These morons, just like some leftist labor movement idiots who believe the bullshit these people and NumbersUSA propagate, need to realize that alienating people who could very well be your ally in demanding higher wages is counter-productive to any progress in giving fair wages to laborers.
Instead of encouraging undocumented workers to help fight an inequitable system that disproportionately favors white males, they choose to create further divisions among minority groups/groups who are at a disadvantage in society by vilifying people who are just as much victims as they are in a deeply entrenched classist system.
Instead of blaming the true source of inequity, the corporatist, crony capitalist system we have in place, they choose to blame people who are otherwise without clout, people with whom they can join forces to fight inequity.
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Sorry, I'm just sick of this bullshit. I read/hear it from so-called progressives and civil rights activists all the time, and I'm finding it hard these days to identify with a political ideology with members who are just as ignorant as their right-wing counterparts when it comes to immigration issues.
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I've always found it ironic that many black groups don't support immigration rights. You'd think if one group would understand what it's like to live without any rights and want freedom like everybody else it would be them, but then again, kicking the ladder once you get yours is a fine American Tradition. Just ask your cousins with a Green Card who are against immigration reform.
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Exactly...sometimes, it's people who have suffered the most injustices who become the most prejudiced.
There are some idiots in the Filipino-American community, for example, who are totally against CIR and even the DREAM Act even though they benefited from the 1986 amnesty law, which was far more liberal than what is currently being proposed. Fucking hypocrites.