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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (337797)5/17/2007 10:14:37 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1576841
 
This is really similar to the late 1800s, when mining and manufacturing companies would bring in immigrant groups or freed slaves who would take lower wages than "white" Americans and then play the whites and the immigrants off of each other to pay the lowest wages possible.

Is this really analogous? Were these immigrant groups in this country illegally? Were American cities getting inundated with people living ten to a one bedroom? Legal immigrants lived in slums during the turn of the century but most were paying taxes and not sending most of their income back to their country of origin. And don't forget that illegals are violating American law to be here.

I think its too easy to call it racism when people oppose illegal immigration. It ignores the very real problems created when illegals move to southern and western cities. And frankly, if objecting to people who pee on city streets, shoot guns into the air and could care less what happens to their neighborhood is racism, then I am guilty as charged.
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