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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16260)	9/3/2007 8:46:56 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > you're mixing up two different issues here, namely, mass immigration of (illegal) Hispanics who seek to work in the US AND Mexican (long-haul) truck drivers who drive across the US-Mexico border legally. Same story, different day. > Of course, the latter are resented as unfair competitors by their US (unionized) fellow truck-drivers... So, I wouldn't call them "racists" but, more accurately, "corporacists" since they basically want to secure their jobs and salaries from cheaper Mexican competitors. As you wish, but the sentiment is the same. Either they don't want the wetbacks to crawl under the fence and they don't want the trucks to encroach on their "territitory". But in both cases it is the US government which turns a blind eye and is is the American worker/Teamster/truck-owner who objects. The point of my argument is that the American worker/Teamster/truck-owner is the "terrorist" in the eyes of the US government and not the Mexican. You say it is the Mexicans who are the "terrorists" -- yes, in the eyes of the American workers/Teamsters/truck-owners they are, but not in the eyes of the US government which represents, not the workers/Teamsters/truck-owners, but the vested interests and big business.