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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what I don't want?  I don't want gangs of hungry, jobless, desperate people accosting me on the street looking for a handout and possibly threatening worse.  I don't want a shantytown where my neighborhood park used to be. I don't want our country to lose its intellectual capital to foreigners because our own population isn't well-educated enough to compete in the global economy.  That's why I'm happy to pay taxes, even if they go to priorities that don't benefit me directly.

Why are conservatives so totally myopic about this stuff?[/quote]

But yet you want to legalize all illegal migrants in the US and not penalize the businesses who hire them and accept (economic) refugees.[/quote]

Where did the PP say that?

I am not the PP. I do want to legalize SOME of the people who came here illegally. Not all of them, but I think that figuring out a way to naturalize people who have been here for a long time, working, is preferable to deporting them en masse. I thought the DREAM Act was a good idea. I thought Obama's plan was generally good as well, though immigration is not one of my hot-button issues so I don't know the ins and outs as well as others.

I do think that businesses who hire undocumented workers should be stiffly penalized. I realize that in real time, that is likely to harm the livelihoods of the undocumented employees, but this problem is propped up by corporations who do not want to pay decent wages or permit collective bargaining. It is nothing short of exploitative to hire workers who will not complain about you for fear of getting deported and then fire them or call ICE when they're no longer useful or getting too uppity.

If your views are not myopic and you find it offensive that someone would say so, maybe practice what you preach.[/quote]

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