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[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Ok, so we all know illegal immigrants are taking our jobs. So if you are out of work an/or unemployed, here's your chance to take away a job from an illegal immigrant.

http://takeourjobs.org/

This is pure genius. The right should like this because it will allow all those wallowing in the generosity of unemployment to find jobs. The left should like it because it is a program of the Communist United Farm Workers Union.

So here is my question: Do you know anybody who has signed up? I would ask this group personally, but if you were a farm worker, you would not have time to read this community because you'd be working 12 hours a day without overtime and would not have wi-fi access.

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[policraticus.livejournal.com]

Not for nothing, but do you know how many illegal immigrants have quit their jobs at my business because I don't work them 12 hours a day and insist on paying them overtime?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

What are you doing hiring illegal immigrants?
They're illegal. Or are you in favor of amnesty for them?

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

Attempting to run a successful business.

I am in favor of expanding legal immigration, but not in favor of amnesty.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Curious.

Think of it...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

... as like the drug dealer who favors legalization, but doesn't want his competition to be let out of prison.

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

It seems like the most just solution to the problem. Securing the borders while relaxing immigration standards in tandem allows folks who actually want to become American citizens to go home and then return to start afresh as legal immigrants. We keep control over the process of immigration and assimilation, they get access to opportunity, liberty etc. without having to live in the shadows or on the margins. Win/win.

It will never happen, of course. Not enough opportunity to demagogue the issue from either side.