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[Ya-ta Boy]

In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expects to deport about 400,000 people this fiscal year, nearly 10 percent above the Bush administration's 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. The pace of company audits has roughly quadrupled since President George W. Bush's final year in office.

"Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen."
(John Prine...Hello In There)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWFPLjYEaw&feature=related

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are filed in their creosote dumps
They're flying 'em back to the Mexico border
To take all their money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, farewell Roselita
Adios mes amigos, Jesus e Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees
My father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
(Woodie Guthrie, 1948)

It's way past time that something was done about this situation. We cannot forever import cheap desperate labor just to keep food prices down and wages down.

[ZIFA]

So that'll be 40.000 less unemployed americans.

[Italy37612]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Kinda disappointed no one responded to my immigration reform post.

We have to figure out a way to get food from the fields to the dinner table without importing desperate people who we don't want and don't give any basic rights to. It's kinda crass to say on the one hand that 'all people are born with certain unalienable rights' and then amend the idea that if your grandpa was an Indian from Mexico, those rights don't apply.

I realize that when I was a kid it was a white man's government and that's the way it was meant to be. Then we weakened and allowed the non-white to vote, but that was only supposed to ease the pressure; it wasn't supposed to allow the non-whites into power. Lordy no. Now we have one of them in the White House.

The ruling capitalist class has screwed up. They want immigrants to come in so they can break the unions and force workers to work at low wages, but they sure as heck don't want to give the non-white folks the vote and the power. What to do? Keep expecting the GOP to rave about securing the border. Keep expecting the GOP to work toward breaking the unions. Keep expecting the GOP to push voter registration suppression laws. It isn't really about the color of their servants, although that makes it easier.