegoat certain groups to take away emphasis from their own activities. As far as I can tell, illegal immigration has a negligible effect on the U.S. and world economy, either for good or bad, compared to other things that are going on right now -- such as the war in Iraq, the 700 billion dollar bailout of Wall Street, etc. I personally see the huge emphasis that gets placed on illegal immigration as a kind of "smoke screen" to hide much deeper problems that currently exist in the world's economy and social structure.

What are some of your thoughts on the illegal immigration debate? I know that the gentleman blogger from www.whatburnsmybacon.com will say I'm crazy :)

Also, since some of you have observed that I seem to have an unhealthy obsession with putting pictures of young and often scantily clad girls at the end of my posts, I have decided to put some more pictures of animals at the end of the website. While I am sure that they'll get much less traffic from Google Image Search than the pictures of girls do, it's a better way to go.


Cute kitten bathing:

 Cute kittens in a basket:

 Cute kitten love:

Don't the pictures of cute kittens just make you all warm and gooey on the inside? I have to keep repeating "cute kittens" and terms that include "cute kittens" for the search engines.

Cute kittens :)

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Some thoughts on Racism and Illegal Immigration

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Here were some thoughts I had in response to the story link above:


All of the racists are buzzing again, just like every time a story about Mexico, illegal immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, or pretty much anyone who is "non-white" (non-pink?) gets published on the internet.

To all racists: look, we all know that you have had your golden age for the last few hundred years or so. Europe developed early technologically, they invaded a few countries, took some slaves, stole resources from others, and generally had a few good laughs. But, times are changing now. The rest of the world, especially the countries seen as "non-white", are starting to catch up now. Even in your beloved United States, Latinos, blacks, Asians, even Muslims are starting to catch up to whites in terms of population, economic status, and political power. Whites should learn to be nicer to these groups, particularly to the "illegal immigrants" (i.e. desperately poor people who come to work to avoid starvation) because these groups will be in charge in 40 years.



Look, I know that change is hard. You're so used to walking out of the door and seeing only people who look, act, and think very similar to how you do in life. However, change is coming.

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Pretty Latina Dancing:

 

Some Thoughts on Illegal Immigration

Keith B
Let me say upfront that I oppose illegal immigration. However, there are a few points that I would like to make.

1. I'm not sure why the majority of American oppose illegal immigration so fiercely. For most Americans illegal immigration is probably actually beneficial. It keeps the prices of low skill labor extremely cheap and, by extension, the price of produce, etc. Also, illegal immigrants are probably "tax neutral" when all factors are considered. While it's true that many (but not all) of them work under the table and thus don't pay income tax, they really can't avoid paying "hidden taxes", such as gas and sales tax. Also, the accounts of them abusing social programs and government welfare are, at least from my experience, extremely exaggerated. Most illegals can't get welfare because of the lack of a state I.D. As for education, in most states money for schools is mostly taken from property taxes, which illegals pay via their monthly rent.

2. Most of the opposition behind illegal immigration is Xenophobia and racism. If you can't see this, look online at the comments to any story about illegal immigration and see how many times the word "Mexican" or "Latino" is thrown around in connection with illegal immigration.

3. Illegal immigration is still wrong, however, because it a) creates a "lower" class of people inside the United States b) artificially deflates wages for the uneducated segments of the population c) is unfair to legal immigrants who jumped through all of the hoops.


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